Obama is about to face the first federal death-penalty case, Politico writer Josh Gerstein reports.

QuoteThe Bureau of Prisons gave notice to a federal judge Wednesday that it intends to set an execution date for Jeffery Paul, 34. Paul was convicted in 1997 and sentenced to death for the robbery-murder of an 82-year-old retired National Park Service employee, Sherman Williams, on federal land in Hot Springs, Ark., in 1995.

Plans for the execution were disclosed by Justice Department lawyers in a lawsuit pending in Washington over federal lethal injection procedures. Several federal death row prisoners are covered by a stay entered in that suit, but Paul is not among them, since U.S. District Court Judge Richard Roberts denied Paul permission to join the case earlier this year, saying he had waited too long.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/1210/Obama_administration_readies_first_execution.html

Gerstein prominently also links to an earlier story he wrote whether Obama would exercise the death penalty at all. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23974.html 

I won't hold my breath waiting for the execution. Obama is on record for wanting the penalty applied in only the most narrow circumstances (meaning, as I see it, find the loophole and get the pardon).

Is he a registered Republican?

You'd think this would be an easy decision for a muscum. ;D

Is the convict white or black, if he is black no way Obamao will hand him over to justice.


Billy

Quote from: BILLY-bONNEY on December 24, 2010, 06:19:24 PM
Is the convict white or black, if he is black no way Obamao will hand him over to justice.


Billy

LOL, Extenuating circumstances. ;D