re: Louisiana has secured supply of lethal injection drug, corrections official says

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I wonder why they just can’t use fentanyl?

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I wonder the same thing.

A. Fentanyl is so deadly if you touch it without gloves you may die and we are overrun with it.

B. We can't find any drugs to execute prisoners on death row.

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Who do I advocate for? When I say that the government should not be able to execute its citizens, which of your personal emotions do you inject into those words?

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Don't play stupid. Everytime a state takes an action against a prisoner you are on here pouting about it. You have grumbled about them actually having to perform work. You have grumbled about the conditions, you have grumbled about, well in this thread as well, prison violence.

Here is the person you are now sad that will be executed. Todd Wessinger. What did ole Todd get in a bit of a rascality over one night? Well ole Todd shot three people, killing David Breakwell and Stephanie Guzzardo, at a Baton Rouge restaurant.

Here is a picture of Stephanie Guzzardo. Burn it into your brain:


You know what she didn't get? Multiple appeals. More time.

Here is a take from the victim's family. Since I'm sure you haven't considered their take on it.

Here is a published take from the father of that victim. Read this too, since I'm sure you haven't considered their take.

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My daughter, Stephanie Guzzardo, was cornered in a 6-by-6 foot office. She was on the phone with 911 after hearing one of her employees being shot in the back and left for dead on the floor just outside the office door. Wessinger went into her office and demanded money. After she had given him the money, and while she begged for her life, he shot and killed her. The last few minutes of her precious life were terrifying. On his way out, he shot and killed another employee.

He was found guilty and sentenced to death.

For 21 years, appeals have gone before appellate courts, the Louisiana Supreme Court and all the way to the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court reviewed all appeals and ruled eight to one against Wessinger, upholding his conviction and death sentence.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has turned his back on our daughter and has done all that he can to stop the execution. He has voluntarily placed a moratorium on the death penalty until July 2019.

Edwards states that we cannot get the drug necessary to carry out the execution. Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio and Virginia have all found a substitute. I don’t know where our governor or the head of the Department of Corrections, James Leblanc, stand on the intelligence scale, but surely they aren’t completely outclassed by the leaders of all those states. No, I suspect a lack of zeal for carrying out the laws of the state of Louisiana.

would never want a person executed if the evidence was questionable. Time after time, Wessinger was proven guilty, through every appeal, over and over and over and beyond any doubt — for more than 20 years.

Edwards ran on the platform of transparency and justice. Where is our daughter’s justice?

Answer one simple question, Governor: Are you for or are you against the death penalty? You have been asked several times and can’t bring yourself to answer yes or no.

I have never met or communicated with Attorney General Jeff Landry, but I certainly appreciated him calling the governor out on behalf of all the victims of the men on death row. Looks like the attorney general is the one concerned with justice, the law, and what’s right for those who can no longer speak for themselves.

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Todd got over a quarter century to beg for his life. Stephane got a couple seconds. Ole Todd got multiple appeals over many years and was denied. Stephanie got one, for a few seconds, and was denied.

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What does this have to do with me or anything I've said?

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Ummmm.. you asked what victims I advocate for. I just gave you an answer. Question -> Answer.

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I did advocate for limited government power there, too. I'm pretty consistent.

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Lucky for you, the judicial branch of state government does to. What's the status of that litigation to this point?

And it's pure irony in its purest form you are complaining about the dollar amount spent for maintaining capital punishment in the state of LA... and it's costs close to the same that the city of New Orleans is eliminating, per the mayor, in the next fiscal cycle from the elimination of that office you were on here wanting to remain.

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And it's pure irony in its purest form you are complaining about the dollar amount spent for maintaining capital punishment in the state of LA... and it's costs close to the same that the city of New Orleans is eliminating, per the mayor, in the next fiscal cycle from the elimination of that office you were on here wanting to remain.

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No, it's hypocrisy. Just like how she is an advocate for food stamps, welfare, and school provided meals when school is not in session. Nevermind the double dip with food stamps and welfare.

So, if you ask her, "so you do care about wasteful taxpayer spending", and you bring up her hypocrisy, the reply is then, "no not THAT taxpayer spending".

Your mind is so broken

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I am waiting on the mental gymnastics to tell me how its racial or something.

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Oh she absolutely ignores that question. It's way too inconvenient. It's been asked in several other of her threads and she acts like it's not there.

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What are politicians responsible for if not serving their constituents? Enriching themselves only?

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Representing the people. Meaning, you vote for what i tell you to vote for. But, more importantly, their job should be figuring out how to remove as much government from the United States citizen. Not, how to create programs that cost tax payer dollars, that creates more bureacracy in the name of "making your life better." Has a politician ever made your life better, or have you been the one responsible for that?

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So is, to quote the governor, "New Orleans thinks they're so special."

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mmmk....what does that have to do with the subject matter?

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Don't play stupid. Everytime a state takes an action against a prisoner you are on here pouting about it.

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People convicted of crimes are sentenced across the state all day every day. How often to post about them? Inmates are injured in jails and prisons across the state probably every single day. How often do I post about that?

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Ummmm.. you asked what victims I advocate for. I just gave you an answer. Question -> Answer.

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Yes, you realized that you don't actually do what you claimed to do so you did a quick Google search and copy and pasted information about someone you didn't even know existed prior to Googling in your gotcha attempt. Good job. You clearly sincerely care about Stephanie. Your virtuousness has been signaled.

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I have done a ton of reading about various theories of justice and have spent considerable time thinking and writing about justice. I don't think criminal justice exists in the way we want it to exist

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Thanks for your input on your thought and writing.. but I hold philosophers and famous thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, Aristotle, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, etc in higher regard.

K thanks.

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Likewise you only care about punishing people through incarceration or execution

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You certainly are entitled to be against the death penalty. But your comment gives me pause. Certainly if someone commits a crime,especially a violent one you wouldn't be against incarceration/jail time would you?

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People convicted of crimes are sentenced across the state all day every day. How often to post about them? Inmates are injured in jails and prisons across the state probably every single day. How often do I post about that?

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Every time you find an article on it apparently. And then you run your gambit of deflection, red herrings, claimed ignorance, and ignoring of inconvenient replies.

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Yes, you realized that you don't actually do what you claimed to do so you did a quick Google search and copy and pasted information about someone you didn't even know existed prior to Googling in your gotcha attempt. Good job. You clearly sincerely care about Stephanie. Your virtuousness has been signaled.

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If "I didn't do what I claimed", I would have done nothing.

And you missed a TON of that post in this absolutely PATHETIC attempt at a reply. And it completely proves everyone's point. You hold victims as secondary in your quest for the plight of prisoners.