Supreme Court rules federal execution of Wesley Purkey can proceed

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The Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal execution of 68-year-old Wesley Purkey Thursday morning after a lower court judge halted his execution and ordered further evaluation of claims about Purkey's mental competency.

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The court's order grants the government's request to lift an injunction that had blocked Purkey's execution, originally scheduled for Wednesday evening. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan dissented in the 5-4 opinion.US District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued an injunction Wednesday prohibiting the federal Bureau of Prisons from going forward with Purkey's scheduled execution.

"Read More"Though he has long accepted responsibility for his crime, he no longer has a rational understanding of why the government plans to execute him," Woodman said on Wednesday."By staying Wes's execution, the court's action signals the importance of allowing him to present the extensive, available medical evidence demonstrating his incompetency to be executed."Despite the Supreme Court's order, Purkey's attorneys continue to challenge his execution.

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awesome

😂Is this for real? God help us! Stupidity is on the judges bench now too. Isn’t that why he is on death row? What does his mental capacity have to so with killing him? I can’t even digest this it is so stupid.

Good. Hurry up & get rid of the rest of the murderers on death row. Taking WAY TOO long.

Great news!

Career criminal Wesley Purkey was mentally competent to rape and murder a 16 y/o girl and then to dismember & burn her body. He was mentally competent to beat an 80 y/o woman to death with a hammer. That's sufficient mental competency for execution.

WHAT? Why? WHYT BOI committed a FELONY-MAKE HIM PAY WITH HIS LIFE! F IT! U DO IT TO W/O thinking 2 OTHR PPL!

SCOTUS seems to be on a tight schedule to get these executions done. 😳

This guy loves SenSanders

A bullet is quicker and cheaper!

Angela Merkel is a traitor to Germany and the EU

Inside his basement, Purkey raped Jennifer, stabbed her repeatedly when she tried to escape and then, using an electric chainsaw over two days, cut her body into pieces and burned her remains inside a fireplace, fueled by logs and diesel fuel.

Remember back few months when CNN said systemic racism was alive because 'African-Americans' get death penalty more than white people!!!

Well, he lived a lot longer than the person he raped and killed. Good riddance.

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It never happens to the understanding ones or their families.🍿🍿🍿

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Bring back old sparky , public hangings, guil·lo·tine.

Flip the switch and don’t shut it off till the power company shows up

Like its gonna help, his victims.

Bet if you show him the dismembered, raped girl’s body before the injection he’ll put 2 and 2 together...

Some of the people actually trying to defend this man on here is really disturbing. What he did was horrific and yall should be ashamed of yourselves.

Though he has long accepted responsibility for his crime, he no longer has a rational understanding of why the government plans to execute him Oh, simple. Just tell him he's getting some ice cream and then BAM! death needle.

Execution now!.

Another Trump win another Democrat loss!

No what he did was extremely wrong he raped her and dismembered her body he should’ve been executed the same day when they arrested him🤬

Finally some Good news. 🇺🇸

He has a right to fight for his life as hard as his victim did. She failed. So will he.

Amazing now we all of a sudden exciting prisoners? What next traitors and subversives?

....'doesn't have a rational understanding why the government plans to execute him'🤦‍♂️

American government trying to please its blood thirsty people! Just look at the comments 🤦🏻‍♀️

State sanctioned murder.

Good. The sooner the better.

An execution can't be undone if there's a mistake.

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Because there wasn't enough of humans killing humans.

Can we just let the SC do it’s work & get us back to killin FFS?

And......?

When you kill a killer-the number of killers on earth remains the same. Batman

He won’t be feeling “Purkey” for much longer.

ok

We need more of this in this country.

WTF

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Justice will be served. Thank you Scotus.

Since CNN won't tell you what he did: this man raped a 16 year old girl, killed her, then threw her dismembered body into a septic pond. He also murdered another elderly woman with a hammer. My sympathy for this man is less than zero.

add this to realDonaldTrump dumpy 🤡 kill count

That so-called christian religious, pro-life ALL LIVES MATTER crowd ABSOLUTELY LOVES and strongly supports executions.

Talk about a DeathPanel

Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor , Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan that opposed the execution ironically are also pro abortion ....u cant make up this shit

Time to clean death row and allow these families to heal once and for all.

Does mental competency matter in federal execution? Why? Wasn't that considered during the judging of the case?

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Any person that would intentionally kill another person definitely have mental problems.

Christians are so weird

Meanwhile on corona: Here is India vs China: India = all foam no beer.

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