US Uncut: "She (Hillary) and Her Husband Traveled First Class to Execute A Black Man"

[amborin]

She and her husband traveled first-class to execute a black man with an IQ level of 70”

Mark is referring to Ricky Ray Rector, whom Clinton executed just before the New Hampshire primary in 1992. Rector had committed two murders, then shot himself in the head, causing permanent brain damage. A judge then ordered Rector to stand trial despite his mental condition.

A Yale professor studying the case wrote about how Rector honestly believed he would live to be able to vote for Clinton in the November elections:

That afternoon, after Clinton had refused all final entreaties for clemency, Rector sat with one of his attorneys watching, on a TV outside his cell, news reports of his impending execution, two hours away, intermingled with accounts of Clinton’s travail over the Flowers charges, and he abruptly announced, in a thick mumble, “I’m gonna vote for him, Gonna vote for Clinton.” It had always been his habit to put aside his dessert until bedtime, and after eating his last meal, of steak and fried chicken in gravy, with cherry Kool-Aid, he carefully set aside his helping of pecan pie, to finish later. One of his attorneys had earlier stated that Rector “thinks he’ll be back in his cell on Saturday morning.”

http://usuncut.com/politics/savage-hillary-takedown/

[morningfog]

1. Un fucking forgivable.

[Peregrine Took]

53. Wildly ambitious monsters both of them. n/t

[Punkingal]

2. i remember that...the pie thing just killed my soul.

[tk2kewl]

14. .

[840high]

17. ..+1

[boobooday]

3. Just one reason

I was campaigning for Jerry Brown that year.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. Likewise.

Jerry was my choice as well.

[DiehardLiberal]

4. I'm just sick reading this.

[berni_mccoy]

5. WOW. I had not heard that one before. FUCK!

[geek tragedy]

6. truly sickening, but it wasn't Hillary who made that decision nt

[Arazi]

11. Hillary supports the death penalty

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/28/hillary-clinton-comes-out-against-abolishing-the-death-penalty/?_r=0

[Hell Hath No Fury]

12. No, but she COULD have --

changed his mind on the issue if she really wanted to. I truly believe that. But, they both had their sights on future political races, races where they felt they had to gain some "toughness" cred, prove they weren't typical "bleeding heart liberals" (cause those SUCK, you know) to get votes.

[beam me up scottie]

7. Putting Ricky to death was unconscionable.

He was a child in a man's body, he had no idea they were going to kill him. I'm opposed to the death penalty in all cases but executing a mentally handicapped individual is much more barbaric than the crimes Ricky committed.

[frylock]

8. They seem like a nice couple.

[elehhhhna]

65. Bless their hearts.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. I remember that as if it were yesterday...

Disgusting. The whole pie thing haunts me to this very day. The whole nasty thing was the final nail in the coffin for me and the death penalty.

Bill and Hillary -- neoliberal Dems trying to prove to voters they were as bloodthirsty as the GOPers. Same bullshit as the IWR vote -- Hillary had to prove she was just as "tough" as W.

I am DONE with that bullshit.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

20. You and me both... the Clintons have no heart, no soul.

[MisterP]

21. that's the downside of the New Party--they figure that if half the country votes Dem and half Pub,

they should win over Pubs by killing as many as they can, to show they're tough and disciplinarian

[farleftlib]

22. Me too, and I couldn't give him a pass

but I gave him my vote -- twice.

[Hoppy]

47. Her Iraq war vote was also to prove her macho cred.

[speaktruthtopower]

13. Low blow...

even if factually correct

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Hmm how is this a low blow?

The 1990s were not precisely nice years for police and crime and the Clintons were at the center of that.

Sorry, working on a piece on mass incarceration at the moment. And when you read the statistics and now their role... "child predators" and three strike laws come to mind/

[Sophiegirl]

40. OT...

How are you and your birdie doing? Hurts to lose a pet. I know.

[jeff47]

18. So...speak truth to power, but only if power is not offended. (nt)

[speaktruthtopower]

26. I have no problem at all holding power accountable..

as long as I'm sure who did what.

I wouldn't fault a governor for flying first class, but conflating it with an unpleasant duty he had to attend to was a creative negative way to portray the situation.

The rest of his post I don't have a problem with.

[jeff47]

64. The truth is he did not have to attend to it.

In fact, there's plenty of precedent for a stay or commuting his sentence.

But Bill Clinton had NH to win, and needed to show just how tough on crime he was. (Didn't quite make it on NH)

[morningfog]

27. Hillary is still a death penalty proponent.

She hasn't evolved on that yet.

[Divernan]

79. Cluster bombs don't ALWAYS kill; lots of times they just maim brown kids.

And that creates a market for orthotic devices, amiright, Verne? Hillary calls that collateral profits, not collateral damage!

Guess Hillary would say that's one way to bring those super predators to heel.

[Jester Messiah]

28. It's always a "low blow" to factually recount H's history.

Kind of like it's a "gotcha" to play a Republican's words back to him verbatim.

[6chars]

30. This was Bill's work, not Hillary's

[Jester Messiah]

31. Same goes for him, and I stand by it anyway. [nt]

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. The fucking DEATH PENALTY is a low blow.

Factually correct.

[Ed Suspicious]

49. All the sports programs today were angry at the person who shined a light on Peyton Manning's sexual

assault and racism after all these years. They also thought it was a low blow because it was so long ago. I say fuck that.

[Gene Debs]

50. If it's "factually correct," how can it be a low blow? Is speaking the truth a "low blow"?

[Jenny_92808]

16. Sickening

[AzDar]

19. Sweet Baby Jeebus.

These people should be NOWHERE near the White House again...

[RATM435]

23. In this case hilary was tammy wynette and stood by her man.

[6chars]

36. interesting - she used to have a southern accent

[RATM435]

51. Hillary Clinton's accent evolution (1983–2015)

[earthside]

69. Hillary has always been Tammy Wynette.

She has always stood by her man.

[fun n serious]

24. This is misleading This is not the DU I know

I guess we allow any ol blog or news source here now and call it FACTUAL.

[6chars]

34. it was a little controversial at the time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ray_Rector#Role_in_1992_presidential_campaign

[fun n serious]

37. It wasn't Hilary as I said. nt

[6chars]

39. no controversy about that!

[fun n serious]

71. It is misleading

She traveled with her husband that is all she did.

[LiberalArkie]

41. Totally factual. Do some research before you insinuate someone is lying.

[Bonobo]

25. He literally had the power of life or death. He chose to kill.

I wonder if he talked about it with Hillary?

I wonder if it was even important enough for him to talk with Hillary about?

And if he did, what did Hillary say?

[nashville_brook]

43. they were "co-presidents" -- 'nuff said

[fun n serious]

72. Prove it please. nt

[HassleCat]

29. Capital punishment should be a litmus test for Democrats.

Anyone who supports the death penalty is not a real Democrat. Argue it any way you like, but I'm not budging on that.

[farleftlib]

35. +1

It used to be a given, Dems opposed it. Not anymore. Not only that but now they support militarization of the police and prisons and curtailment of basic civil rights.

[Kittycat]

61. And if we don't, we're the new leftist tea party.

[Arazi]

66. A sad testament to Bill Clinton's third way/triangulation policies

HRC stands to continue those fatal flaws

[TIME TO PANIC]

45. Damn straight!

[Uponthegears]

63. +1000

[jillan]

33. Pathetic especially since he had brain

Damage

[fun n serious]

38. Not at the time of the crime he didn't have brain damage.

Atkins v. Virginia, ruling that the practice constitutes cruel and unusual punishment; however, it is not clear that this ruling would have applied to Rector because his brain damage was caused by his suicide attempt after having committed the two murders for which he was convicted and then, as it turned out, executed.

[jillan]

44. But he did at the time he was being murdered

He was sitting there watching Bill on tv saying he was going to vote for him while Bill was on his way to have hum put to death. Heartbreaking

[fun n serious]

52. He made himself brain damaged and NOW..

Instead of remembering this man's victims you are USING him to push your agenda.

[jillan]

54. Oh stop it! I am not pushing any agenda. I am retelling a real incident. This wasn't a movie.

This was a dark day in America.

[farleftlib]

55. Oppposition to the death penalty

has no bearing on the victims of the perp's crime. Nobody is pro-murder and anti-victim. That is just weak.

[Uponthegears]

57. Close

Atkins dealt with intellectual disability, which, as a clinical matter, must manifest prior to the age of 18. The issue of whether he was competent to be executed turns upon his mental state at the time of execution. The USSC case on that is Panetti v Quarterman. Ricky was obviously incompetent, however a black man in Bill Clinton's Arkansas had about as much of a chance of having a court say that as he did having Bill grant clemency while he was running for president of the most bloodthirsty first world democracy on the planet.

[Ken Burch]

42. And every HRC poster is going to start doing posts that say either "no biggie"

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or "they HAD to do it to be able to beat #41".

Bill probably stopped for a Big Mac afterwards.

[John Poet]

75. AND Fries.

Fries are important.

Especially post-execution fries.

[TIME TO PANIC]

46. Sociopaths.

[noamnety]

80. I can't shake this post.

I read it last night, mentally kept coming back to it today. I know sometimes we throw posts like this out there and they don't seem to have any effect, but this one did. It hit me that it's the link between the welfare reform, the 1994 crime bill, being buddies with Kissinger, the romanticizing of that first date of crossing the picket line, viewing the war and a half a million dead children as a good business opportunity.

[TIME TO PANIC]

82. It's disgusting and indefensible. n/t

[bigtree]

48. I don't think Hillary flew anywhere for the execution. This is not supported by the facts

Bill Clinton flew HOME to Arkansas. Hillary may well have accompanied him, but the 'first-class' nonsense is over-the-top and salacious.

Making Hillary responsible for her husband's decision as Governor by pointing out she may have flown home to Arkansas from wherever she was is basically a lie. It is bogus.

[Kalidurga]

59. "I do not favor abolishing" the death penalty...she said...

That is what Hillary said not Bill. So it doesn't matter if she flew on the plane or if it was first class or coach. The fact is she isn't against the death penalty and the only fact that matters.

[Uponthegears]

67. Exactly

Hillary KNOWS what happened to Ricky Rector. She KNOWS he had the mind of a small child. She KNOWS her husband let it go forward. She knows all that and STILL she panders to the right.

Quit making excuses Hillary.

[Uponthegears]

60. You might have a point

IF Hillary stood against this barbaric relic of an uncivilized past. As it stands, she has embraced Bill's bloody deed.

[senz]

56. Speaking of Clinton victims, I recently watched Monica Lewinsky's TED talk.

Neither Clinton ever expressed an ounce of sympathy or regret for the 22 year-old intern. Hillary referred to her as a "narcissistic loony toon." The universal contempt heaped on Ms. Lewinsky broke her to the point that for many months afterward her mother kept the bathroom door open when Monica showered, fearing what she might do to herself, and sat by her bedside to help her sleep.

[arikara]

78. I always felt bad for that poor girl

I'm glad she was strong enough to find her way out of the wilderness.

[Arazi]

58. This is forgivable but proper "framing" of black issues isnt

[Uponthegears]

62. Not to further upset

anyone, but executing a man who thought he was coming back to his cell for dessert afterwards was not the only barbaric and inhuman act Bill masterminded that day. When they went to execute Ricky they couldn't find a vein so the went in without anaesthetic and made 3/4 inch plus deep slices in his thigh to cut down to the femoral vein. It was one of the bloodiest and most brutal executions of the last half of the 20th century.

[BeanMusical]

68. I am totally devastated and sick to my stomach...

[Live and Learn]

70. Disgusting. nt

[Beacool]

73. Hillary was governor of AR?

That's news to me.

[kgnu_fan]

74. ...

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

76. This is a perfect example of how both Clinton's always do what is politically expedient

Rather than what is FUCKING RIGHT. Cowards.

[Bonobo]

77. Even putting mentally disabled people to death for it. Ouch.

Not really what I'm looking for in a POTUS at this time. Thanks.

[UnBlinkingEye]

81. Sometimes I wonder

Why we call it a justice system.

[Luminous Animal]

83. Kick.