Saturday, March 30, 2013

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JUDGE ROBERT BEEZER [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY 24 MARCH 2013 TO SATURDAY 30 MARCH 2013]



            U.S Federal Judge, Robert Beezer died on this date, 30 March 2012, in loving memory of him, I will post the Pro Death Penalty Quote of the week from him.

QUOTE: The capital punishment opinion came in 1994, when Judge Beezer, writing for the majority in a 6-to-5 decision, said that hanging was an acceptable form of execution.

The ruling was in the case of Charles Rodman Campbell, a death row inmate who had been convicted of killing two women and a girl and who objected to the method of execution to which he had been sentenced: by hanging. He contended that hanging amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Washington State offered lethal injection as an alternative form of execution, but only if the condemned person requested it. Mr. Campbell said his religious convictions would not permit him to choose between methods.

Judge Beezer ruled that when it hanged people, the state exercised proper safeguards against slow death by strangling and other possibilities of unnecessary cruelty. “Campbell is not entitled to a painless execution, but only to one free of purposeful cruelty,” the judge wrote.

AUTHOR: Robert Renaut Beezer (born July 21, 1928, died March 30, 2012) was a United States federal judge. Born in Seattle, Washington, Beezer received a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1951 and an LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1956. He was a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Lieutenant from 1951 to 1953. He was in private practice in Seattle, Washington from 1956 to 1984, serving as a judge pro tem on the Seattle Municipal Court from 1962 to 1976. On March 2, 1984, Beezer was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated by Eugene Allen Wright. Beezer was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 27, 1984, and received his commission on March 28, 1984. He assumed senior status on July 31, 1996. Beezer died in Seattle from lung cancer on March 30, 2012, at age 83.

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