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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