The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to issue an execution warrant for a man who has been on death row since 1985 for raping and suffocating a 13-year-old girl in Tempe.
The high court on Tuesday granted prosecutors' motion to order the execution of 56-year-old Donald Edward Beaty.
The court has not set Beaty's execution date, but court spokeswoman Jennifer Liewer says it must happen in the next 35 to 60 days under Arizona law.
Beaty's attorneys had argued that the court shouldn't order his execution because of lingering questions about a controversial lethal injection drug.
They argued that the sedative sodium thiopental was illegally obtained and unregulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Slabside posted at 3:11 pm on Tue, Apr 19, 2011.
"The sedative sodium thiopental was illegally obtained and unregulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration"
This has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard. OK, so toss his carcass into the old standby gas chamber and spin the valve. It's still too good for him.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 3:56 pm on Tue, Apr 19, 2011.
THE A.C.L.U., THE LIBERALS, THE PROGRESSIVES AND THE DEMOCRATS WORRIED MORE ABOUT A CONVICTED MURDERER AND RAPIST THAN THE ......VICTIM'S RIGHT TO BE AVENGED.
Thinkabout it posted at 3:59 pm on Wed, Apr 20, 2011.
This rapist and murder sat un AZ prison costing AZ taxpayers Hundreds of thousands of dollars for the last 26 years!!! SERIOUSLY???!!!
That poor girl would have been 39 years old - how fair is that??? He's been kept alive after he used her in a most horrendous way and killed her!
He should have been shot years ago!
Thank you Liberals for using my tax dollars to keep him alive instead!