Convicted killer Mark Asay has been executed after 30 years on death
row, marking the first time that Florida has put a white man
to death for killing a black man.
Mark Asay, 53, was convicted in 1987 of killing black man Robert Lee
Booker and Hispanic cross-dresser Robert McDowell. Since then he's been in
Florida State Prison in Raiford.
At 6pm, Asay was given three injections that would kill him,
beginning with the anesthetic etomidate, which has never before been used in an
execution. By 6.22pm he was pronounced dead. Mail.
So was execution right for this
man? - Yes.
Was the method acceptable? - Yes.
Was it a scripturally sound disposal? - Yes
Was justice served? - NO!
It is wholly unacceptable to have a man waiting thirty
years in prison to be executed.
The American system does the death penalty precious few
favours. A new system must be developed which fast tracks all
executions to well under two years. Delaying tactics by lawyers MUST
end!
