Some Americans have a limitless capacity for exaggeration. Right-wing Conservative Christian radio commentator Rick Wiles compared America to East Germany and said he feared pastors would be locked up into captivity, tortured, and “taken away in the middle of the night.”
He said all of this freely while on the radio.
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WARNING: The above video is graphic and violent.
Video by MrMikesMondoVideo
According to 11Alive.com, A Vietnam veteran convicted of killing a deputy from Laurens County, Georgia was executed on Tuesday.
Andrew Brannan died by lethal injection at 8:33 p.m., according to authorities.
Around 7:45 p.m., the United States Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for Brannan. Earlier on Tuesday, the Georgia Supreme Court also denied a request for a stay of execution.
According to CBS News, Brannan was convicted of shooting and killing Deputy Kyle Dinkheller during a 1998 traffic stop. Supporters of the veteran had argued that his life should have been spared because he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
A clemency hearing held Monday was 66-year-old Andrew Brannan’s last hope for escaping execution. In the end, his defense failed to convince Georgia’s Board of Pardons and Paroles that his death sentence should be commuted to life in prison, based on the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) his defense team says he suffered after his military service in the Vietnam war.
Brannan’s family was “profoundly disappointed,” according to a statement released by the family’s attorneys. While conceding that “[t]he death of Deputy Sheriff Kyle Dinkheller was a terrible tragedy,” the statement read, “Executing a 66-year old decorated Vietnam veteran with no prior criminal record who was seriously ill at the time of the crime only compounds the tragedy.”
Unfortunately, anyone who watches the video above will probably have little sympathy for Brannan.
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/01/12/brannan-parole-board-hearing/21663901/
OK, Fine. 