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Mississippi executed Dale Leo Bishop, 34, by lethal injection this past Wednesday for his participation in the claw hammer murder of one of his friends.
This is the kicker. Bishop had filed appeals and injunctions against the death penalty saying it was cruel and unusual punishment. He fought hard against his day of reckoning. I don't get this guy. How cruel and unusual did he think it was for his victim's family that their murdered son was unrecognizable from hammer blows to the head?
All Bishop's appeals were denied and he was put to death--but he did one right thing. As he lay strapped to the execution gurney, he apologized to the family of Marcus James Gentry, saying it was a senseless crime, a needless act.
No doubt the apology was scant consolation for the Gentry family. But it was better than no acknowledgment of all the pain he had caused with this one horrendous act.
(As you may guess, I am a proponent of the death penalty.) Susil
