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Death row inmate beats cancer

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The state parole board refused Tuesday to block the execution of a death row inmate who is dying of cancer.

Jimmy Dale Bland is to be executed June 26 for the Nov. 14, 1996, murder of 62-year-old Doyle Windle Rains 11 years ago.

He is "on the verge of death" with advanced lung cancer that has spread to his brain and his hip bone despite radiation and chemotherapy, defense attorney David Autry told the five-member Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.

Even if the 49-year-old man were not executed, doctors have said he has as little as six months to live, Autry said.

The board voted 5-0 to deny clemency. Bland chose not to address the board via videoconference from his cell at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and did not speak to board investigators before Tuesday's hearing.

"He feels at this point that all hope is lost," Autry said.

He said Bland's death sentence should be commuted out of "simple decency and mercy for a person who is terminally ill and is going to die anyway."

Assistant Attorney General Seth Branham said Bland's medical condition was not grounds for clemency, and that Bland forfeited his right to die of natural causes when he shot the victim in the back of the head.

"Cancer doesn't change what happened at that trial," Branham said.

The victim's stepdaughter, Christina Stringer, and her husband, Gary Stringer, also urged the board to deny clemency. She said Rains helped Bland and gave him a job.

"He's had enough compassion," Gary Stringer said of Bland. "He's had enough mercy. We need some justice here."

Bland spent 20 years of a 60-year sentence in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter and kidnapping charges in 1975. He had been out of prison for about a year when he was accused of shooting Rains to death.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Bland's final appeal in April.

Autry said courts had found prosecutorial misconduct in Bland's trial but that the acts were not serious enough to reverse the conviction and order a new trial.

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Roofus wrote:Jimmy Dale Bland is to be executed June 26 for the Nov. 14, 1996, murder of 62-year-old Doyle Windle Rains 11 years ago.
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Why give a death row inmate chemotherapy? The treatment isnt going to extend his life since he is going to be put to death and it would make his remaining time more painful.
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SuperMegatron wrote:Why give a death row inmate chemotherapy? The treatment isnt going to extend his life since he is going to be put to death and it would make his remaining time more painful.
I have to agree. I would say it was probably the inmate's choice though. He was probably hoping to survive it and get his death sentence dragged out another decade or two.
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Not entirely sure why but I think it's because doctors have the Hippocratic oath and they can't not treat a person unless the patient explicitly denies treatment.
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AgentGreen wrote:Not entirely sure why but I think it's because doctors have the Hippocratic oath and they can't not treat a person unless the patient's HMO decides not to pay.
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SuperMegatron wrote:Why give a death row inmate chemotherapy? The treatment isnt going to extend his life since he is going to be put to death and it would make his remaining time more painful.
Making it more painful = cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore is unconstitutional. That is why.

Granted, yes, it was probably a vast waste of money.
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BlueCrab wrote:it was probably a vast waste of money.
The cost probably depends a lot on what drugs they used, which gets into a whole other set of issues. Anyway, I think it's kind of silly to call something like this a "vast" waste of money when one minute of the Iraq occupation probably costs more than this guy's entire treatment.
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Ex-Cyber wrote:
BlueCrab wrote:it was probably a vast waste of money.
The cost probably depends a lot on what drugs they used, which gets into a whole other set of issues. Anyway, I think it's kind of silly to call something like this a "vast" waste of money when one minute of the Iraq occupation probably costs more than this guy's entire treatment.
True, that is a much larger waste of money.

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AgentGreen wrote:Not entirely sure why but I think it's because doctors have the Hippocratic oath and they can't not treat a person unless the patient explicitly denies treatment.
Anyone remember the "Terri Schiavo" controversy?? (not technically off-topic)
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