Meet Viva LeRoy Nash, America's Oldest Man on Death Row

Let him out at 93 I doubt hes going to hurt anyone.

Sure, let's do what Ireland did (who cares about what it would do the victim's loved ones; he didn't kill anyone we know). Just by imperial fiat, let out the poor bastard, he's too old to do "anything."

Jennifer, do you know how much strength a person needs to pull a trigger? Ask Nash, he knows.

But maybe you were being facetious. In which case, so am I.

For the record, every American woman, able* disabled, and able elderly citizen should arm themselves. Every police department should give them lessons, free of charge, in how to handle, clean and store a loaded gun. And perform a double-tap. If more criminals knew that the heretofore easy to victimize were now equalized, they'd re-think the whole criminal lifestyle thing and fast.
*Don't be silly kids, of course many "disabled" are not utterly disabled. They have suitable and sufficient function to be great with a weapon. The same with many of the elderly.

If we trusted ourselves to learn how to have a gun without treating it like a loose rattler. You're not a blithering idiot... are you? Besides, there are millions of Americans now who own guns and just quietly keep it themselves. You just don't want to admit it to yourself. Look! All those numerous, numerous law-abiding citizens *not* killing helter skelter.

We just need to trust the each other of us who obey the law and distrust the each other of us who do not.

What good to anybody can come from keeping a near-blind
94 year old man in prison? He's been incarcerated for the
last 32 years in Arizona since 1977, and before that he
was incarcerated in Connecticut for 25 years, from 1947 -
1972. This man has done 57 years total time in prisons.
No person should be locked in a cage that long. I guarantee you if a cop committed a murder, which they often do, he'd have been out 20 years ago.

I agree with Edward. You would not keep an animail locked up in a cage for such a length f time and if you did you would bereporte to an animal rights charity - why should human life be any different.
I by no means am excusing his crimes, what he did was vile and hidious and taking another human beings life in unforgivable...the state take his life, is, in my eyes, exactly the same. How does violence and homoside correct Nash's worng doings. Utimately his vistims are gone, and taking LeRoy Nash's existance is no different.
Murders have not gone down as a result of the DP.
Those who take the life of another demonstrate a sickness of mind in the same way having a cough demonstrates a sickness of body.
We and the state need to target this at the source, during the childhood of the 'criminal'.
We need to prevent these individuals, not punish.
I am not nieve enough for one minute to suggest that in doing this we would put an end to more murders, but it would lower the number. The DP does not work and this has been proven time and time over.
Nash is a 90 something year old man. He has served his time and should be taken off DR. I am not saying freed, but let him die with dignity.
And oh, alexa? We should not be traching more people how to handle and use guns. The 'right to bear arms' has caused more issues in America than it has solved.
The UK made guns illegial and the death toll decreases. Yes, gun crime and murder still exists but it has dropped.
Teaching people to use a powerful wepon is surely only going to promote more violence. The only way to stop violence is to nolonger encourage it. And, this means obliterate the DP.
I do not mean to cause offence with my opinions however I feel that on topics such as this many people are fulled by passion rather than knowledge.
And Edward, you are right...if he was a member of the law I would not be typing this right now!

So Ed and Bex require that the victims be denied the justice promised by a sentence of life for their victimizer? So, when we say "life" we should just automatically know it's a lie, a cruel joke, a mocking of the life of their loved one, wantonly taken by a murderer? So Ed and Bex value the "life" of the killer over the "life" of the murdered?

The eternal "why" questions you both pose are proof that neither of you are adults and both of you demand that someone in your family be a murder victim before you will extend your compassion and empathy to the surviving loved ones of the victim of this monster. Only fools and children forget the victims so utterly while they rush to love the killer. Only morons insist that the suffering innocent's loved ones bare their broken hearts in their presence before they'll believe the agony they endure.

Why be so insensitive and heartless to fellow humans? Oh that's right, because you're just too cowardly and nonsensical to understand the difference between killing an innocent and killing a cancer.

"Sandy" will think this post from me means I am secretly running TCR because s/he/it doesn't understand all the kind and patient explanations by Marie as to how this site posts the latest comments.

Sigh.

alexa, i am not sure that you read and/or understood the full extent of my opinion
this is made clear by the personal attacks you inappropriately make.
you know nothing of my age, background, or why i feel the way i do about the DP. many events, research and flitting backwards and forwards between the for and against DP camps has led me to my opinion. being "cowardly and nonsensical" has nothing to do with it, and besides anything else, is not true.
both your posts come from an emotional and not factual viewpoint (ans that is leaving the name calling and finger pointing out of it all).
i do not think hat we should be offering the hand of human kindness to these individuals but i stongly believe that violence only becomes more violent. ok, its a different context but we only need to look at iraq, vietnam, the world wars, ireland etc etc etc to show that equling violence with violence doesnt work.
financially life imprisonment makes more sence than being encarsarated in DR not to mention that there are things much worse than death
as i mentioned in my previous post, i DO NOT think that these "cancers" should be set free and roam the street with the likes of you and me but likewise i am strongly against murdering as a punishment
if you wish to take a sociological stance we should be helping these people from childhood. 70% of murderers exhibit behaviour from childhood that if interviened by the social and other trained professionals could be stoppedbefore it reaches the final stages
prevention is better than cure
it has been proven that death is not a deterrent. most asked on death row said that they did not even consider their punishment at time of offence. this proves that there is a breakdown in the system that needs to be revised...i am not naieve enough to assume that this would bring an end to all murder and violence in the world but ibelieve that it would lesson the percentage
anyway, if you wish to enter into an adult, factual conversation i would be more than willing to join you.
if however, and this is the option i think that you lean towards, you merely want to point fingers and call names then i havent got time for that and wish you good day.
so until next time, happy new year and happy reading

I just happened to do a little check on some of my past comments, and I couldn't help but notice Alexa's criticism
of my and Bex's opinion about freeing this 94 year old, near blind and helpless man from prison after 57 years of
incarceration. Alexa, you must be a republican I would
suggest you google the following 3 names and see 3 Chicago
citizens who were brutally murdered by the Chicago police.

1) Latanya Haggerty murder - no punishment for police
2 Robert Russ murder - no punishment for police
3) Joseph Gould murder - cop murderer sentenced to 4 years
and did about 2

Hey, Alexa, do you think cop murderes should spend the rest of their lives in jail too, or are they better than the rest of us?

Well, old LeRoy beat the executioner. He died Friday, February 12, 2010, of old age. I'm glad he died of natural
causes. The minute I read the article "Oldest man on death
row dies", I knew who they were talking about. I guess I'm
becomming sort of an expert on these old cons.

Eye for an Eye...
He should have met with the devil long ago!

I think anyone that thinks they should just let him out is crazy.Does the name lawrence singelton ring a bell with anybody?This was the old man that was a career criminal in his 80S he was released, he then lived lith a girlfriend ( a hooker I understand) and then killed her in a fit of rage.This man was in his late 80s when he did this. Do not let this man ever see the light on day. We should have put a bullet in his skull long ago.