GOP State Senator: ‘Torture’ Then Deliver ‘Death Penalty’ To Boston Bombing Suspect

Greg Ball, a Republican state senator from New York, literally seven minutes after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, was captured last night, sent out a tweet advocating for his torture.

Torture is prohibited by the United Nations Convention Against Torture, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the Geneva Conventions, and even U.S. law makes evidence obtained while a suspect is being tortured inadmissible.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a United States citizen and (assuming he is guilty) committed acts of terror on U.S. soil.

So, scum bag #2 in custody. Who wouldn’t use torture on this punk to save more lives?

— Greg Ball (@ball4ny) April 20, 2013

 

Ball’s tweet elicited dozens upon dozens of responses, all, if not almost all, wholly in the negative:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Undeterred, Senator Ball then took to his elected office, and issued a press release advocating for the death penalty of the suspected bomber and “renewed his call for the reinstatement of the death penalty for terrorists and in those cases involving the intentional murder of a police officer, peace officer or an employee of the Department of Correctional Services.”

Regular readers remember Senator Ball as the tease who padded his contact list by suggesting he was open to suggestion on same-sex marriage and might vote for equality in the New York Senate if he got enough responses via social media.

He then voted against the 2011 bill, which passed anyway.

Later, Ball was accused of, as The New Civil Rights Movement reported, attempting to offer his vote in favor of Governor Cuomo’s same-sex marriage equality bill for a promise from former Republican vice-president Dick Cheney to help Ball campaign come re-election time, according to a report in The New York Times.

“It was a brazen request, gay marriage advocates thought,” The New York Times reported:

Senator Greg Ball, a Republican, told them that if he voted to legalize same-sex marriage, he wanted assurances that national Republican leaders would campaign for him.

His top choice: former Vice President Dick Cheney.

New York state senator Greg Ball, paragon of ethics.

 

Hat tip: Talking Points Memo