That indicates clear sadistic tendencies, and a complete unfitness for the position of a public prosecutor who must not only get convictions, but to be fair to criminal defendants.
I also wrote about opportunists in public office who have used, or are using the death penalty for personal gain.
People I wrote about is the former Philadelphia District Attorney and then Chief Judge of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ronald Castille who obtained the death penalty against the victim of sexual abuse that lasted for years since he was 13, and who killed his abuser when he turned 18. Prosecutor/Judge Castille not only obtained the conviction and death penalty by fraud, but then, when became a judge, refused to recuse from the defendant's habeas corpus petitions 4 TIMES, reinstated his death penalty in 2012 and issued a separate concurring opinion blasting federal defenders representing Terrance Williams for doing their job.
Another opportunist who is getting political capital on the death penalty is Texas Bell County DA Henry Garza.
Henry Garza is currently prosecuting Marvin Louis Guy, the person who shot a police officer as a home invader, not knowing that the armed person who was climbing into his window at night during an unannounced was a police officer.
At the same time, Henry Garza is running for his 5th term as Bell County DA, a position that currently pays $140,000 a year, and is the Chairman and former President of the National District Attorneys' Association.
Henry Garza is capitalizing not only on seeking the death of an innocent person who exercised his right to self-defense in his own home, but, by doing that and not prosecuting those who have sent the police officer to his sure death, he is making sure that similar - completely unnecessary - raids against pot-growers will happen in the future, and will cost more lives to police officers, more lives to criminal defendants, and millions of dollars to taxpayers.
Now there is also a report that the Dallas County DA (Texas, a death penalty state) suffered a THIRD mental health setback and was hospitalized into a psychiatric hospital.
The DA was hospitalized a month ago for depression, now she is hospitalized for "mood disorders".
A person who needs repeated psychiatric hospitalizations, especially those for "mood disorders", has an unlimited discretion to seek death penalty against people?
But - you know what is most interesting?
The news reports says that the reporters allegedly spoke to "mood-disordered" DA's potential opponents in a re-election, and the opponents said that they will NOT make the issue of the DA's mental condition "an issue" in their election campaign.
WHY?
Does political correctness trump people's RIGHT TO LIFE?
And, is it possible that the Dallas DA's mood swings and/or depression are the direct results of the responsibility that humans should not have, to "play God" and hold decisions to seek a government-controlled murder against other people.
A lot is being said about why the death penalty should be abolished.
About mistakes, racism, ineffective assistance of counsel, police and prosecutorial misconduct.
Yet, more and more comes to light as to personalities of prosecutors:
- sadists;
- political opportunists using the death penalty for personal gain, for the advancement of their career;
- mentally ill individuals with mood swings.
Such people should not handle life-and-death decisions.
Yet, with the "mood-disorder" DA, the issue of her mental illness came to life only because she needed to be away from the office, she needed repeated hospitalizations.
That means that, for a while, she was handling her mental illness issues on the job, possibly while handling death penalty cases.
Opportunists can be figured out through conflicts of interest, sometimes years later.
Prosecutors with mental health issues, from sadism to mood disorders, may never be figured out because, short of hospitalization, their records are private.
The only "safe" way to deal with it is to abolish the death penalty.
Otherwise, you may be allowing a secret psychopathic sadist during one of his/her mood swings to make the decision to seek or not to seek the death penalty.
And - when people's lives are at stake, political correctness should be damned and prosecutors' mental health issues should be made the front and center issues in whether to remove such a prosecutor by any means - public demand for resignation, impeachment, discipline or reelection.
And the same refers to opportunist prosecutors.
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