Wife: US official accused in Chile has Alzheimer's

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Wife: US official accused in Chile has Alzheimer's
Associated Press | Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 6:55 pm |

An ex-U.S. Navy officer named in a Chilean extradition request tied to the 1973 execution of two Americans during the Pinochet dictatorship has Alzheimer's and is living in a U.S. nursing home, his wife said Thursday.

Patricia Davis told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from her Florida home that her husband, former U.S. Navy Capt. Ray E. Davis, "doesn't open his eyes. He doesn't speak. ... He doesn't recognize me. I don't count anniversaries anymore."

She refused to say which nursing home he is living in.

Davis noted her husband previously denied charges that he was involved in the killing of journalist Charles Horman and student Frank Teruggi, both U.S. citizens. Horman's plight was dramatized in the Academy Award-winning 1983 film "Missing."

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/wife-us-official-accused-in-chile-has-alzheimer-s/article_b2c49bc1-30e1-5bda-aaed-55b77294e441.html

[mike_c]

1. justice delayed...

...is justice denied.

[enough]

3. That is right. (nt)

[enough]

2. Alz wipes out everything, our innocence and our guilt. (nt)

[McCamy Taylor]

4. They execute retarded people in the US. Why can't Chile try someone with Alzheimer's?

It's a double standard because he is American.

[Mopar151]

5. If'n he wuz in Chili, Texas

They'd fry him right quick. The guy's a friggin' vegetable, it seems kinda pointless to subpeona him - though his current state qualifies him to be appointed counsel in a capital case in Texas.

[msanthrope]

7. Um, no. They don't. Not for a decade. Try to keep up. Atkins v. Virginia. nt

[No Elephants]

15. Keep up? LOL!

As I am sure you are aware, people with low IQs have been executed since the 2002 Atkins decision In fact, a jury later ruled that Atkins himself was intelligent enough for execution. (A court did prevent his execution, though.)

Key fact:

"The {Atkins} Court, however, left it to individual states to make the difficult decision regarding what determines mental retardation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_v._Virginia

[jwirr]

8. yes.

[pitohui]

11. why should they offer a stone killer this mercy?

i had a relative kept alive on machines w. no brain for 20 years

but we should send a mass murderer to chili to be tried and executed?

it don't pay to live a good life, the punishment for being a decent person is endless misery without hope

IF this guy truly has alzheimer's, execution would be a mercy and is what i wish for myself if i get it but i won't be able to get a legal kind death because i'm not a mass murderer

there's something v. wrong w. this world

hell do we even know if they HAVE the death penalty in chile? to "jail" someone w. no brain is a joke, they don't know where they are or why, the hospital bed is the same hell of "what's going on here and why is no one feeding me?" as anyplace else

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. The U.S. (Nixon's government) is responsible for SO MANY DEATHS!

Every time the U.S. does 'regime change' of a country, innocents die. The U.S. has so much blood on its hands for funding regime change with OUR money, training military and para-military to topple govts elsewhere, promoting torture and murder, all to benefit the mega-rich business people in the U.S.

It sickens me.

[jwirr]

9. Especially when we are practicing disaster capitalism Milton Friedman

style. Which is what was happening in this case.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

10. Yup. That's exactly what it is, disaster capitalism. With ignoramuses believing the lies nt

[plumbob]

12. So no evidence for Alz, just her "word"?

Tell him to say hi to Kenny Boy and Osama for me!

[provis99]

13. "She refused to say which nursing home he is living in."

sounds like she's reliable; nope, she wouldn't lie to cover up for her evil husband, would she?

[No Elephants]

16. And she gets away with that, why?

How can you refer to him as evil? After all, she pointed out that he denied the charges.

:sarcasm:

[dipsydoodle]

14. In fairness

if he not aware of anything then it should be ok to just Fedex him down to Chile. :sarcasm: