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What in the hell is a death sentence if it is never carried out? This guy was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982 for killing a man and now his number is up and the state says hes to old to die? WTF.. why have the death penalty if it takes 20 + years to execute someone. Why should we feed this SOB for 20years .. why not kill him the day of judgement.. 
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Viva Nash, 93, is the oldest prisoner on Death Row in America.
Gabriel Falcon
AC360° Writer
Viva Nash has the dubious distinction of being the oldest prisoner on Death Row in America. The double murderer is 93. He has spent virtually his entire adult life behind bars. But is he too old to be executed?
Many believe he deserves to die for the brutal crime he committed on November 3, 1982. On that day, Nash walked into a coin shop in Arizona and demanded money.
The employees had no idea the armed robber was a fugitive from justice. Three weeks before, Nash had escaped from a Utah prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder.
At the coin shop, Nash pointed a .357 Colt Trooper at Greggory West and fired three rounds into the clerk, killing him. He was arrested a short time later.
He was tried, convicted, and on June 27, 1983, sentenced to death. 26-years later, Nash remains confined in a single-man cell. He is one of 116 men confined to Death Row in the Browning Unit at the Eyman Arizona state prison complex.
Nash, who was born in 1915, is treated like other condemned prisoners. He has no contact with visitors or other prisoners, is allowed two brief telephone calls a week, and , except for 2-hours of outdoor exercise, is locked up 22-hours a day inside an 86 square foot cell.
No execution date has been set for Nash. But should one? And should it be legal to put an elderly inmate to death?
Here’s what CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said:
“The Supreme Court has said that juvenile offenders can’t be executed. The Justices have never addressed whether one can be too old to be executed. The only check here, really, is political - does a governor want to authorize the execution of someone who is so old?”
What do you think?
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Viva Nash, 93, is the oldest prisoner on Death Row in America.
Gabriel Falcon
AC360° Writer
Viva Nash has the dubious distinction of being the oldest prisoner on Death Row in America. The double murderer is 93. He has spent virtually his entire adult life behind bars. But is he too old to be executed?
Many believe he deserves to die for the brutal crime he committed on November 3, 1982. On that day, Nash walked into a coin shop in Arizona and demanded money.
The employees had no idea the armed robber was a fugitive from justice. Three weeks before, Nash had escaped from a Utah prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder.
At the coin shop, Nash pointed a .357 Colt Trooper at Greggory West and fired three rounds into the clerk, killing him. He was arrested a short time later.
He was tried, convicted, and on June 27, 1983, sentenced to death. 26-years later, Nash remains confined in a single-man cell. He is one of 116 men confined to Death Row in the Browning Unit at the Eyman Arizona state prison complex.
Nash, who was born in 1915, is treated like other condemned prisoners. He has no contact with visitors or other prisoners, is allowed two brief telephone calls a week, and , except for 2-hours of outdoor exercise, is locked up 22-hours a day inside an 86 square foot cell.
No execution date has been set for Nash. But should one? And should it be legal to put an elderly inmate to death?
Here’s what CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said:
“The Supreme Court has said that juvenile offenders can’t be executed. The Justices have never addressed whether one can be too old to be executed. The only check here, really, is political - does a governor want to authorize the execution of someone who is so old?”
What do you think?
