By Associated Press

Garry Thomas Allen is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, November 6.
OKLAHOMA CITY –
Members of an anti-death penalty group are calling on Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin to halt the execution of a convicted killer.

The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty will hold a rally at the state Capitol on Monday seeking to spare the life of 56-year-old Garry Thomas Allen. Allen is scheduled to be executed Tuesday.

Allen was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1986 murder of his fiance, Lawanna Gail Titsworth, in the parking lot of an Oklahoma City daycare.

Allen's attorneys say he was incompetent when he entered a guilty plea in the case and that his mental condition has continued to deteriorate, but appellate courts have rejected those claims.

A spokesman for Fallin says the governor expects the execution to proceed.

This writer commands Gov. Fallin for her stance on the death penalty. Oklahoma does not need bonafide murderers to rule the day….

It is just a shame that this will not bring back her Mother…

The Attorney General's appeal of this stay to the Supreme Court will, by all logic, prevail.

I think that Oklahomans need to demand that OK-CADP foot the bill for this judicial review.

Gov Fallin – please send the Coalition an invoice with a due date of 04/30/12…

Not I. I will always consider the victims to in, the true evidence and the defendant's culpability and lastly any mitigating factors prior to the crime NOT AFTER its commission.

There is plenty of evidence that Mr. Allen was of sound mind and volition prior and during the murder, and the mitigating factors were noncontributory in nature.

How many members of OK- CADP reached out to Ms. Titsworth family? Ms. Michalska admits she "forgot" to acknowledge Her, the co-chair did not, no other statements from the Coalition have any mention of Her and the children. .

Gov Fallin has an obligation beyond love and mercy…

You have personally attacked me thrice already. Character assassination takes focus off of a message antagonizing the very person you want to persuade. You have provided an example of something else that falls within attacking when argument becomes weak: in a previous response you quoted Lydia Polley, OK-CADP Co-Chair's plea to Gov Fallin part of which reads "Mr. Allen’s severely limited mental capacity, extreme physical & mental deterioration from a bullet fired by police…" as reason for clemency. I do not see how insinuating the police are to blame or raising police intervention for public scrutiny makes for a logical argument to Gov Fallin?

The Coalition uses every tactic to point of making misleading statements to garner public support. A better way would be to support the clemency request on the Board's vote alone – the most salient of arguments – instead of unfounded mental retardation, mental illness to God and mercy and finally implicating the police. OK-CADP, needs to rethink how it articulates their agenda.

I cite the neuropsychological information as support for clemency, i. e. mercy. It is an added factor/reason to have compassion not vengeance.

Yes. Some of my last paragraph does not pertain to Mr. Allen. They are general reasons to abolish the death penalty.

You have a strange notion that the decision of the Pardon and Parole
Board has to be unanimous. That is not the general, accepted view. Nor does a 4 to 1 vote dilute or diminish the Board's credibility. I think you are incorrectly the word credibility here.

Yes, I forgot to mention the victims here but that does not mean that neither I nor the Abolish the Death Penalty movement are not in great sympathy to them. I personally have great compassion for them and am aware that the recent legislation in Maryland to abolish the death penalty included financial support for victims' families.

"Detestable and distasteful"?? Why so harsh and rigid? In the first place you are making a rash judgement, an erroneous assumption about me. I am very concerned about the victims. I hope that you will open your heart, Mr. Rykala. Good sharing with you.
Gerri

Let us spread our love, Carolyn. all the best.
Gerri

Now let's get back to Mr. Allen: Your idea that there has to be unanimity by the Pand P is your idea not the norm. All that is needed is a majority not unanimity. There is no doubt about the P and P's credibility. The vote was 4 – 1. How is that credibility in doubt?? You seem to use that word in inappropriately here. Are you always so narrow and rigid?

The anti-death penalty people do not omit concern for the victims. You are wrong. Just because I haven't mentioned that does not mean I am not sympathetic. I most certainly am sympathetic to the victims of crime. Who could not be? Why do you make such rash assumptions?
Your use of the words detestable and distasteful show a narrow mind.