A driver who deliberately ran down and killed a NY state trooper while he was standing outside his patrol car during a traffic stop cannot be executed because New York no longer has the death penalty
Almond Upton, 60, of Melrose, Florida was driving his pickup truck to visit his mother in Connecticut. He was going along Interstate 81 on Thursday in the vicinity of Binghamton, NY, when he sideswiped two cars. He proceeded on until he spotted State Trooper Christopher Skinner, 42, standing outside his patrol car during a traffic stop. Upton deliberately swerved into the emergency lane to strike Trooper Skinner, instantly killing the 13-year veteran and father of two teenage children. Upton also sideswiped the car Skinner had stopped. He drove on a short ways before abandoning his truck and bolting into some woods. He was found hiding naked about an hour later with the help of a police tracking dog.
Upton was charged with murder and is being held without bail. The arresting officers say that Upton did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The sorry-ass scumbag readily admitted he intentionally ran down the trooper, but he did not give the police a motive for his unconscionable act.
Upton is just one more poster boy for the death penalty. Unfortunately he cannot be executed because the liberals in New York saw fit to do away with the death penalty.
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