Posted on 11/10/2009 11:24:23 PM PST by jiveturkay
Prosecutors rested their capital murder case against Curtis Lavelle Vance, 29, after testimony from the state's deputy medical examiner, who spoke about Pressly's final moments of consciousness.
Vance, of Marianna, has pleaded not guilty to murder, rape and burglary. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. Dr. Stephen Erickson said an examination of Pressly's body after her death revealed that her face shattered "like an egg" during the attack. "I could feel crunchiness" while examining Pressly's face, he said. A photo he used showed her nose pushed to one side.
Erickson said some type of object likely was used during the attack — the butt of a pistol or perhaps some type of club.
Pressly, the co-host of a morning TV show who had a bit part in the President Bush biopic "W," was hit so hard that a tooth — root intact — flew to her bedroom floor. Another blow crushed bones in the middle of her face. Another shoved her jaw
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This animal should be put to death in a manner no more dignified than how commercial livestock are slaughtered.
I’ll be looking forward to his execution.
If I were a member of her family I would demand to be allowed to beat him to death with a tire iron.
Sounds good to me. Animal is the only word. The pic above looks a little funny - wonder if he has some fetal alcohol syndrome or something going on. (Don’t tell his lawyers.)
Livestock refers to animals. He falls somewhere below that.
He looks like a typical slack jawed low grade moron. His only use is batting practice.
I'd like to retract my post. The death penalty is surely justified here. However, how we implement it speaks to how WE value human life, and the dignity that we place upon it - even if the low-life scum perp places none.
Let a just society find that he is not fit to live among us, nor even live among our prison population. But then let the method of execution speak to the fact it's a just punishment, and not an opportunity for us to lower ourselves to his scummy level.
It’s not about “lower ourselves to his scummy level”, it’s about delivering justice on behalf of his victim!
Where I'm coming from on that post was looking at my own earlier writing, and realizing that it crossed from justice way over into vengeance. Justice is our department down here on the ground. Vengeance is the Lord's.
The perp is filth, but human filth. Dispose of him, but properly, as a good human-life respecting culture should.
But thats only my non PC opinion.
He should next be duped into sitting in the electric "recliner" down the hall from his Death Row cell to watch the football game. I call dibs on pulling the switch!
The Original ‘BarcoLounger’!
Man, that this is garish (is it even real), such a serious purpose deserves a little craftsmanship.
Looks like a Sparkolounger.
Wouldn’t be a racist, would he?
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I would like to commend you on your retraction, your last comments indicate that you have given the matter serious consideration. The death penalty should be a remedy for someone who has forfeited his right to life by depriving others of theirs.
The death penalty has become capricious and justice is far from swift... we need to do a much better job of administering it. The administration of justice is not perfect (it sometime snares innocent people) but that can’t be an excuse for not administering it... that is a far worse transgression.
i’m so glad there is no truth to the black man on white women violent crime myth. the one where black men are 2000 times more likely to rape a white woman than a white man is to rape a black woman
just some random violence that had no racial component at all...
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