Reginald Carr Jonathan Carr
Posted on 01/20/2016 9:14:28 AM PST by TroutStalker
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Kansas officials who want to execute two brothers who were involved in a brutal mass killing known as the “Wichita Massacre.â€
The court ruled 8 to 1 that the Kansas Supreme Court was wrong to have overturned the death sentences of Reginald and Jonathan Carr for crimes that Justice Antonin Scalia described as including acts of “almost inconceivable cruelty and depravity.â€
The justices were reviewing two issues from the Kansas court’s decision: whether the jury received inadequate instructions on how to weigh evidence that might lead it to show mercy, and whether the men should have had separate sentencing trials.
The answer to both was no, Scalia wrote.
[Justices appear skeptical at reversal of Wichita murderers’ death sentences]
The notorious case shocked the state in 2000. The brothers’ crime spree culminated in rape, robbery, forcing the victims to engage in sexual intercourse and the execution-style shooting of three men and two women. One woman survived when a bullet was deflected by her hair clip.
Even with such gruesome details, a jury contemplating whether to impose the death penalty must weigh aggravating circumstances — which must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt by prosecutors — with mitigating factors offered by the defense, such as a troubled childhood or personality disorder.
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Reginald Carr Jonathan Carr
Agreed, but the court is readying itself to side with fairy boy over immigration.
Ah yes. Another black one white crime that was covered up by the media. Here’s another.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007099.html
On not one. Damn typos.
Good
I understand there are legal issues at stake here, and in that respect, its good...
but in the particulars of this case, I don’t think it matters. Kansas hasn’t executed anyone in 50 years. In Kansas a death sentence is really a life sentence.
Everyone remember the deafening chorus of outrage from the national News Cartel over this heinous atrocity? Yeah, me neither.
Just another reason to loathe and despise presstipukes.
Good. Now fry the evil scum.
Let it be known this was NOT a hate crime.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the lone dissenter. She said the court should not have accepted the case. “I worry that cases like these prevent states from serving as necessary laboratories for experimenting with how best to guarantee defendants a fair trial,†she wrote.
Oh, that’s rich coming from her.
I Remember this one. Justice delayed is justice denied. It has taken this long?
If you already have, thank you.
I don’t think that the state has any choice now. The Supreme Court said that the order to execute is valid. I had a friend who in other respects is quite liberal, argue with me that I should support the death penalty. I told him that I would have to picture myself pushing the button in any particular case. I could push this button.
The Kansas court was feeling its oats when it decided this. Only done to troll Republicans. Now its going to bite back.
Yep. Even BTK didn’t get a DP sentence, and there are some who come out of the same prison saying that BTK has a pretty cushy life..something he wasn’t supposed to have. They say he has his own tv AND his own computer. EX cons can be huge liars, but they really resent the privileges this horrible man gets.
The Carr Bros. were big news locally. Not nationally, but locally.
good
There will be other appeals. The death penalty was re-instated in 1994...no executions yet. On inmate has been there for 20 years now.
“...whether the jury received inadequate instructions on how to weigh evidence that might lead it to show mercy...”
Mercy? What could have POSSIBLY happened during the trial to grant mercy?
Anyone else sick-n-tired of the abuse and tortured reasoning the govt (in this case, the Courts) tramples upon We the People?
I don’t know about others, but *I’m* quite capable of being presented to by defender/prosecutor and making an informed decision.
It is ALSO our Right, as a Citizen, to judge the Law itself.
Course, one whiff of any possible Constitutionalist/jury nullification and you’re out of the pool. Can’t have anyone giving ideas to the sheep in their little fiefdoms.
I, for one, hope it’s not long before the plunger/button is pushed/rope stretches/ready-aim-fire shouted/etc.
Agreed. They are demons.
The only comparable behaviors come from ISIS.
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