Posted on 05/26/2015 5:03:59 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Paula Cooper, a Gary native who at age 16 was the youngest death row inmate in the United States before an international outcry helped reduce her sentence, killed herself Tuesday near an Indianapolis office building.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said officers were called to the 9500 block of Angola Court, near the northwest Indianapolis-Carmel border, Tuesday morning in response to a report of a body lying near a tree.
The Marion County coroner's office confirmed that Cooper, 45, was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:38 a.m. Indianapolis time from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
Cooper's death comes 30 years and 12 days after she and three friends murdered Ruth Pelke, a 78-year-old Gary Bible school teacher, in Pelke's Glen Park home.
According to records, the teenagers pretended to be interested in taking part in Pelke's Bible classes to get into the house where Cooper, then 15, ultimately stabbed Pelke 33 times with a butcher knife.
She and the other girls, all students at Gary's Lew Wallace High School, then ransacked the house and got away with $10 and Pelke's car
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She carried out what the liberals would not allow our justice system to do.
“From death row to freedom, ... “
I guess she never found freedom .... at least not in her mind.
So the sentence was carried out then,
'Bout how long it would take to carry out a death sentence.
Only we were spared the editorials and protests and riots and the rolling over of yet another cowardly judge.
lol!
Doubt it. Sounds more like guilt was eating at her constantly, but she would not go to the One who could clean the guilt. Took matters into her own hands ala Judas.
Obviously not.
Well, you've heard of Obama phones, maybe this was an Obama gun. 😎
Please,don’t give that SOB any new ideas.
Some would consider the outcome almost poetic justice.
Even still, if such a brutal murderer just had to be released after a shortened sentence, it probably didn’t help her to be put back into the same Indiana neighborhood where it all started. There are likely many residents still there who vividly remember the 33 stabbings tragedy.
Maybe Cooper realized her reputation was lower than whale sh*t, already due to history. Now, walking around looking for a job was not going to be easy either. Luckily, not all black criminals get the exalted “Gentle Giant” treatment, where any dumb thing you did against the law is instantly forgiven by the hood.
The video in this article made before her release offers some insight.
Seems her life was in prison ... where she should have stayed.
If she had faced the death penalty 30 years ago, she could have gone to the chair (or whatever) repentant and at peace. Apparently she never found peace in all those years in prison.
I have always thought that JPII’s focus on the death penalty has accomplished little but providing cover for pro-abortion Catholics, giving them a stick to beat pro-lifers with.
What JPII actually said in Evangelium Vitae didn’t change the Church’s moral teaching that capital punishment can be morally licit.
Justice has been served.
Do you remember Karla Faye Tucker?
One last murder
The investigative channel did a deadly women program on this muder...these girls were sociopaths.
LOL, well, how do you expect these poor, respectable downtrodden people to get their guns? What better way to pass a background check, then to not go through one in the first place? 😆 I have been on death row at San Quentin. The vast majority of them either die of old age, or suicide.
May God have mercy on her soul.
He should have been more concerned with her soul than her life. What does the church say about suicide?
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