Posted on 09/24/2010 12:43:52 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
OK, the story is all over the Old Media edifice: forty-one-year-old Teresa Lewis has become "the first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years."
Every news outlet from TV and cable, to newspapers, to radio, to the Internet is using this line, this "the first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years" line. They are all playing the same narrative.
So, here's the question I have. How exactly can anyone be the "first" anything "in five years"? Doesn't the whole "in five years" presuppose that someone else came first? See, the one "five years" ago was at the very least the real first one, not the one that came today. And in this case, the real "fist" woman executed came over a hundred years ago...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
My brain hurts from just reading the excerpt.
Don’t think I’m gonna click the link.
Freshly Daid... Deservedly.
Tho I looked far and wide, I didn't notice any comments from the two murder victim's families, their friends, the prosecutor or anyone else from that side.
Funny? Maybe the paper just ran out of space??
The last one to get the death penalty needed another bumper sticker:
Equal Rights, Equal Voltage.
media echo syndrome again, so what else is new?
Sooo...if I haven’t had a drink in five years...
What’s good for the gander is also good for the goose.
I sometimes wonder, considering that they use God so shamelessly to avoid punishment, what it’s like actually facing Him and not just having to explain their actions, but the fact that they used Him to get out of being punished. Awkward I bet.
“I sometimes wonder, considering that they use God so shamelessly to avoid punishment, what it’s like actually facing Him and not just having to explain their actions, but the fact that they used Him to get out of being punished. Awkward I bet.”
Remember Carla Faye Tucker?
A truly repentant individual who was sentenced to death would respond: “I’m getting what I deserve. Let me use this precious time remaining to make amends as best I can.”
This is what comes of breaking us into “minorities” for special treatment.
I’m supposed to worry about women in society so they can murder my loved ones and not receive full punishment? Like hell. You harm my family member, you can take your special status and shove it. Goes for anyone.
Just like all the stories about “all white” or “all male” juries that supposedly negate acts of cold blooded murder.
This verbiage would imply that you DID have a drink exactly five years ago.
So you could say, after five years, that this is your SECOND drink in exactly five years...
Bottoms up!
Oh yeah, the one who murdered people with a pick ax/icepick and then started doing sign language for the death and went all Christian. The only person that people unanimously seemed happy to see die was Ted Bundy. Rightly if I may add. one thing that disgusts me is that people blamed secondarily Aileen Wuornos’ victims and not her. The biggest mistake people make is giving these killers a full platform to spout their psychosis and also, seeing Aileen spout about how the police knew it was her the whole time, made me sick.
I saw the trailer for the movie “Monster” and I was disgusted. Aileen wasn’t raped or assaulted by a client. It was made up. And go figure, people refuse to accept that she was a bad seed. Even as a child she had a violent temper that couldn’t be controlled.
Why does it matter that this murderer was a woman? I thought we were all about equal treatment for both sexes.
A real Christian who genuinely repents his or her sin and seeks forgiveness from the LORD through Jesus Christ understands that he or she must still face the earthly consequences for that sin. Under no circumstance should "belief" in Christ become a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. If this person sincerely asked Christ for forgiveness of her sins, and truly repented, she'll have no problems getting into heaven even though she is being executed for murder.
An interesting read on this subject comes from the "Son of Sam" case, particularly the conversion of David Berkowitz. Berkowitz argues that he should spend the rest of his life in prison, and actively asks for his own parole hearings to be canceled. To me, this is true belief in Christ... not some sham to be used to stoke up sympathy in people.
Berkowitz understood what he did was wrong. Reminds me of Manson’s lieutenant, “Squeaky” who has consistently refused to exercise her parole options while the real killers keep trying to get out. She never killed anyone, but still chooses to remain in jail. Meanwhile the murderers keep doing one hearing after another and Atkins tried to get compassionate release for her brain cancer.
We could always deport her to Libya. :)
But that aside, a medical parole should never be granted. Incarcerated persons can and should receive reasonable levels of medical care so that they cannot use medical reasons as an excuse to be let out of prison.
I say we execute you for being too picky about the English language.
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