Posted on 09/16/2022 10:50:17 AM PDT by grundle
My biggest objection to the death penalty has always been that the person might be innocent.
But here’s a video, from Tupelo, Mississippi, that shows a robber shooting a store employee in the head, after the employee had already handed over the money:
Here’s an article explaining that the guy has been arrested, and charged with capital murder. He could face the death penalty:
I hope this guy gets executed.
And I hope it doesn’t take decades.
I hope his execution happens before the end of this year.
Agree. Why should taxpayers give this guy one more day of life?
In Stephen King’s The Stand, he has an extended passage about how America finally woke up and established rapid executions for cases like this where there was never really any doubt about guilt, but as far as I know no legislator has ever had the wit (or the courage) to propose such changes to a state’s criminal law.
Well he is eligible for the death penalty now, given the charges.
But yes, even though he’s on video executing the clerk it will take decades until his date with sparky because of ma racisms.
Why don’t you hope for a pony and a billion dollars too? That is about as likely to happen as swift justice.
I have an even more fundamental question, why have a trial? Just a hearing will do and one bullet without fanfare.
It takes long enough to the DA’s, prosecutors, lawyers et al, long enough to make bank and ensure their job security.
I still think fondly of Ron White’s comedy about Texas putting in an express lane for death row.
But no worries, the former extreme Left that isn’t extreme to the Left anymore will stop being concerned about due process when they start beheading Christians and those who will not take the MotB. Just as they currently think nothing about letting people rot in jails without trial over J6 for political advantage.
WARNING: The video linked is extremely disturbing and may make you sick to your stomach. I’m not kidding.
Because...lawyers. Defense attorneys will do anything to get grounds for an appeal. And once that is done, it’s off to the races. Hearings can be delayed for any number of reasons. Scheduling obfuscated. And then there are the judges. We all know what goes on there.
Appealing capital murder verdicts is the Lawyers full-employment act.
In the initial trial the taxpayers foot the bill for public defenders to defend the defendent.
Then the taxpayers foot the bill as public defenders appeal the death sentence to the appeals courts and then the state supreme court.
and if they lose appeals in the state court, then taxpayers foot the bill to try appealing the case in the federal system at times.
So that is why it is the way it is.
In the old days, the ACLU would challenge every death sentence at one end and liberal judges and the Warren Court would knock them down at the other. That’s why movies like Death Wish appeared.
They finally approved lethal injections as a “humane” way to execute these monsters and then wouldn’t do that most of the time. The libs got people to automatically desire long prison sentences for the vilest crimes.
Copeland was free on MDOC probation at the time of his arrest on Sunday and had an outstanding warrant.
When they shoot the right (wrong?) person it doesn’t take long at all.
A death sentence means a longer life than a cancer diagnosis. Too many people in line to virtue signal between the sentence and the execution.
“Why does it take decades to execute someone when there is video evidence that they are guilty?”
That low quality video is not much help. It identifies a concealed gunman that could be any one of millions of people.
I presume they had other evidence. If so they should carry out swift justice.
But to your point ... that specific video evidence by itself doesn’t prove much.
Part of the lawyers’ guaranteed income plan.
Because we protect the innocent that are charged. If a mistake is made, as has happened many times, a person falsely accused of murder can be set free as long as they were not executed.
We don’t want to go to a system where an innocent person is executed and society says, oh well, that is the price of society. That is the way it is in China.
“My biggest objection to the death penalty has always been that the person might be innocent.”
I agree. I also agree that the shooter in the video should be executed without delay.
Are you sure the guy who got arrested is the shooter in the video?
Video evidence is not what it used to be.
Deep Fakes are a thing that exist today.
It would still take decades.
Daniel Cruz, the Parkland shooter, confessed. Open and close right? “The murderer confessed. String him up, boys! That tree over there will do!”
Nope. Right now they’re arguing all sorts of mitigating circumstances, like diminished capacity because his mom drank while she carried him.
Personally, I would discard all that - I don’t care how drunk, drugged, stupid, retarded, abused, etc., the perp is, string him - AND HIS ACCESSORIES - up. Let ‘em ride the lightening. Blow ‘em out the airlock.
But, for some reason, that is not how the law works.
Because they all look alike? /s?
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