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.
Algore is totally cereal about Deep Fakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPOc9Y7niZE
I am concerned that our government has become too corrupt to be trusted with the death penalty. Only a matter of time before its used on political opponents! Rapid trial and execution anyone?
My guess is a lot of those don’t have a video tape showing the guy murdering the victim.
We need to follow the rule by Dean Martin in ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO in which he said after arresting a man....
“Lock him up. We’ll hang him tomorrow right after the trial.”
Attorneys make lots and lots of money for all of the appeals.
Execution? Nah, the guy is now dead and the flow of money is cut off.
The arrested the perp in just four hours, so most likely he had the gun and his polka dot pants and some blood spatters still on, ripe for collection as evidence.
The fact that he (and others before him) will ride the system for so much time and $$ made me at one time just decide that we should get rid of the DP. Stick him away fast and call it a day.
The one thing that is compelling is that the perps always have had a fear of “Sparky,” as someone here called it, so they would operate with a smidgen of restraint. But that doesn’t seem to be the case nowadays.
Eccl. 8.11 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Same thing when Ruby shot Oswald on national TV and I watched it happen, Ruby eventually died in prison of I believe a heart attach probably from the same guy that killed Epstein, /Sarc on
That’s why the Judge Dredd comic series was a hit with the right. Imagine that, a “Judge” catches you robbing a bank, why go to court when a bullet to the head of the “perp” is needed? Immediate justice.
Due process. We treat all cases equally. Yes this one is a slam dunk, but our system assumes innocence, and in death penalty cases continues to try to assume innocence multiple times, through appeals, until finally tired of trying. Then you still have the bureaucracy to deal with.
Defense: it was someone who looked like him.
Videos can be faked or doctored. Once it is proven that the evidence is not fake or edited, kill the b@$t@rd$.
... and Ron White’s added comment that “if you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. That’s our policy.” Got a big applause with that one.
Court system raking in taxpayers money.
The 6th Amendment is dead.
My sister was murdered by a serial killer here in California in 1977. He was caught within 1 month of her death. Three years later he was convicted on over 20 charges of kidnapping, rape and murder. He was among the last to be executed in this state in 1999. For 22 long years my family waited for justice as the case drug on from one appeal to the next. At a class reunion I asked a classmate that was a District Attorney but uninvolved with the case why it took so long. He said that capitol offenses required defense attorneys certified to practice in both State and Federal Court systems and that there were too few qualified to do so. Throw in all of the aforementioned reasons above and it becomes an intolerable situation that destroys families as it did mine.
Lawyers make a lot of money…
If there is no doubt the trial should be in two weeks…and then an appeal another couple of weeks…and a public hanging in a week….
Some lawyers do make a lot of money. Govt lawyers have an unlimited access to money and resources such as clerks etc. and whatever else is needed to force a ruling in their favor. Govt agencies get federal money based on employed personnel and grubbing for cases and causes to latch to their budgets. The more hired help, the larger the govt money.
Bingo! It is all about the process and the billable hours and not the destination.
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