Posted on 04/11/2009 1:44:58 PM PDT by Justaham
Yes.
“Tookie” him!
“Yeah, a death sentence really doesn’t have the impact it did back when it actually was a death sentence.”
I was just recently reading about the conspirators in the Lincoln assasination, including the first woman to be executed by the US govt. Mary Suratt?
She was apprehended in April, tried in May-June, and hanged in July. Justice was swift.
>> Is it too much to ask for major publications to hire people who understand basic grammar? <<
Yeah, but maybe we should cut these young editors and writers a little slack. After all, “thanks from Hillary and I” was standard lingo from the POIUS under whom they grew up!
LOL
<How far back is that, the Old West?
Not that far. I listen to a lot of classic radio and on the ‘reality’ radio cop and FBI shows, plenty of the criminals got the death penalty. The narrators will say that so and so rec’d the death penalty and was executed 6 months later. These are shows from the 30s to the 1950s. It’s amazing sometimes to hear just how fast some of the criminals were executed. I can’t believe there was much time given to the appeals process.
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