Posted on 06/06/2016 10:33:31 AM PDT by imardmd1
The killer read his Bible. He drank. Heavily. It was a fall night in 2006, when Bradley Waldroup walked out of his rural trailer in southeastern Tennessee, carrying his .22 caliber hunting rifle. His estranged wife and her friend, Leslie Bradshaw, had just pulled up to drop off the Waldroups four children. Waldroup began arguing with his wife and Bradshaw, who was unloading the car. Drawing his gun, Waldroup shot Bradshaw eight times, killing her. He used a knife to cut her head open.
He then chased his wife with the knife and a machete, managing to slice off one of her pinkies before dragging her into the trailer. . . . Miraculously, his wife managed to slip his grasp and escape.
Three years later, in a county court, Waldroup admitted the whole thing. He said he had snapped. Im not proud of none of it, he told the judge. Convicted of felony murder, he faced the death penalty.
To save his life, his legal team took an unusual approach, never before admitted in a capital-murder case. They sent a sample of Waldroups blood to the molecular genetics lab at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Lab techs there were told to look at a specific gene. Sure enough, they found Waldroup had a genetic variant on his X chromosome, one that coded the enzyme monoamine oxidase-A (MAOA).
Jurors ruled out the death penalty for killer Bradley Waldroup after lawyers argued a gene variant helped predispose him to violence.
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Is there a genetic link among serial killers like Ted Bundy, mass murderers like Adam Lanza, and roadside shooters like the Uber driver, Jason Dalton, who police charged with killing six people in a random rampage in Michigan this past February?
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
I am sure he just killed her friend. /S/
Reading between the lines.
Skinny jeans make me want to kill. Does that count?
Yep, it’s in our nature. Cain proved that. The rest of it is pretty silly. It’s amazing where their thinking leads without a basis in the truth of the Bible.
“.22 caliber hunting rifle”
Squirrels?
The jury was fooled by a large impressive sounding word. I guess if they’d proved he had cyclic AMP or a sulfur containing amino acid they’d come to the same conclusion. I know of researchers that have more bullshit in them than a West Texas feedlot.
Yep, started with Leopold and Loeb and went downhill from there, including commie pinko lawyers who love Darwin when it suits and hate him when it doesn’t.
If they are too tight I really get tense.
Assertion without evidence or against evidence, not the best contribution to reasonable discussion.
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Good of you to mention that....
Inflammatory assertion without evidence or against evidence; insinuating a situation not contained in the article: these are not the best contributions to reasonable discussion.
Don't get me wrong. It's not that you shouldn't speculate. We all do that. But it would have been a more acceptable reflection of your own "observation on life and the human experience" if you had lead off by saying something like, "There is nothing in the above article to suggest the murdered woman had it coming because she was an aggressive lesbian homewrecker, but I wonder if...."
Personal observation of dealing with criminals for decades.
It’s just that I have seen this dynamic played out over and over; It should be a sitcom plot or something: Female home wrecker who destroys a marriage so as to get her fun friend back.
As an aside, I do not use the word “bitch”, well, ever. I think it’s demeaning.
In this case it is the person’s actual title, kinda like how I have a friend who’s title is “loveable rogue” and my neighbor’s title is “leftist tool”.
I’m sure he had deoxy nucleotides as well.
Can’t be his fault.
Would Popular Science have felt safe in asking this question, if theyd had a less politically-correct example to provide?
No.
But that is not important right now.
It will take the next Judge, the next Lawyer and their degenerate client to advance this concept to yet another group of morally bankrupt jurors to break the P.C. lock.
This case and Popular Science have simply provided them the keys.
These Liberals will be more than happy to defend violent “Minorities” when their defense is that, “It’s not their fault”, it’s in their genes.
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