Posted on 07/29/2025 5:11:44 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Hell No! Next
So why are globe artichokes $2.79 apiece at Walmart? I’d eat them every day if my bank account could handle it. Italian style they are the best.
Reminds me of Saddam Hussein and dealing with his handler after the Iraqi war. Saddam always appeared with his Koran. I will bet he never read it and only did that for appearance.
So except for that .5% who will harm us immediately, we can expect not to be harmed by the others for three whole years? That doesn't sound like much of a deal, actually.
In my traditional Choctaw tradition, a killer was expected to be killed in a public place by a close kinsman. This penalty was imposed on even unintentional killings or accidents.
There are good descriptions of this from the 1800’s, the last such “execution” taking place in Indian Territory in the mostly civilized 1880’s (if I remember correctly). The condemed man was given months to get his affairs in order and was free to wander the Territory in that time. But, on a date certain, he was expected to present himself. His kinsman (usually a beloved cousin or uncle) would walk up to him, visit a moment, and when the condemed was ready, he would hold a firearm next to his heart and fire one deadly shot.
It was unheard of for the condemed man to leave the Territory or otherwise fail in his duty to show up. If he ran, a blood feud would ensue because the original victim’s family would be due a “life for a life.” Any person in the condemed’s family would do as payment, men, women, wives, or children, but only one andno more.
I think we see a remnant of the blood feud mentality in Chicago gangland killings today.
Agree...NO!
Where did my paragraphing go? I swear, I used paragraphs with line-spacing in the original post. Sorry for the run-on appearance above.
He got his second chance when he did not receive the death penalty.
Look at murderer Tex Watson’s web site. He refuses parole so that people won’t think his conversion was to get out of jail. He was in Manson’s gang and killed Sharon Tate.
https://www.aboundinglove.org/
The victims will never have a second chance
Oh my goodness, I read this as “He confessed to killing 21....”
Shows how bad Cali really has become, that I thought that was plausible!
Too lazy to read this, they are paroling cop killers in Crazy Messed Up NY State, so maybe this guy can be paroled.
Just glad 20 hypothetical people are still alive and not murdered!
I am familiar with him, and I certainly respect and admire that he appears to have genuinely found Christ.
The world is a small place.
My younger sister lived in a commune in New Hampshire up at the Canadian Border back in the Seventies or early eighties. They had no plumbing, electricity or heating (they were squatting on some guy’s land and he let them) and one of the people who lived up there with her was Linda Kasabian, the woman who turned state’s witness.
She said she was pretty normal.
So, we can move him in with you?
I went to his page; from what is available to read, the man seems genuinely contrite and repentant for his crimes. Does not mean I would EVER want him freed ... and it seems he agrees with that sentiment.
No, this guy should have been shot between the eyes the minute he was found guilty in a court of law. If he confessed, then all the more so. It’s far better treatment than he gave his victim.
Kind of like clintoon and his bible...
What’s with all the misguided “release murderers” stance? When they die in prison, they will be “released”.
Don’t be such a hard hearted a-hole. Cons get second chances all the time. Likely the guy only got half-assed representation from a public defender when a decent lawyer would have gotten a deal where he would already be out of prison. And you know it.
Or is that a no because you are willing to put other people at risk but not yourself?
And sorry but when it come to murder, rape and such, no, no second chances.
You may wail and whine about how that is "hardhearted" and I will not care. Because the goal is to keep as many people from being raped and murdered as possible. Not to put innocent people at risk for your "I'm a GOOD person" unearned dopamine hit.
You want that go help your neighbor clean his yard or teach people to read or something.
Do not do it by promoting things that put others at risk.
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