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What a waste and what a slap in the face to the legal system, a system that had operated, sentenced this murderer to death only to be thwarted by the pitiful delaying tactics of Death Penalty Opponents - A MINORITY of the US population.
These unwarranted and extended efforts at delay are a travesty for all concerned, not the least of which is the convicted man. IMO Contrary to their assertions, it is these opponents who are the real parties playing God, substituting their prejudices for the law and the will of the People and acting to the detriment of all.
Young or old, black, white, red, brown, yellow, they all fool themselves into really believing that their final fate is to sit at the foot of God, with an automatic assumption that God will allow them to.
I wonder, is that the fault of the ministers of God that sit with them in their last moments?
Can it be that the ministers of God offer them a hope of everlasting salvation, if they only confess their crimes and state that they've made a mistake?
I sometimes think some of the priests and chaplains are playing upon their own vanities and reveling in the mistaken notion that they've won another soul to God.
I don't think any of these murdering scum are truly repentant.
God will see into their hearts.
May we all be ready at any time to meet our Maker
Ping!
Reuters: Texas Man Executed for Murder Over 20 Years Ago
Corpus Christi Caller-Times: Kunkle is put to death (Final appeal delays execution 2 hours)
Careful, Appellants: Pretending you're going to execute him, then pretending you're going to let him live is considered torture these days.
"I made a mistake, and I am sorry for what I did," he said. "I love you and I will see all of you in heaven."
Now THAT's what I call positive thinking! :^D
Kudos to Texas.
Good riddance to bad garbage.
they believed jurors did not have sufficient opportunity to properly consider his history of drug and alcohol abuse as mitigating evidence
I don't get how considering he was a dope addict and an alcoholic would give him life in prison, rather than a death sentence? Sounds like BS.
So Corpus is your hometown? Ever eat at a Sheps' Chicken Shack?
No, you didn't make a mistake--you committed murder. A mistake is when you add 7 plus 8 and get 13, or when you show up at a restaurant an hour late because you remembered the wrong time, or when you say "It's between you and I" because you weren't paying attention to grammar in grade school. Murder is a different matter entirely.
He certainly had time to mellow from being an eighteen year old. Talk about ruining your life.