Indiana executes convicted killer (quarter century on death row for killing a couple plus 2 kids)

Associated Press ^ | Mar. 10, 2005 | TOM COYNE

[Former Military Chick]

Frankly I thought comment #9 was a bit, well rude. I to had not problem understand the originating comment.

It is early, perhaps coffee might help.

[muawiyah]

I understood you perfectly well. The problem is we've had judges tinkering around with these death sentences for multiple murderers. There was a thread here just a couple of weeks ago about an infamous case where the judge simply turned the guy loose even though he confessed to doing several execution style shootings.

We've got to start removing these judges, or the killers, sooner!

[Publius6961]

Indiana paid for 27,375 meals too many.

Not necessarily a bad thing; in my perfect world, every one of them would have been tofu and bean sprouts...

...as I endorsed above, "cruel and unusual" punishment.

[Former Military Chick]

Hey if the death penalty were designed for just one person Davis would be the man. He makes me physically ill.

I cannot understand why it takes so long to have justice administered. I understand it intellectually but not on the personal level.

The pain the loved ones must feel of the victim ... it cannot be be calculated.

[layman]

"I hope everyone can find peace with this," Wallace said

I don't know about anyone else, but I find a tremendous amount of peace with this.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Java Ahmed ?

[Osage Orange]

The guy should have gotten life...in 1976.

I'd like to see the parole boards, and judges....held liable for people like this.

Of course that will never happen....Lawyers make the rules, lawyers rule the world.

[Publius6961]

We've got to start removing these judges, or the killers, sooner!

I think we agree more than not. But I'll take tiny pleasure in whatever we might get, (short of turning them loose!).

[stbdside]

That POS flipped the bird to the victim's family after the
guilty verdict was read. I remember seeing that on TV years ago.

[Paulus]

Perhaps

[Kenton]

Here's another way to look at it. He got to spend the last 25 years of his life in prison. Then he got death.

This fits in perfectly to my way of measuring if justice is done.

I believe that a penalty should have two elements to it.

1. Restitution - restoring the victims to their previous condition at the offender's expense, or if this isn't possible (as in the case of murder) making the offender suffer an equal degree of loss. In this case, that's the death penalty part.

2. Punishment for the crime, in addition to the above. 25 years in the slammer before the death penalty is implemented.

Now, if he was sentenced to 25 years THEN death, I don't suppose the sentence would stand. But in this case it worked out that way.

He finally got what was coming to him, he spent the last 25 years of his life knowing that that was his fate, the only thing he had to look forward to in his life.

That's justice.

[monday]

"Having faced the "possibility" of premature death, I can appreciate the natural initial panic that results, and in the case of condemned prisoners, must continue, day in... and day out... for months... then years..."

I agree. A quick death would be merciful in comparison. Imagine being stuck in line at the DMV office for eternity, your fate totally at the whim of government bureaucrats. It would be hell on earth.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

"The guy should have gotten life...in 1976."

Yes, but we can't be mean to evil anymore.

We have to understand it, empathize with it, counsel it, mutually understand it, reflect it, evaluate it, facilitate it, be open minded about it, and of course tolerate it.

I'm with you. We need to eradicate it.

[Osage Orange]

That's justice

I'd guess your take would be different...if he had murdered your brother, or your sister...and their kids.

Maybe not.....

[Kenton]

I'm not sure what you mean. The death penalty got implemented. But in addition to death he got 25 years in prison. To me, that 25 years, then death is a much greater penalty than if they'd just taken him out and executed him.

But yeah, if he'd killed members of my family, I probably wouldn't be satisfied unless I got to kill him myself.

[Osage Orange]

What I meant was...he got the "Death" penalty at the trial. It should have been implemented...within a "reasonable" amount of time. 25 years isn't reasonable...by any means.

You are assuming this guy has a working conscience.......You are assuming that he served a greater penalty..by being jailed for that long.

I'd guess he was thinking that breathing...would be better than not....for 25 years!

If your penalty is 20 years in jail, you start serving that sentence right away. The same thing should be happening with the death penalty.

FWIW-