Serial Killer Michael Ross Executed in Connecticut

FOX NEWS ^ | 5/12/05 | FOXNEWS

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

"Those poor girls."


Innocent babies. Our society has a profound responsibility to protect them, but we keep letting these subhuman parasites out on parole. Why? Why? Why?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I am not so merciful. I know it's a failing, but with I think about the kids this bag of puss harmed my heart turns to stone.

I'm not merciful at all myself when it comes to the just punishment this individual deserves. His mortal being committed a crime against men, and his mortal being gets punished by men. Fair enough.

[beaversmom]

Of course, Avila's defense team has been portraying their client as a victim of abuse

The MSNBC show right now is doing the victim thing for Michael Ross.

[FlingWingFlyer]

You got that right.

[justche]

I am in 100% support of capital punishment. I agree wholeheartedly that it's not a joking matter. I don't see any reason for rejoicing he's dead. He did horrible awful things, that if I were the parents, I don't know that I would have let the law take it's turn. With that said, he still had a soul, and I have no idea where his heart was at the end of his life--but I know that Jesus died on the cross for this guy as much as for me.

[Flux Capacitor]

----This relativistic way of explaining, albeit not the thought itself, would be what I would expect from a Duer.----

Actually, what you could expect from a DU'er would be a cheering defense of the sort of guy who would pare out his own 8 year-old daughter's eyeballs along the way to kicking, punching, and stabbing her and her 9 year-old friend to death.

DU is very simplistic in its knee-jerk habit of excusing and apologizing for the most brutal, subhuman murderers on the planet, from Michael Ross and Jerry Hobbs all the way up to Saddam Hussein. One thing I like about Free Republic is that, for the most part, we are equally simplistic concerning these festering blotches of caked-over dog snot: They KILL, therefore they DIE. Period. I'm glad Connecticut figured this simple principle out after 45 years.

Thanks for no longer breathing my air, Michael Ross. I'll be sending you a bill for the oxygen I was forced to share with you over the last 27 years, C/O Hell.

-Dan

[sageb1]

I accept your opinion. I do not accept the opinion of the individual who expressed no opinion and simply told me to "take a hike." I was for the death penalty for many years, until making a decision for myself personally. That does not mean I cannot understand or support yours. Thank you for being honest.

[sageb1]

"DU is very simplistic in its knee-jerk habit..."

And you, sir, have been knee-jerk in your response to me.

[Flux Capacitor]

Yeah, like making the DU comparison in the first place wasn't knee-jerky. Whatever; the sucker's dead.

-Dan

[Darth Republican]

"In Texas we have the death penalty, and WE USE IT! That's right! If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back! That's our policy!

"I live in Texas, and they are trying to pass a law that if more than three credible witnesses see you commit a murder, they don't put you on a 20 year waiting list...... Jack, you go right to the front of the line.

"Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... my state's trying to put in an express lane."

-- Ron White in 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour' --

[JAWs]

The victims:

Dzung Ngoc Tu, 25

Paula Perrera, 16

Tammy Williams, 17

Debra Smith Taylor, 23

Robin Stavinksy, 19

April Brunias, 14

Leslie Shelley, 14

Wendy Baribeault, 17

Courtesy of Pro-Death Penalty.com. More on these women taken from this world to slake this beast's vile appetites here.

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

The MSNBC show right now is doing the victim thing for Michael Ross.

We're all victims of something, as long as we blame others for our own problems. (I learned that from Bill and Hillary.)

[packrat35]

Not gonna lie to you you. I am gleeful and will not go to bed with a smile on my face knowing this trash has been eliminated. Hot damn-I feel good.

[packrat35]

That's NOW go to bed with a smile.

[Imaverygooddriver]

Yet another example why the death penalty isn`t a punishment and why I don`t support it. These killers don`t care if they die. What kind of punishment is being put to sleep? If it was up to me, and this may sound cruel, please don`t think me a sick sadist for suggesting it, but we should strap these killers into a seat and have them listen to a speech by Hitlery Clinton for 15 minutes. I know that is completely inhuman treatment, but these animals are killers and THIS is justice and true punsihment.

[jocon307]

Finally. The world is lighter already as hubby says.

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

glee is the last thing i feel right now. killing this insect is nothing, for he is nothing. i feel sad, not gleeful. not sad for this reptile, but sad for the innocent kids he harmed. my heart is so heavy for the victims, the perpetrator's death brings little solace.

[dsc]

"I'm not merciful at all myself when it comes to the just punishment this individual deserves. His mortal being committed a crime against men, and his mortal being gets punished by men. Fair enough."

Ditto. And I'm even okay with joking about it.

[A Jovial Cad]

I don't believe you understand the moral underpinnings of Capital Punishment throughout the history of Judeo-Christian civilization, or you wouldn't think that way.

No offense; very few pro-death penalty advocates do either. It's a collective historical ignorance on both sides.

The Death Penalty, as practiced up to the mid-Twentieth century in Western Nations with heavy Judeo-Christian influences, was never thought of as a "deterrent" of any sort: that was always considered to be beside the point, and actually irrelevant.

The truth of the matter is that for every sin against man there is a possible recompense in Judeo-Christian law on this earth: from theft to bearing false witness to any manner of other crimes ranging from the trivial to the significant a worldly restitution, in some form or another, is available as a penance from the perpetrator to the victim. All save one: murder.

The thinking went that when one takes a person's life in cold blood, they have taken from them something that can, by definition, never be recompensed to them on this mortal plane. This was a crime, therefore, that was considered impossible for men to judge, beyond the bare facts of the guilt of the responsible party. Only God, the thinking went, could truly adjudicate such a matter. Therefore, those guilty of what we would call first-degree murder where condemned to death not for their actual crime, per se, but because it was understood that the only Power that could truly judge it was God, and the only way to facilitate that ultimate judgment was to dispatch the guilty to His presence, forthwith.

Hence the nineteenth-century concluding pronouncements of "Hanging Judges" as they passed their sentences upon the condemned: May God have mercy upon your soul.

It was actually seen as a merciful way of allowing the guilty to plead their case before the One Entity that could truly adjudicate their claims, if any, to "justification" as to the crime they'd committed.

Myself, I simply opt for the practical side of it, and support the Death Penalty on that basis; it deters at least one murderer when the needle is inserted, if not others. One less monster that might potentially harm either me or, more importantly, a member of my family some day.

But the origins of the Death Penalty in Western Culture had nothing to do with any of that: it was focused on the afterlife, and the necessity to get the person who'd taken another's life before the Judgment Seat of God, because Human Law couldn't, truly, do "justice" to the matter in this temporal sphere.

That is the true origin of the Death Penalty in Western Civilization, plain, simple, period. It works either way, in my estimation.

-AJC

[ThirstyMan]

The MSNBC show right now is doing the victim thing for Michael Ross.
We're all victims of something, as long as we blame others for our own problems.

Dennis Prager, in his book _Take a Second Look_, identifies how the media fails us all by elevating compassion beyond justice. It isn't healthy at all.

Justice demands that this guilt be punished.
"Super-sized" compassion only moves us away from justice into a perverse form of idolatry. Compassion yes, AND justice yes.

In this case the killer himself had a better grasp of his guilt and its consequence than the Circus of counselors all around him. Ross's words indicate he was tormented with guilt, maybe even to the point of repenting.
But still, justice must be served.
The liberal and broken MSM doesn't like to hear someone clearly voice their own guilt and remorse or heaven forbid! to say he is deserving of his punishment.
They think such are signs of a sick person.
Well...that's pretty sick!

No, Ross was right about this one thing. He was guilty and he deserved to die. Justice was served.