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Convicted Mississippi Klansman faces sentencing --The Guy's 80yrs, COME ON!
Reuters ^ | 6/23/05

Posted on 06/23/2005 6:04:29 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

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1 posted on 06/23/2005 6:04:29 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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Life without parole.


2 posted on 06/23/2005 6:05:13 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
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8 or 80, he did the crime, he can do the time.


3 posted on 06/23/2005 6:05:23 AM PDT by deadeyedawg (Crush our enemies, listen to their lamentations, and drive them before us!)
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I do feel some empathy for him, as he is 80 and wheeling around oxygen, but if he is convicted, there should be punishment. I would think they could think of a more constructive punsihment than jail for him though. Maybe he should have to work at the King Center in Atlanta?


4 posted on 06/23/2005 6:07:08 AM PDT by eyespysomething ( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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If he had killed your brother,son loved ones
40 years ago would you still say he's too old
to go to jail?


5 posted on 06/23/2005 6:07:20 AM PDT by WKB (A closed mind is a good thing to lose.)
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Maybe they should just make him a Senator.


6 posted on 06/23/2005 6:08:54 AM PDT by tractorman
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I wonder if he was a democrat when he did the crime.


7 posted on 06/23/2005 6:10:52 AM PDT by tkathy (Tyranny breeds terrorism. Freedom breeds peace.)
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If convicted he should do the time. If the man was a pedophile and helped sexually molest then murder three 10 year olds back in 1963, would any one want him on the streets?


8 posted on 06/23/2005 6:11:40 AM PDT by Dallas59 (" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
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Why did they take so long to charge him?


9 posted on 06/23/2005 6:12:43 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Not soon enough. Even if he gets a sentence of 20 years, he has gotten off easy.


10 posted on 06/23/2005 6:13:02 AM PDT by CSM ( If the government has taken your money, it has fulfilled its Social Security promises. (dufekin))
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May be I would feel empathy for him if he felt guilty and remorse all these years for his crime and had turned him self in. But he doesn't he still says hes not guilty and has no remorse for his crime. He deserves whatever punishment he has coming to him.
11 posted on 06/23/2005 6:13:34 AM PDT by FloridianBushFan (God Bless our Troops and President Bush)
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Come on? His age doesn't mean anything other than he got away with murder for so long.


12 posted on 06/23/2005 6:13:41 AM PDT by kenth
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He murdered nd in cold blood, no limitations on that crime.


13 posted on 06/23/2005 6:13:59 AM PDT by TGOGary (I would blow my brains out before ever wearing a blue beret.)
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He was cutting down trees at 79? Robust old geezer!


14 posted on 06/23/2005 6:14:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Working Class Zero with wall-to-wall carpeting.)
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Maybe empathy is not the right word. But I still think he needs to face punishment for his crimes.


15 posted on 06/23/2005 6:16:01 AM PDT by eyespysomething ( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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Guilty.

No statute of limitations.

16 posted on 06/23/2005 6:17:33 AM PDT by OKSooner
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Minimum security prison, free meals, free healthcare, friends.....

Hmmmm---not bad if your 80 years old. I bet their are some old timers in the nursing home who love the arrangement.


17 posted on 06/23/2005 6:18:25 AM PDT by Pondman88
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What's with that 'He's 80yrs--Come On" tag on the post headline? Just what, exactly, are you trying to say? Albert Fish was in his seventies when he killed and ate a little girl several decades ago. You think Fish should've got a pass, too, seeing as how he was an old man at the time?

Murder is murder. I hope the old man who had a hand in those civil rights killings spends his remaining few years in a dark and miserable place, contemplating the ruin of his life and the lives of those he stole.
18 posted on 06/23/2005 6:20:04 AM PDT by Rembrandt_fan
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Ok, I can agree on no jail time - let the family members of the men killed have him - I'm sure they would be as fair as his mob was to the young men.


19 posted on 06/23/2005 6:20:20 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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Kind of a weird thread to see on a site where hundreds of people wanted to toss Mark Felt in jail.


20 posted on 06/23/2005 6:21:05 AM PDT by Strategerist
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