Killer is set to die tonight for slaying of woman in 1997

Associated Press via HoustonChronicle.com ^ | July 27, 2005 | MICHAEL GRACZYK

[Shawndell Green]

Good argument for the death penalty.

[goldstategop]

Liberals focus on his allegedly hard childhood and not on his vicious crime. As if that somehow excuses what he did.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[gridlock]

I'm no fan of the death penalty, but what does his abuse as a child have to do with his culpability over the death of this woman? It just does not make any sense. Many killers had unfortunate circumstances growing up, but the vast majority of the people who grow up in similar circumstances never wind up killing anybody. It is not like unfortunate circumstances growing up cause an irresistable compulsion to kill, or anything.

[clee1]

Good riddance, scumbag. (not you... the perp)

[BCR #226]

I'm against lethal injection. It is an abomination in the fact that it is an easy passing for a fiend. We need firing squads!!!!! No alternatives, just firing squads.

Mike

[jocon307]

Good riddence to this guy, and may he rot in hell.

[Old Grumpy]

"This was a young man who had a very difficult life,"

Here we go: The same old lame excuse that makes it OK to go butcher a person.

[Vigilanteman]

I've always been a fan of good old-fashioned hangings. A firing squad may produce a corpse and blood, but it is over quickly. A hanging may be over just as quick, but the site of the perp's corpse twisting for half an hour serves as a more powerful warning to would-be perps. Sure, it may be just as quick and painless, but would-be perps have got to wonder what happens if the hangman goofs and doesn't drop them far enough for a clean break.

[Pharmboy]

Firing squads have traditionally been seen as the honorable execution. For example, when Benedict Arnold's British handler, Major John Andre was captured, he: "...appealed to George Washington to be executed by firing squad, but by the rules of war he was to be hanged at Tappan on October 2, 1780."

Hanging would be good for this POS.

[Timeout]

He left there to live with his father, who was in the business of making homosexual sex toys, according to an affidavit from defense attorneys.

There's his problem.

Lib death penalty opponents couldn't embrace the cause of a man whose defense tries to portray a gay homelife as one that leads to perversion. They have to let this one by...for the "cause", ya know.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Absolutely NO firing squads. Only public hanging!

[csvset]

Kiersa Paul

I've searched and wasn't able to find a picture of her. It's sad that the killer's name and mugshot show up all over the net, yet, as usual, the victim is forgotten by the media.

[BCR #226]

How about firing squads made up of the victim's family and friends if they so choose to do it?

Mike

[Eagles6]

I'd have no problem letting the likes of him hang until the buzzards finish him.

[MinuteGal]

Whether we like it or not, the liberals have succeeded in branding the gallows, firing squads and the electric chair as "cruel and unusual" punishment.

I'm just happy that lethal injection is hanging in there as a method of execution.

The left and the bleeding hearts want to eliminate the death penalty, so let's be grateful for what we've got.

I don't know the count, but I believe most European countries have no executions at all....and maybe many other parts of the world, also.

Leni

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

They can pull the trap, after giving the perp 50 lashes.

[free thinker 03]

He is a good candidate for a retroactive abortion.

[PGalt]

Compassion for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

[caver]

We fried one in Indiana night before last. He killed 3 of his high school buddies back in 1989 I think.

[OldSmaj]

"This was a young man who had a very difficult life," recalled Bill White, one of Martinez's trial lawyers.

Well...alrighty then.

Just go out and kill a few people, that'll make it all okay.

Stinking liberal do-gooders, warm-and-fuzzy, kumbaya, birkenstockers are truly sickening in their defenses of these human pieces of dog excrement.