Townsfolk slit murderer's throat

The Australian ^ | August 02, 2005 | n/a

[holymoly]

"He may have been a former soldier, because he knew about weapons and had previous incidents in which he killed two persons in another town and fled north (to the US) and had just returned," San Jeronimo city hall spokeswoman Teresa Gonzalez said.

I guess we should be thankful he decided to stroll back across our wide open border with Mexico.

[TXBubba]

I'm just thankful he is no more.

[cowboyway]

FURIOUS townspeople hacked a man to death after he shot and killed nine persons

I guess they won't be crossing the border.

[A CA Guy]

"When police arrived, the man stabbed an officer, snatched a police rifle and then "killed everything in his path in his escape", he said.

Their police don't seem well trained to do anything but take bribes.

What a living hell that country is.

[Parley Baer]

Sounds to me that they making a citizens arrest and they had to take action in their defense. Perfectly legal. Hehehehe.

[RedWhiteBlue]

This sort of vigilante justice tends to happen "south of the border" from time to time. Seems the people get enraged at murderers and take things into their own hands, knowing that the perp won't get the death penalty, and, even if convicted, will be let loose in only a few years.

[BenLurkin]

When police arrived, the man stabbed an officer, snatched a police rifle and then "killed everything in his path in his escape", he said.

[theFIRMbss]

>Sounds to me that they making a citizens arrest and they had to take action in their defense

Maybe the "victim"
lived in a nearby castle
and scared the townsfolk . . .

[johnny7]

This is how things are done when the system is dysfunctional... or is nonexistent.

It's not intelligent and it's always too late... but the problem is eliminated.

[MarkBsnr]

Oh no!!! The do gooders at the ACLU were going to set up a defense lawyer dream team for him.

Sob.

Well, maybe there's somebody we can sue...

[cake_crumb]

I wonder if he killed anyone on this side of the border? Glad his neighbors took the law into their own hands, exempting him from a quick bribe-and-walk to the federales, but since he's dead, we may never know.

[Montfort]

Did they take the pieces of his body back to their fields to make the crops grow better? This sounds almost like some ancient human sacrifice. Sometimes villages or tribes used to sacrifice criminals, and sometimes they sacrificed members of the royal family, or members of a family born to produce sacrificial victims. I have been reading The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer recently.

In the US, the custom is to sacrifice large numbers of innocent children to Molech, while we let most criminals live.

[montag813]

It's obvious Mexicans are displeased that their nation has no death penalty.

[A CA Guy]

The people should be that fed up with their government down there.

[NickatNite2003]

I didn't see anything! ...I was at home...asleep...
with a action adventure movie on TV...i thought it
was just the TV banditos firing away and just fell
back asleep...and maybe it was...i did not look at the clock... Everybody i know was watching that movie...
perhaps they were playing cards, and didn't see anything
or anybody either, Senor Federale....But i must go now.
..okay?

[cyclotic]

...and the people of the town lived happily ever after.

[steel_resolve]

My thoughts exactly. Come to think of it, how the hell did we get stuck with such crappy neighbors? Oh cruel geography! Thou mockest America so.

[A CA Guy]

The Spanish raped the local Indians before we arrived to create the Mexican. That is pretty much how that one happened.

I didn't give you a PC answer, but it is the honest one.

PS, Mexican isn't a race...it's a nationality, for any of the La Raza idiots reading here.

[Clemenza]

Did they take the pieces of his body back to their fields to make the crops grow better? This sounds almost like some ancient human sacrifice.

You're thinking of Haiti, not Mexico.

[lormand]

"I'm just thankful he is no more."

Yep, you know for sure that he will never do it again.

Such is my case for the Death Penalty.