Posted on 10/31/2005 5:56:16 AM PST by Inge_CAV
Teacher dies from beating Oct 30, 2005, 07:44 PM
WAFF 48 News has learned the teacher who was brutally beaten at Valley school has died.
The attack happened Wednesday inside the Lawrence County Family Education building in Moulton.
Doctors say Judy Jester's condition worsened and she never regained consciousness.
She died Sunday afternoon at Huntsville Hospital.
Jester was a first grade teacher at Hatton Elementary School.
She was found bleeding and unconscious inside the Lawrence County Family Education building in Moulton Wednesday night.
Investigators say the she had been beaten several times in the head and face.
Jester suffered a fractured skull and a brain stroke.
A 15-year old is accused of attacking her.
The unidentified teenager is being held at a detention center in Lauderdale County.
Police believe robbery may have been the motive behind the beating.
The teenager faces robbery, burglary and attempted murder charges, but now those charges are expected to be upgraded.
The teenager could be charged as an adult.
WAFF 48 News will continue to follow this story and will bring you new details as we get them.
You are correct. The decision came after "considering" or "consulting" international law as well as American but it was never "based" upon those laws.
The issue here was defining "cruel and unusual" hence consulting numerous legal codes was clearly appropriate. How can one define "unusual" without determining what "usual" means?
The reference was "consider" or "consult" which is far different than "base".
This is why I have 4 female relatives in Jackson Miss who quit teaching public and went private for less money.
Same thing here in Nashville though to a lesser degree.
Gives new meaning to blackboard jungle....can be lethal now, not just hooliganism.
Nope! In a very recent case rulled upon by the SCOTUS, they ruled that if the murderer was younger than 16 when the murder occurred, then it's "cruel and unusual punnishment" to exectute the murderer, even if that person is in his 20s at the time of the execution.
Mark
I read about Valley school, Lawrence County Family Education building in Moulton, Huntsville Hospital, Hatton Elementary School, Lauderdale County, but I see no state mentioned.
It's my pet peeve in news articles posted on FR -- when the physical location of the story is omitted.
In what state did this occur?
If you will read the TOPICS: line it is clearly stated.
The only proven deterrent is the death penalty. For one thing, it "deters" the original criminal himself, and murderers have been shown by studies to go on to murder again. It could be a guard or another prisoner, or somebody they kill when they get out, but it is obvious that a murderer is like a chicken-killing dog: they just don't stop until you shoot them.
I have also read that in the past in cases where the death penalty was a certainty - murder in the course of a kidnapping or rape, for example - the criminals actually tried to avoid incurring the ultimate penalty. They're dumb, but not too dumb to know what "dead" means.
Of course, now it's no longer a certainty, and if it occurs, probably won't occur until some 20+ years after the crime (unless you live in Texas or Florida, where we are very speedy), so the deterrent effect is somewhat muted. And of course because this kid is a minor, he doesn't even have to worry about it, thanks to the SC and international law.
News article readers should not have to search for the location of the event.
I have the same beef with news web sites that do not list their location (city or state).
LOL! Thanks for your post. : )
There is no place for violent criminals in a polite society.
In that case, we need to have some hard core conservatives appointed to the SCOTUS. Not that that will ever happen....
Fry the bastard.
It's an adult crime. The Scumbag should do adult time.
WHAAA? Life? Do...time? Give us all a break.
That did not enter my mind AT ALL as I was reading this story. HOW ABOUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!!
What is wrong with a society that doesn't value or protect innocent lives? I have the same contempt for our GUTLESS "justice" system that I have for murderers.
Post #8 would answer that question...
What an insensitive and hateful thing to say!
An occasional innocent life now and then is a small price to pay to make us feel good about doing the "right" thing
... as long as the victim is somebody else's family...
Ain't gonna happen. The Supreme's have spoken, nobody under 21 gets death. We have a similar case out here on the "right side" of the San Francisco Bay (the Vitale killing in Lafayette, CA, been in all the papers).
The local county DA has said that, even though 1st Degree Murder with Special Circumstances is in order here, Life with no parole is the best he can do.
I'm not against capital punishement and I wouldn;t be against it either in this case.
I've always been against all the time it takes to get it done. It should be one appeal max. A special court that just does these cases, 2 weeks later, lose the appeal, get the needle the next day. Why drag it out for 20 years?
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