Posted on 12/01/2005 10:15:01 AM PST by radar101
From my own personal experience, this judge is a truly incredible + incredibly fair woman & a true practioner of judicial restraint - my guess is that she'll sustain the jury's verdict and sentence Camacho to death.
ping
BTTT.
It should be illegal. The 6th Amendment seems to be pretty clear on the subject. We have the right to a trial by jury, not trial by jury to be overridden on the whims of a single judge.
Hang 'em High!
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Support our Minutemen Patriots!
Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!
No doubt Vicente Fox will put his 2 cents in and demand clemency for this murderer.
Dont worry about a thing Pancho,er!! Adrian, They have been trying to execute Tookie for 30 years now and the chances are good you will die a natural death before its your turn.
They can move him into Tookies cell, after they finish him off in a few days.
And it will be 25 years before he comes close to having this carried out. And if he writes a children's book or gets some poetry published he might be hailed as a "genius" and come to be regarded as a man worthy of both admiration and emulation. He might even be nominated for a Nobel Prize. Eventually someone will suggest he was framed by racist cops or that it was self-defense. And then some politician whose sole demonstrated ability is that he/she is able to talk others into casting votes in his/her favor will announce, with suitable gravity using sonorous tones indicating deep moral insight, that it is in the best interests of mankind to commute the sentence (perhaps even pardon the man) so that he can shed his light upon the masses and lift them up to higher realms of sweet reason and purity.
In the meantime the officer who laid his life on the line and gave it to serve and protect the law-abiding citizens of his community will be forgotten. In the eyes of some he was never important anyway and in the eyes of a few he was the enemy of all they hold dear. And in the eyes of a small but influential and excessively loud minority his murderer is now and will forever remain a hero.
But nothing for the officer and his family?
It should just read "Killer should die",not "Cop-killer should die".What difference does it make if the victim was a cop?They are no better than the rest of us.I am personally affronted that should I be murdered,the perpetrator would be treated differently(with more lenience) than if I had been a cop.
And as his final day approaches thirty years from now...
Celebrities will gather outside the prison, to hold candle light vigils.
Lobby the governor for clemency, singing his praises.
They will tell the press how this poor misguided young man turned his life around in prison, studied hard to get his GED, and found the cure for AIDS (abstainging from sex & needle sharing, until no carriers were left...) and so has been nominated for both the Nobel Peace & Medicine Prizes...
Sound familiar?
Why is it not "cruel and unusual punishment" of the public to keep these pukes alive on the public dime for decades, instead of carrying out the sentence in a timely manner?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
These police officer murders by illegal aliens break my heart. Some scum of the earth, bottom feeder criminal who broke into our country, taking the life of one of our finest and bravest, makes me want to vomit.
Me too, BQ. It's absolutely awful.
Illegals, just doing the jobs Americans won't do.
Should have taken about seven minutes.
Or 5 even
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