[stm]

Sounds like justifiable homicide to me!

[SolidWood]

The father should get some award.

[proudofthesouth]

Why is killing a drug dealer a bad thing???

[mtbopfuyn]

He should be named Father of the Year.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Her boyfriend was 24, she was...16? For that reason alone, this sounds like justice to me.

Kim Walker deserves a Presidential pardon, and he shouldn't have to wait for the end of Bush's term to get it.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

"You were a desperate man," she said. "In saving your daughter, you wrongfully and unnecessarily took the life of another human being."

seems to me this scenario is better than the vice versa one..lose a daughter and let the scumbag live..

[Star Traveler]

Well, here was the key part that I wanted to find out about (just the excerpted part related to just the shooting circumstances and not the rest of the story) --

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The shooting followed months of growing concern over Jadah's health and behaviour, culminating in an anonymous letter telling the Walkers she and Hayward were injecting morphine.

On RCMP advice, the couple had Jadah committed under a Mental Health Act warrant for a weekend assessment of her drug problem at the Yorkton hospital's psychiatric ward.

On the Monday of her release, she was picked up by friends and reunited with Hayward at the house where they lived.

Walker then went there with a Luger M80 semi-automatic pistol. After asking a resistant Jadah to come home, he shot Hayward.

Walker has said he didn't intend to kill him. He testified he remembers only "flashes" of the incident and nothing of the actual shooting.

After the verdict was read yesterday, Pritchard appeared to accept the characterization of the welder and father of three put forward by the defence.
She said he may well have believed that killing Hayward was his only option to save Jadah - but he was terribly wrong.

"You were a desperate man," she said. "In saving your daughter, you wrongfully and unnecessarily took the life of another human being."

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That's the problem with dispensing "frontier justice" -- it just can't be done these days. It's not allowed. And there's the problem with the shooting, regardless of the trouble his daughter was in. It's a troublesome situation all right...

Regards,
Star Traveler

P.S. -- if anyone needs to chop paragraphs (but I think it's okay) do the last two paragraphs to keep the shooting incident intact. The *shooting part* is *key* to understanding what's happening here.

[spunkets]

"Defence lawyer Morris Bodnar told reporters he would file an appeal as soon as he can, with one basis being that Pritchard ...erred by instructing the jury that acquittal was not an option.

LOL! Why hold a friggin' trial!

[Mr. K]

In the U.S. (this happened in Canada, folks) what would happen if:

1) the father obtained an order of protection to keep the 24 year old away from his daughter and..

2) then shot him next time he was near?

?? any ideas? (I have a few.. but I am trying to think realistically- not cynically)

[MAexile]

But Hayward's family and friends paint a different picture of a kind man who shared with Jadah Walker a debilitating morphine addiction - and never had a chance to turn his life around.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard this...

Defence lawyer Morris Bodnar told reporters he would file an appeal as soon as he can, with one basis being that Pritchard did not allow Walker to claim self-defence. He also claimed she erred by instructing the jury that acquittal was not an option.

Acquittal was not an option?!?!? What kind of kangaroo court was this?

[Porterville]

Third world nation justice.... that is what you get when you vote despots to leadership positions.

[Recon Dad]

Just do it the Irish way. Smile, make no threats, bid your time and make it look like a drug deal gone bad.
The law wouldn't spend a lot of time looking for you.

[enuf]

know I will probably be "flamed" for this, but here goes my "solution", First, find out who gave or sold them the drugs, if they don't tell have them locked up, if they do and it can be proved sue them or their parents for their rehab, and damage they have caused. Basically I'm saying to make the "pushers" parents responsible and or take away the incentive for these parasites to sell drugs. I know this could be dangerous to the user or their parents, but you must do something.
I suggested this years ago and was told this cannot be done because you are in essence being a criminal (user)
suing a criminal (pusher)

[Sir Gawain]

Why didn't he kill his daughter? It was her free will that was making her do drugs.

[ColdSteelTalon]

I tell ya how to kill a drug dealer. Take him out in the middle of nowhere tie him to a tree and shoot him with an arrow. Then bury him in a freshly filled grave with someone elses body.

Poof !!! gone from the face of the earth and if they ever did find the body no ballistics.

[Exeter]

Apparently the "he needed killin'" defense is not valid north of the US/Canadian border...

[WorkingClassFilth]

Think about this. If your young'un were being enslaved by some scumbag with drugs and a coathanger and the law wouldn't touch him, wouldn't you consider your life worth a sacrifice if it freed her?

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Sounds like justice to me and besides he needed killing anyway. A dirtbag wont get that close to my daughter and when she does reach 30, Im still going on her first date with her and the "Target".

[NonValueAdded]

Walker should say "pardon me" and the governor should say "sure!"

[HitmanLV]

James Hayward, 24, bled to death from five gunshot wounds on March 17, 2003, after Walker shot him in front of Jadah and four other witnesses.

Witnesses are a bad thing.