Posted on 02/08/2007 4:38:15 PM PST by Rakkasan1
FARGO, N.D. — A federal judge sentenced Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. to death today for the killing of college student Dru Sjodin, saying from the bench that today has been the "most difficult day of my life."
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Let him be stoned with stones and then speak of him no more.
As opposed to being stoned with...cupcakes?
that judge must have had an easy life if this was "the most difficult day of his life".
Frankly, I'm glad they gave this goon the chair. But generally there have to be aggravating circumstances to merit a death sentence. What was particularly heinous about this murder (except the crime, itself sufficient cause to merit a death sentence in any sane society).
Subject = Brutal Slaying
Byline = Fargo, ND
Coincidence???
Took her across state lines before killing her. Made it a Federal crime....
But good catch anyway. If anyone sees William Macy or Steve Buscemi wandering around, check for the camera.
Does ND have a death penalty? I know MN doesn't.
No. That's why he's headed to the Federal facility in Indiana.
I don't know if ND does or not. But this is a federal rap, so state law doesn't apply.
If the same crime happened and involved crossing the Texas border, I'm pretty sure the feds would let the Texas prosecutors handle the case. I'm assuming the feds prosecuted the ND case due to the lack of a death penalty in either MN or ND and ambiguity about where the crime occurred.
bring him on....we need the business. It's about the time that we begin to use the death penalty for what it was designed for....a little bit of deterance, and a whole lot of preventing recidivism
That and the fact that, as another poster pointed out, he transported her across state lines. That automatically makes it a federal offense. The feds can defer to the state prosecutors, but in this case, they didn't, and went for the death penalty.
Good riddance.
He killed her with a knife and left her body in a ditch over the winter, not to be discovered until the following spring. The bloody knife was found in his car with her blood on it within a day or two after the killing. He could have told the police where she had been left anytime but did not. This fact, along with the brutality of the killing got him the death penalty. Sometimes there really are monsters among us.
Bad idea. Da-nial got him da chair.
Regardless of the issue at hand; regardless of whether I agree or disagree with the particular judgment, judges that make these kind of pronouncements from the bench irritate the hell out of me. I mean, who cares? If he feels he can't do the job, step down.
He's got a captive audience to unload on. You and I don't. If we have a difficult day we have to just get on with it. I'd like to get his telephone number, call him up, and say: "Judge, now that I have your attention, I just want to take some of your time to tell you I recently had to make a really difficult decision. The most difficult of my life, and I am going to tell you all about it."
To your point, I just heard a judge last month complaining in open court about our governor's(MN) "budget cuts". (IE- the budget didn't grow by double digits)
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