Posted on 03/05/2009 4:14:58 AM PST by from occupied ga
CHAPEL HILL
A ceremony at UNC Chapel Hill will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of student body president Eve Carson.
Chancellor Holden Thorp will speak and a male student a cappella group will perform at the ceremony, scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday at the Pit, on the Chapel Hill campus. The university also has plans for a memorial garden in Carson's name.
The 22-year-old Carson was kidnapped from her home the morning of March 5, 2008, and shot to death in the middle of a residential Chapel Hill street.
One man, 22-year-old Demario James Atwater, faces death on both federal carjacking and state murder charges in Carson's death. Another man, 18-year-old Laurence Lovette, faces murder, but won't face the death penalty because he was 17 when Carson was killed.
It appears that it is OK to kill white people in North Carolina if you're black, but not OK to be a lacrosse player if you're white.
I'm going to make a prediction here that Atwater will not get a (richly deserved) death sentence and that the other scum will be out on the streets again before he reaches age 45.
And as far as I can tell none of the government goons who were involved in the lacrosse player railroading except for Nifong (who got a token punishment) were ever held accountable for their actions including the Gestapo who intimidated the witness to prevent him from testifying for the defense. The woman who caused all of the problems was never charged with anything "because it would not serve any purpose to do so." Hello how about letting other worthless a$$holes know that accusing innocents of wrongdoing might get you in trouble (but not in North Carolina)
Because of Roper v. Simmonds, a 2005 Supreme Court decision that banned the death penalty for murderers under 18.
Ohh Well that's OK then. I'm surprised that the supremes didn't make the cutoff 30. I can see that someone under 18 should be able to murder someone without facing the extinction of his own miserable life. After all what's more important the life that was taken or the life of the criminal.
I wonder how that worked out for her?
Interesting reasoning, blaming the state of North Carolina for the Supreme Court’s ruling.
They could challenge it. And I guess you didn't notice the other half of the comment that I posted about the Duke Lacross players.
Yeah, that'll work. A better choice, in my opinion, would be to execute all the criminals that have already been sentenced to death, instead of letting them sit in prison forever.
A county prosecutor was responsible for the Duke lacrosse fiasco - a different county from Chapel Hill's. Criminal law in most states is county-level.
well of course if it doesn't have a good chance of success then you should never try it, right?
A better choice, in my opinion, would be to execute all the criminals that have already been sentenced to death,
that is not a dichotomous decision. ie you don't have to do one or the other, both could be done.
A county prosecutor was responsible for the Duke lacrosse fiasco
And so what? I referring as to what a perverted place North Carolina is when it comes to justice. Both locations are in NC.
I agree with you predictions. Death sentences are now far too uncommon these days. Our society loves to elevate the rights of murderers and coddle them while trampling the rights of victims. It is a perversion of justice and can only result in a destruction of society.
Add to all of the stuff the Obaminators have done in the last six weeks and I don't even recognize this country. I'm beginning to feel like a German Jew just after Hitler's election in 1934
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Words fail me....
obviously not too well, but she still didn't deserve to be murdered for it. She reminds me of the recent murder of Jean Calle
That is not accurate. The Duke Lacrosse Frame was perpetrated by a cabal made up of community "activists," the Durham PD, the DA's office, and the Duke University Administration. This is all documented in the ongoing lawsuits by many Lacrosse team members against those entities.
Further, it is my opinion that the entire North Carolina legal and judicial system is corrupt. Almost to a person, they stood by and watched a legalized lynching take place. Only after superhuman efforts by a handful of dedicated defense lawyers was the Mob thwarted. Such a lynching could never have gained traction without the tacit approval of the "legal community."
All this is documented in many thousands of posts here on FRee Republic, keyword "Dukelax." Also see the Liestoppers bulletin board for an ongoing debate and discussion.
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Liestoppers_meeting/forum/201026/
She won that election. And by the way, on behalf of everyone from North Carolina, regardless of political affiliations, your comment is extremely offensive and uncalled for.
States aren't interested in the cost of a death penalty trial.
They're Democrats, or in some cases, former Democrats calling themselves Republicans. Of course they're corrupt, and of course, the ignorant and greedy public keeps electing them.
WOW I was unaware that you spoke for everyone from NC. oh and I found his remark to be "somewhat tasteless", not "extremely offensive"
This is a good use of the taxpayers' money? Tilting at windmills is all well and good, but I'd prefer that the state not do it on my dime.
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