Liberals supporting the death penalty? I’ll be amazed if the scumbag IS ever executed there!
There really is a big difference between northeastern culture and that further south. Three days to conclude that this scum needs to meet his maker?
I don’t expect that it would take a Virginia jury long at all to recommend death in a case such as this. Go to the deep south and it would take them about a half an hour. 20 minutes of which would be spent getting coffee and donuts and talking football.
Now, we will be in for 20 years of appeals.
I remember driving to Olympia one afternoon to do some work and hearing on the radio about a bank robbery.
Two tellers, IIRC, were shot dead. The husband of one of the tellers had got there to take her to lunch and she died in his arms.
Mitchell Rupe was found and convicted of the MURDERS, and sentenced to death. Washington state at that time approved hanging as a capital punishment.
Rupe, VIA HIS ATTORNEY, appealed, because he was TOO FAT, and thought there was a chance his head might come off!
Ya think??
Went to the SC, it was said it would be “cruel and unusual”, he went on and blew out his liver and got a free couple hundred K’s worth of free liver transplants, and after 20 years or so, passed in prison.
SO NOW YOU HAVE AN IDEA ABOUT THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM!
Every few months I am reminded of a man who goes to take his wife to lunch, maybe talk about the kids, and ends up holding her while she dies...
This is a great reason for the US to have a new institution: the Second Court of the United States.
The Second Court of the United States is not a federal court, but consists of 100 State judges appointed by their respective State legislatures.
The Second Court of the United States is inferior to the Supreme Court of the United States, but it is superior to the federal District Courts.
The Second Court of the United States does *not* determine if a law is constitutional. Instead, its primary purpose is to decide if a State court case, that has been usurped by a federal judge, is in fact worthy of federal involvement, or should be returned to the State of origin to be decided.
The death penalty is a big part of this. When a State sentences some murderer to die, a whole slate of federal judges assume that they have profound constitutional issues in what should instead be a simple matter of execution. Even by hanging, if a State chooses to do so.
And this whimsical nit picking by federal judges means that justice is unconscionably delayed or even denied.
But other, superior federal judges have refused to discipline them for their nit picky ways. So it is right and proper that the States have some means of doing so.
As things stand, the federal District Courts are now annually forwarding some 8,000 cases to the Supreme Court every year. And since they can only hear a few, the vast majority are stuck with whatever decision was made by the District Court. And these decisions often stink.
So with a Second Court of the United States, many of these 8,000 cases would be returned to the States, leaving a far more manageable number for the SCOTUS. Otherwise the cases would revert to first the default of the Second Court’s decision, returning it to the State or not. Then, only if that was not an issue, would the case be remanded to the District Court for decision.
And the bottom line? America’s death rows would be emptied, and kept at low occupancy, as many villains met their fate.
The headline in my local paper is already soft-soaping the viscious crime. I expect in a while we’ll see the usual cadre of muderer-loving lefties (for example Tookie Williams fans) carrying protest signs outside the prison.
*spit* Dayum, I despise lefties.
This crime was so horrific that the “no cruel and unusual punishment” death penalty isn’t good enough.
The guy should be strapped to an electric chair, shocked for a second or two, then stop, then repeat, over and over and over again.
That would be the equivalent of what he did to his victims—and that would be justice.