Posted on 03/09/2011 8:24:17 PM PST by massmike
A father still enraged over his young son’s death more than 35 years ago has vowed to kill the boy’s murderer if he is released several years early from his 40-year sentence, as now scheduled.
Michael Woodmansee, who was a neighbor of the Foreman family, killed Jason Foreman in South Kingstown in 1975 and hid the boy’s shellacked bones in his house for years.
A Department of Correction lawyer said Woodmansee earned time off for good behavior and it can be revoked only if he misbehaves.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Parents should have the right to kill the person who murdered their child. I can only imagine the hate this father has for the scum who murdered and consumed his young son.
The people of Rhode Island have been badly let down by their prison population, members of which should have taken care of this problem a long time ago. The fact that this guy is still breathing is a disgrace to incarcerated criminals everywhere.
Exactly. Shoot. Shovel. Shut up.
Yep. And knowing it acted as a deterrent for those who might have otherwise considered the crime.
NW North Dakota and NW Oklahoma aren't that far apart, culturally.
Except for that lutefisk thing...(8^D)
YEP...what YOU said...I’ll bet neighborhoods would be safer everywhere....for many reasons.
One time, as I was checking out with my lunch, there happened to be on the radio a local story about some child molester who was on trial. They were talking about how his lawyer was using some legal manouver to get some evidence declared inadmissable, or something, I don't remember.
Anyway, I was the only one in line, and when she finished ringing me up, she looked me in the eye and she said "back in my country, if he had done that, the men in our village would have taken care of him. He would have... just... disappeared."
She gave a very slight, but unmistakable, little verbal push to the word "men." It was kind of spooky.
hell, I’d go after this shmuck if he killed any of my pets that I’ve adopted and in many cases, nursed back from near death once or twice.
He shouldn’t have broadcast it, he may just be trying to give the murderer fair warning. They probably need to (if they let him go) let him go at the state line and say ‘don’t come back, it’s your funeral’.
No, no, you didn’t read the story carefully. Van Der Sloot hasn’t even had a trial yet. He hasn’t been sentenced. HIS LAWYER is asking that he be given a five-year sentence. I agree there is no justice, but in the Peru case, it remains to be seen.
Yes, we are better off giving up the idea of impassioned justice and the rule of law in favor of blood feuds.
Well, we had brains and eggs...
I have a theory, but it’s altogether different. I simply don’t think there were any molesters back then. Or if there were, it was much easier to do it without getting caught.
There are a number of things that have changed in today’s world, which includes a society that is becoming increasingly desensitized to this sort of behavior. I blame it on a number of factors such as fewer sexual taboos (thanks to the stench of the 1960s) and easier access to pornography because of the Internet (not just child porn, but porn in general).
Perhaps too in the olden days, religious belief was stronger and those who had these urges tried harder to not act on them.
Also, the bastard should not be let out of jail. He should in fact be executed, via some method that will give him time to ponder his unbelievable crime.
This wouldn’t be happening if they had hanged the bastard.
I understand that he was imprisoned in ANOTHER STATE FOR HIS %$^&%( SAFETY!! If he’d been sent to a local prison, they’d probably have found him in the shower with 3’ of sharpened broom handle jammed where the sun don’t shine.
I still don’t understand why this animal is still on the planet but if the murdered boy’s dad does snuff this SOB, do you really think a jury would convict him?
I understand that he was imprisoned in ANOTHER STATE FOR HIS %$^&%( SAFETY!! If he’d been sent to a local prison, they’d probably have found him in the shower with 3’ of sharpened broom handle jammed where the sun don’t shine.
I still don’t understand why this animal is still on the planet but if the murdered boy’s dad does snuff this SOB, do you really think a jury would convict him?
You know, I do not believe in vigilante justice even for cases like child rape. I think they should be tried, convicted, and punished like everyone else. And for these situations, I think castration of molesters is the most reasonable solution.
“I’d go after this shmuck if he killed any of my pets that I’ve adopted and in many cases, nursed back from near death once or twice.”
I think I would feel the same way in that situation.
“I’d go after this shmuck if he killed any of my pets that I’ve adopted and in many cases, nursed back from near death once or twice.”
The police used to do that a lot in olden times. They’d drive a suspected felon to the state or county line and say “We’ll let you go here, but don’t ever set foot in our city again or else.”
But he wasn’t sentenced for a capital crime. So, it is what it is.
Urging tribal blood feud justice is something that FReepers should understand is a step backwards away from civilization.
One other thing I might add is that this guy did indeed deserve the death penalty, except that he killed the boy in the ‘70s when there was no capital punishment.
The ban on the death penalty only lasted a couple of years, but it was a big-time mistake.
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