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Life for Christmas slaying: 'You have a heart that is malignant'
Chicago Tribune ^ | October 21, 2011 | Jason Meisner

Posted on 10/21/2011 7:34:37 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Ralph Elliott had volunteered to pick up food for the Christmas Eve party he and his wife had hosted for more than 50 years.

But as he stepped into his car with an armload of chicken at a Popeye's restaurant in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, Elliott was fatally shot during a robbery attempt in 2009.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chicago; cration; murder
"I am praying that God will take that image out of my head someday," she said after the sentencing. "It's a terrible thing … but the evidence was clear. My husband did not have a chance."

Poor lady, someday that crumb will meet his maker.

1 posted on 10/21/2011 7:34:39 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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This part gets me:
...Lee Cration, who was on parole for a previous murder when he killed Elliott, 79...

If the government wants to manufacture some jobs, it should be to build more and more and more prisons. No more early releases due to overcrowding. If prisons are crowded, then we need more prisons.

2 posted on 10/21/2011 7:46:32 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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Thursday, an angry Cook County judge imposed a mandatory life sentence on Lee Cration, who was on parole for a previous murder when he killed Elliott, 79. "You have a heart that is malignant and a soul that is depraved," Judge James Linn said as he handed down the maximum sentence.

Gotta love our justice system. Talk about something that is malignant.

3 posted on 10/21/2011 7:47:32 AM PDT by Right Brother
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It’s a sad time in our country when a vicious repeat-offender murderer does not (can not?) receive a death sentence, even when his crime is recorded on videotape.


4 posted on 10/21/2011 7:50:10 AM PDT by WayneS (Comments now include 25% more sarcasm at NO additional charge.)
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“...someday that crumb will meet his maker.”

And soon afterward meet up with his eternal dungeon master.


5 posted on 10/21/2011 7:50:19 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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And soon afterward meet up with his eternal dungeon master.

Maybe he'll get re-incarnated as a guy who gets gunned down in the streets.

6 posted on 10/21/2011 7:52:48 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
If the government wants to manufacture some jobs, it should be to build more and more and more prisons.

I would rather see people put to work building gallows, gas chambers, and developing lethal injection chemicals.

7 posted on 10/21/2011 7:52:52 AM PDT by Right Brother
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Not a hate crime, just a crime against a good man.

Jesse, Al and the rest of the race pimps can celebrate this criminal's good fortune for making parole. Since all you need is a second chance. Can't wait till the natives start eyeballing the race pimps and pull a Gaddafi or Mussolini for selling out and making money off the misery of the African American community.

8 posted on 10/21/2011 7:53:47 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
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To: Right Brother

Oooooh .... the judge spoke harshly to the killer. Probably grounds for appeal.


9 posted on 10/21/2011 7:55:44 AM PDT by sphinx
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The left decries the building of more prisons because certain demographics are over-represented in prison.

IE, building more prisons is “racist”.


10 posted on 10/21/2011 7:59:43 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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The left decries the building of more prisons because certain demographics are over-represented in prison. IE, building more prisons is “racist”.

The late Richard Pryor, thought the same thing:

"It made my heart ache, you know, to see all these beautiful black men in the joint. The warriors should be out there helping the masses. I felt that way, I was real naive. Six weeks I was up there and I talked to the brothers. I talked to 'em, and ... thank God we got penitentiaries!"

11 posted on 10/21/2011 8:03:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Right Brother

No need for the injected chemicals. Something like 50cc of air will do it, and we’ve lots of air and used needles.


12 posted on 10/21/2011 8:24:56 AM PDT by benewton
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...Lee Cration, who was on parole for a previous murder when he killed Elliott, 79...

This is why convicted murderers should always be executed ASAP.

13 posted on 10/21/2011 8:26:36 AM PDT by TheDon (The Democrat Party, the party of the KKK (tm))
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If executions increased it would relieve overcrowding and thus the need for more prisons. Always an option to offer the left. :)


14 posted on 10/21/2011 8:48:49 AM PDT by xp38
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I would like to see a real three strikes law. People who commit a third felony, any felony, after serving two previous felony prison terms should ride the needle. It would perhaps require some adjustments to what is considered a felony, but I think that anyone who can’t get the hang of civilization after two chances is a waste of oxygen and should be killed like a rat.


15 posted on 10/21/2011 10:26:16 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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Thursday, an angry Cook County judge imposed a mandatory life sentence on Lee Cration, who was on parole for a previous murder when he killed Elliott, 79.

Hard to believe there are some here who object to those of us that would refer to the murderer as an animal.

16 posted on 10/21/2011 10:49:28 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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