Yet somehow this innocent little boy was eligible.
Posted on 09/12/2013 6:02:31 PM PDT by Nachum
An 18-year-old Georgia man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for fatally shooting a baby riding in a stroller during a robbery attempt at a seaside town, a judge ruled Thursday.
De’Marquise Elkins, 18, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, The Associated Press reported.
Elkins was 17 at the time of the killing and thus too young to face the death penalty under Georgia law.
A jury last month found Elkins guilty of two counts of felony murder and a count of murder in the March 21 shooting of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago in Brunswick, Ga.
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Yet somehow this innocent little boy was eligible.
no amount of suffering is good enough for someone who ends the life of a child. but, those of us who would like him to feel the pain, I think, will be disappointed.
if you ever watch the first first 48 on amc, or lockup (sorry, its on msnbc)you’ll notice a couple of things.
the homeboys don’t seem to have enough gray matter to even understand the predicament they are in
they seem to enjoy life behind bars
So what?
It's not about bringing that baby back to life - it's about proteccting other babies from suffering the same fate.
Now I grant you, there is a philosophical difference of opinion on this matter. Some people feel that if criminals and potential criminals see that someone like this... thing... is convicted, and then whipped into a bloody mess in the public square with barbed wire, and then hanged by his own entrails while he's set on fire, that those criminals and potential criminals will think twice before commiting a heinous crime, and in that way, lives will be saved.
Some people disagree.
I confess to be of the former persuasion. YMMV.
It’s a damn shame his POS lawyer is not going to keep him company-the same lawyer who ran out of excuses for dead babies murder so he implied it was the parents who murdered him.
I was just adding to the headline what was missing.
Bubba gots a new b!tch ... for a while anyway.
De’Marquise
Bubba is just going to love that name .... “My new b!tch is a little cuties named De’Marquise!!!!
Only a barbaric society would agree to such a sentence.
Any civilized people, realizing their civilization was on the balance of the justice scales, would have sentenced him to be executed.
Yeah, it might wind up being the same thing, without all the decades of appeals.
Inmates take care of people like this, only a matter of time. He will die.
I imagine he won’t last as long as the late, unlamented Ariel Castro.
And we won't!
You may be right, but we have lost a golden opportunity to exhibit our civilized behavior. His execution should be scheduled for sometime September 2013.
To fob off his execution to some other lowlifes only reinforces our barbarity of behavior.
Again, the baby wasn’t white. Had a black father.
Teenagers can make adult decisions. In this case of murder, he should have faced the death penalty.
Life without parole in Georgia means just that. The scum will die in prison. Georgia is no liberal state. for murder the sentence means exactly what it is.
BUMP
“Georgia is no liberal state. for murder the sentence means exactly what it is.”
Good. Thank you.
“...and anyone who hurts a child is gonna burn until they’re done”
—Ray Wylie Hubbard
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