Inmate serving life sentence for murder shot, killed while trying to escape prison unit (Arkansas)

Twitter ^ | 07 APR 16 | Brandon C Riddle

[MplsSteve]

Regardless of whether this was a true escape attempt or suicide by prison guard, I’m not sorry about the final result.

[null and void]

What could the possible justification be for life w/o parole over killing the POS?

Plea bargain, it saves a few thousand dollars of court expenses.

[hal ogen]

Good...saves the taxpayer lots of money.

[PAR35]

Faster resolution than if he had gotten a death sentence instead of pleading out.

A clear win-win situation.

[PAR35]

Talking a death penalty case. It saves 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars to plead out instead of successfully going for a death penalty. Most of the numbers seem to be from anti-death penalty folks, and are suspect, but the costs of trials, multiple appeals, and death row housing are clearly many times higher than a plea, no appeal, and general population even in a high security prison.

[Jack Black]

Good riddance. Killed his wife and 8 month old boy. I wish more prisoners would "attempt escape".

Hmm, my reading of the article is he killed someone else's wife and child, and the poor dude found his dead wife on the driveway.

[null and void]

What price justice?

[luvie]

Good. Saving taxpayer money.

[PAR35]

Well, it was a white dude, so he might actually have been executed eventually. (The most common cause of death on death row is old age). But it would be unlikely to have happened as quickly as this. In 2012, it was an average of 198 months (16.5 years) and that includes the guys who throw in the towel. If someone doesn’t voluntarily give up, it’s going to be longer.

[null and void]

Gosh, Timothy McVeigh was martyred uh, executed after only three years...

[Navy Patriot]

Marksmanship medal for the alert prison guard, and authorization for notch on the stock of his firearm.

[PAR35]

The government needed to keep him quiet. And it matters who gets killed. And he was a white male. Let’s see how long the Muzzi Tsarnaev takes.

George Lott went 18 months from killing two prosecutors (and wounding two judges) to execution following a child custody case. (White male, of course.)

[cherry]

but he didn’t suffer....he died quickly....these animals need to FEEL pain the way their victims did...

[cherry]

the relatively quick execution of McVeigh always had me puzzled...where we're the leftists dribble protesting outside his prison?...the lawyers from the innocence project?...the nuns carrying signs?...

it seemed they just wanted him dead...dead men don't talk...