“The only thing cruel and unusual about the death penalty are the delays.” - El Rushbo
Has it gone to scotus yet?
I hope DNA evidence has conclusively proved he did it. And that he didn’t have a DA like Binger who withheld evidence.
High profile? Mississippi just executed a White man and it wasn’t “high profile.”
Racism infects everything.
A jock an do no wrong.
No sympathy for the victim or his children, of course, from the Hollyweird or sports celebrity crowd.
None whatsoever...
The gun was found in his bedroom in the ceiling, wrapped in his bandana, with his DNA on the weapon.
The victims sister said she saw him pull the trigger.
That is real evidence, not circumstantial at all.
I am not really sure how he failed to get a fair trial.
I won’t know how to feel about this case until Carrot Top chimes in.
Justice delayed...
EDMOND, Okla. (KFOR) – It is a case many are familiar with both locally and around the world.
In 1999, Paul Howell was only 45-years-old when he was shot and killed in his own driveway in front of his sister and two young daughters.
They were completely unaware they were being followed. Prosecutors say 19-year-old Julius Jones and his close friend, Christopher Jordan, had set out to steal a Suburban. They parked in the Braum’s parking lot and waited.
We all know how relevant having a Heisman Trophy is to Innocence in a Murder.
Who cares what some dumbass thinks just because he can throw a football? The only injustice is that this scumbag was not executed years ago.
I think the Governor will follow the rec of board. Give him life.
I do not trust government. Government is run by people, and people are sinners, or if you're secular, unethical. That is a universal trait of man: wrath, lust, greed, sloth, pride, envy, and gluttony (the motivations which leads us astray).
Government is made up of people, and these people are no more moral/ethical when in power, in fact they often become WORSE. Power corrupts.
Politicians are corrupt. Bureaucracies just follow the mood of society and the hand which feeds them. They are not immune from doing wrong and if the DOJ gave the order to confiscate all private fire arms, most agents would rationalize this order and follow it (do not believe that? Look at LA and Katrina with the illegal confiscation of private weapons). The media has no moral compass. So called justice especially in America is highly political, class justice, and socially relative.
I do not disagree with the death penalty per say. It's final and some folks you never want out on the street again. It brings closure, it can have a deterrent effect, it could be cost effective were it not for the inefficiency of government.
However, do you really trust government with the power of life and death over it's citizens?
***Look at 6 January and the distorted justice for the protesters.
***Look at the DOJ going on a crusade against parents at school boards at the request of a teachers union.
***Look at the “set-up” of General Flynn.
These are conservative examples of where politics has crept into so called “justice.” Of course there are examples on the other side as well.
Do you really want an imperfect, corrupt, sinful person to have that sort of power over another?
For me, personally, it's not an issue where I have some great concern for the culprit, but it scares the shit out of me that a government has this sort of power because once you give a sinner drunk on power those sort of powers, what will they do? Do they abuse FISA laws? Yes. Do they respect privacy rights? No. Anywhere government is given power, over time you will see abuses in that power.
Governor commuted the sentence. Life.