Posted on 07/22/2024 6:00:44 AM PDT by bitt
A convicted murderer who fatally shot an off-duty NYPD officer during a robbery in the Bronx more than 40 years ago will soon be released on parole — the 42nd cop killer in the state granted their freedom in seven years.
Jose Curet, who gunned down Officer George Werdann on Feb. 21, 1982, will be sprung from Fishkill Correctional Facility after the Parole Board decided in favor of his release earlier this month, state records show.
Retired NYPD Lt. Donald Pagani was a childhood friend of the murdered 23-year-old and attended 16 hearings to try to convince the board to keep Curet, now 62, behind bars.
“Our primary mission was to make sure that he was in jail for as long as Georgie’s father was alive,” Pagani, 64, told The Post. “Our second goal was that he stayed in prison until he died.”
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The death penalty never works, becausae it’s never applied, anymore. Hasn’t been, for decades.
The death penalty works. It’s those who refuse to apply it who give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
we need some serious political changes and in turn serious no overturnable laws in place to protect our law enforcement as well as us. It went from life for the average joes, to 7 years, and law enforcement, death penalty, to life, to now 7. If we are to survive as a nation we need serious change years
Swift execution of convicted murderers prevents problems like this, and many others.
The leftists screech for “life in prison” instead of the death penalty, and then don’t even stand by their word.
Come on down to Texas. As Ron White says, “ if you kill somebody in my state, we will kill you back “.
They should take jobs as live targets at Police Shooting Ranges.
The police are nothing but enforcers for the government. When you have a good government you have good police, when you have a totalitarian government you have totalitarian police. As we slide into hell my deference for police goes to hell as well.
I’ve always admired TX. (Just too hot and humid for me)
Let the Democrats alone pay his health care costs.
All the more reason to make sure scumbag never sees the inside of a court room.
Disgusting phrase.
How many Citizen Killers have been released or given light sentences since 1982?
The juxtaposition of your post and your tagline is ironic.
The death penalty in N.Y. State was re-instated when Republican George Pataki was elected Governor. We also got a Three Strikes Law for violent offenders in the mid-80's. The NY Court of Appeals ruled them both unconstitutional...the death penalty in 2004, and the Three Strikes Law in 2010.
At first I couldn't figure out why the journalist hadn't mention a wife and child in the article and then mentioned the son with just a sentence like this. But I finally remembered that NYC numbers their schools. I thought the PS must stand for Public School but then saw on a search result that it means primary school and voilà, that must mean the MS stands for Middle School. I suspect the P. O. does not stand for Post Office Box, but that is as far as I could get.
By not actually implementing the DP, we are cheapening life. The DP sends the message that there is a price for a human life, payable only by -—a human life.
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