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Geoghan's Death Is Described
Washington Post ^ | 8/25/03 | Jonathan Finer

Posted on 08/24/2003 8:30:56 PM PDT by hole_n_one

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To: JulieRNR21
The attacker, whom authorities identified as Joseph L. Druce, jammed the electronically operated cell door to prevent guards from opening it.

How do you suppose that an ordinary, run-of-the-mill inmate goes about "jamming" an electronically operated cell door so that it can't be opened?

41 posted on 08/24/2003 9:02:19 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one
Druce . . . repeatedly jumped from the bed in the cell onto Geoghan's motionless body and beat the defrocked priest with his fists.

I am outraged the Matt Drudge would do something like this. It is one thing to maintain a conservative web site, but it is altogether different to take the law into your own hands and . . .

What? It wasn't Matt Drudge? It was Joseph Druce? Never mind.

42 posted on 08/24/2003 9:02:54 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Your Ad Here)
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To: McGavin999
Wonder if this prisoner was one of the priest's victems?....

Unlikely but he's their hammer of justice.
43 posted on 08/24/2003 9:03:25 PM PDT by dennisw (G_d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
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To: Palladin
Could Druce have been one of Geoghan's victims, years ago?

Druce is an immensely sick, cold-blooded murderer. I would bet that is about as intelligable and sensible as any explanation you are likely to find. Geoghan isn't the first man he has killed. If they don't lock Druce away in solitary, Geoghan won't be the last man he kills either.

Seems to me Jeffrey Dahmer also checked out this way, didn't he?

44 posted on 08/24/2003 9:03:46 PM PDT by Kevin Curry
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To: hole_n_one
Druce, 37, was immediately isolated and will be charged with murder, investigators said. Massachusetts does not have a death penalty, so it is unclear what additional punishment he could receive since he is serving a life sentence for strangling a man in 1988.

Still think you can prevent a murderer from committing further murders by giving him life in prison?

45 posted on 08/24/2003 9:05:05 PM PDT by TheDon (Why do liberals always side with the enemies of the US?)
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To: hh007
Of course, I agree with you. Child molestors do not survive in prison. When the judge passed sentence, he must have known Geoghan would die violently. Everybody knew. Geoghan knew. No surprises here. Time to move on.

Geoghan's death send a strong message to others who would terrorize children.

46 posted on 08/24/2003 9:05:42 PM PDT by ex-Texan (My tag line is broken !)
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
I laugh at the thought of the depraved sick f--k being stomped to death.

You're not a follower of Christ are you?

No, I didn't think so.

47 posted on 08/24/2003 9:05:52 PM PDT by sinkspur (God's law is written on men's hearts, not a stone monument.)
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To: Fred Mertz
Since having suffered the horror of being sexually abused as a child, I can understand the mentallity of the perverts killer.

Fred, don't be so quick to judge.
48 posted on 08/24/2003 9:06:02 PM PDT by wheathead
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To: Congressman Billybob
Since this was both a "free murder" and a planned one -- rather than spur of the moment -- the immediate question is what the killer stood to gain. Does he have family or friends? Have they suddenly received some money? You see where this could be headed.

Like this was a contract killing?

also .. I'll bet the family of Geoghan will sue the State of Massachusetts for not giving better security

49 posted on 08/24/2003 9:06:16 PM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
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To: dogbyte12
What if he killed a guard?

His life expectancy would be dramatically shortened.

50 posted on 08/24/2003 9:06:48 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: hole_n_one
Y'know, it never seems to fail that when states get in deep budgetary doodoo like most are these days, their corrections department budgets are slashed more than those in just about any other area, including welfare, discretionary spending, and any sort of boondoggle you can come up with. One guard for that entire area? Putting a known gay-hater in the same area with a pedophilic priest well-known for homosexual assault on young boys? Not good and not acceptable. Budget cuts or no, the Massachusetts corrections people are in a world of hurt on this one.

I will shed no tears for the Father going to meet his Father and receive his judgement, but this wasn't the way to do it. The murderer committed a freebie, and the state of Massachusetts is now wide open for lawsuits from the "good" Father's family, if any.

}:-)4
51 posted on 08/24/2003 9:07:50 PM PDT by Moose4 (It's rusting, it's paid for and it's bigger than your car. Don't get in my way.)
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To: Kevin Curry
Dahmer had his head bashed in with a porcelain toilet.
His killer was mentally ill. But I still think some of the victims' relatives may have arranged it.
52 posted on 08/24/2003 9:08:04 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
My thoughts too.
53 posted on 08/24/2003 9:08:59 PM PDT by dennisw (G_d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
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To: hole_n_one
Good deal.......no safe haven for a child abuser........Stay Safe H'n 1
54 posted on 08/24/2003 9:09:56 PM PDT by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: wheathead
I hear you, but I don't agree with you. I think prison is punishment enough. To be brutally beat and strangled to death in the liberal cesspool of the northeast, Massachussetts, doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy.

If the state gave him the death penalty then it would be okay with me. This ain't right.
55 posted on 08/24/2003 9:11:11 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: JulieRNR21
''As victims we will live in our own prison forever, but Geoghan got off easy. He is never going to hurt anyone again, but he still had a lot of penance to do on earth,'' Linscott said, biting his lip at a news conference......

He is doing penance in hell.
56 posted on 08/24/2003 9:11:41 PM PDT by dennisw (G_d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
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To: sinkspur
you make me sick.
57 posted on 08/24/2003 9:12:23 PM PDT by wheathead
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To: wheathead
Only one correction officer was on duty in the protective custody unit at the time....

Nice description, eh?

58 posted on 08/24/2003 9:12:53 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: Moose4
Putting a known gay-hater in the same area with a pedophilic priest well-known for homosexual assault on young boys? Not good and not acceptable.

Maybe even intentional.

59 posted on 08/24/2003 9:14:10 PM PDT by Kevin Curry
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To: ex-Texan
I agree with you. I suppose I should have at least a tiny, little pang of sympathy for the child rapist, but I don't. Not in the slightest.

Let God sort 'em out...
60 posted on 08/24/2003 9:14:21 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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