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BTK Gets 10 Consecutive Life Terms (175 Yrs. w/o Parole)
CBS News ^ | 8/18/05

Posted on 08/18/2005 2:15:48 PM PDT by gopwinsin04

'Bind, Torture and Kill' serial killer Dennis Rader was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms Thursday during a tear filled hearing in which his victims called him a monster and said he should be 'thrown into a deep hole and left to rot.'

The sentence of a minimum of 175 years without chance of parole was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver.

The state of Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed.

Earlier Rader stood in front of a courtroom filled with his victim's family members, tell the court he believes he is a Christian and he knew he would be caught for his crimes.

Instead of asking forgiveness or a lenient sentence, Rader rambled off details about his series of murders. In a bizarre moment of triumph, he ran through a list of people he wanted to think.

He also told the judge he was honest and cooperated with police after his arrest, then said 'he blew so much smoke' in telling his story that 'nobody knows fact from fiction.'

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: btk; btkkiller; deathpenalty; dennisrader
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To: Pajamajan
I hope they house him with the general population in prison

He needs to be in the general population of the nastiest prison we have...wherever that is. I guess that wouldn't be Gitmo, huh?

101 posted on 08/19/2005 2:09:33 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: gopwinsin04
he ran through a list of people he wanted to think

duh

102 posted on 08/19/2005 2:10:32 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: Cementjungle
"He needs to be in one of the nastiest prison's we have....that wouldn't be Gitmo"

No, not club Gitmo. However, we could turn him over to Zarchawi and his Al Queda co-horts.

When they make their demands, we could say "no", you keep him, we don't want him, do what you want.

103 posted on 08/19/2005 2:16:07 AM PDT by Pajamajan ("Where there's life there's hope"-Terri Schindler's message to the world.- Never Forget.)
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To: Pajamajan

They'd forthwith recruit him to the Religion of Pieces (tm)


104 posted on 08/19/2005 2:17:35 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: Pajamajan
Note to voters in his home state. You need to put a measure on the ballot making the death penalty retroactive from now on.
Silliness. Even Scalia would jump at the chance of knocking that hanging curve out of the park.
105 posted on 08/19/2005 2:19:57 AM PDT by jayhorn (when i hit the drum, you shake the booty.)
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To: jayhorn

Oh, so you think it's just fine the BTK is still breathing?


106 posted on 08/19/2005 2:28:53 AM PDT by Pajamajan ("Where there's life there's hope"-Terri Schindler's message to the world.- Never Forget.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
"They'd forthwith recruit him"

You're right, he'd enjoy it, fit right in with the Islamofacists, he'd probablly end up running the place

. All the more reason he should be made to assume room temperature.

107 posted on 08/19/2005 2:34:14 AM PDT by Pajamajan ("Where there's life there's hope"-Terri Schindler's message to the world.- Never Forget.)
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To: Pajamajan

There must be a pool somewhere on the date that BTK will get BTK'd.


108 posted on 08/19/2005 2:38:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: HiTech RedNeck

LOL!


109 posted on 08/19/2005 2:44:00 AM PDT by Pajamajan ("Where there's life there's hope"-Terri Schindler's message to the world.- Never Forget.)
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To: Pajamajan

Can't understand why you Americans think a quick and painless death by execution is appropriate for this unsavoury character. Incarceration without any hope of release, and constant fear of much worse physical pain at the hands of other inmates, or lifelong solitary confinement, is a far worse fate. The important thing is surely that he doesn't get out again.


110 posted on 08/19/2005 2:48:18 AM PDT by ukman
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To: ukman

A cuckoo like him will probably regard prison as just another curiosity.


111 posted on 08/19/2005 2:49:53 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: ukman
"Can't understand why you Americans think a quick and painless death by execution is appropriate for this unsavory character?"

As long as he draws breath there's a chance he could escape and hurt someone else. I suggest you read what this "man" did. He makes Jack the Ripper look like one of the Teletubbies. He's pure evil.

I look at the death penalty the same way as I view the necessity of having to put down a mad dog. It has to be done for safety of the community.

Why anyone would want a monster like this kept alive at tax payer expense is beyond me. Why should he get to experience any pleasure at all?-Why should he get to smile, enjoy eating a meal, the sunshine, anything at all when he so brutally took that away from his victims? (Heck the BTK gets pleasure from drawing ropes and nooses on pictures in magazines. )

He's not remorseful, he's proud of himself. So he gets to eat, drink and defecate at taxpayer expense.I'd rather see him sent on to final judgment.

If it's so awful to stay alive in prison, as opposed to being executed, how come death row inmates make appeal, after appeal, after appeal, trying to stay alive?

112 posted on 08/19/2005 3:15:03 AM PDT by Pajamajan ("Where there's life there's hope"-Terri Schindler's message to the world.- Never Forget.)
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To: gopwinsin04
And his deluded Lutheran pastor says he still will be forgiven by God!

If so, God is diminished by it.

This man should be kept alive, and his victims' families in charge of his daily activities. They should retain Clive Barker for ideas.

113 posted on 08/19/2005 3:39:01 AM PDT by beavus (Hussein's war. Bush's response.)
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To: conservative cat
I don't know if he necessarily stopped his killing in 1994. I just don't think he confessed to any post-DP killings.

No evidence has come to light indicating any murders after 1986 I believe.

114 posted on 08/19/2005 3:43:03 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Pajamajan
Note to voters in his home state. You need to put a measure on the ballot making the death penalty retroactive from now on.

Sure. Just as soon as 2/3rds of the rest of you amend the Constitution to allow ex post facto laws.

115 posted on 08/19/2005 3:45:51 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Pajamajan

Make that 3/4ths of you.


116 posted on 08/19/2005 3:48:05 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: hercuroc
Why does everybody think he'll have it so hard in general population?

I never said that...but he won't have any chance of being "Dahmered" in solitary confinement.

117 posted on 08/19/2005 4:31:15 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit
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To: bill1952
Yeah, funny how that works, isn't it? I have seen the personal benefit of this right on several occasions. Now with the expanded "Castle Doctrine" here in Florida, look for crime to drop further and faster.
118 posted on 08/19/2005 5:44:05 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ukman

As long as a lawyer draws breath, there is hope of release.
And we have to put him up for life and pay for it.

When the dead are scattered like leaves, it isn't right that he should use the same air as his victims did.


119 posted on 08/19/2005 5:51:46 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: gopwinsin04
I heard this morning that Rader is going to be taken to the Correctional Facility at El Dorado where he will be held under maximum security. For him that will mean an 8 by 10 cell where he will be kept for 23 hours per day. One hour per day his arms and legs will be shackled and he will spend an hour in the exercise yard, still chained, watched by up to 4 guards. If there truly is a fate worse than death then Rader's future is about as close as they come.

Oh, and he'll have the Carrs as neighbors, but they won't be communicating.

120 posted on 08/19/2005 6:04:45 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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