Melvin Alvarado (left), and Jonathan Ariel Lopez-Torres (right) Photo: booking photo/KHOU.com
Sounds like they got off to a good start before they were interrupted.
Mixed emotions on this one.
On one hand, this guy deserves all the punishment that can be meted out to him. On the other hand, the man delivering the punishment is a suspected murderer himself.
Hard to feel good about any of this.
While I have no sympathy for this unhung murderer and think he should receive the death penalty, this is a national disgrace.
We jail people first to keep them from running, then, if convicted, because they were sentenced to confinement.
We do not sentence them to be beaten or sodomized, and our failure to prevent such things is inexcusable.
Just because you’re a crook doesn’t mean you’re not a patriot;)
black vs brown?
The reason we may have “mixed emotions” on something like this is because the government doesn’t enforce the law. If this illegal had been deported and stayed deported (that is, the border was secure), he wouldn’t have kept coming back in to commit crime and the little girl would be alive.
Vigilante justice, while emotionally satisfying, is dangerous to endorse or excuse. We don’t even know why Williams did it—perhaps he just hates Latinos or maybe voices were speaking to him.
Melvin Alvarado (left), and Jonathan Ariel Lopez-Torres (right) Photo: booking photo/KHOU.com
Look, if someone wants me to cheer for the prisoner-thug who beat the illegal-immigrant-prisoner, they can forget it.
That is not “justice” in this country.
Yes, the feds and the courts are not doing justice for the American people when it comes to illegal immigration, but vigilante justice in our prisons is no answer, it never is.
Give the American who kicked the crimalien’s ass 30 days off for PROPER behavior.
nurse him back to health and skin that POS alive... then set his wretched azz on fire!!!“
American criminal kicks illegal arse.
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Sometimes justice is served out on this earthly plane.
Even in jails and prison.
But ultimately when they end up in the “next phase”.
Ping...
Not related to this story but like so many stories that get lost... I was wondering recently what the outcome was of all those women getting killed just across the mexico border?
Did they ever catch the killer(s) and are they still happening?
The Federal government’s job is to protect its citizens from external enemies.
ARRESTS, DEPORTATIONS
January 2005: Melvin Alvarado convicted of driving while intoxicated. Sentenced to 18 days.
November 2007: Alvarado convicted of driving while intoxicated. Sentenced to 60 days.
April 2008: Immigration officials remove Alvarado to El Salvador.
May 2009: Immigration officials remove Alvarado to El Salvador.
Source: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Social justice?