Posted on 08/12/2016 9:55:23 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Terri Been’s voice shook as she read a long text message from her niece.
“I had a nightmare about my dad last night,” Paige Rowan told her aunt in the text.
Rowan described a dream in which she watched helplessly as the execution needle pierced her father’s skin.
She woke up screaming, panicking and feeling hopeless, she told Been.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
It was Dallas County. It happened.
Misleading headline, misleading article. He deserves execution.
Why would you ever take the Washington Post’s word for the fact of the case? They lie! A jury found him guilty based on actual evidence, not Washington Post spin and b.s. and recommended a sentence of death, which the court imposed. No problem other than that the Post never met someone on death row they wouldn’t try to save (other than Timothy McVeigh, of course).
Yea, being an accomplice hooks you up to the final crime. If you agree to rob a store and drive the car and the guy inside smokes the clerk, you’re on the hook for murder.
It’s an old common law rule from 500 years ago, it’s nothing new.
>>What do you guys believe, as opposed to just making it up?
I believe in God, the Father, creator of heaven and earth.....etc.
I do not trust the government. Capital punishment requires a serious belief in the honesty of the government. In 1989, a conservative could trust in government. Today, only a fool trusts government enough to allow it to take a life.
As in Religiously?
Link?
I absolutely agree with you. I’d love to see a bunch of sorry ass prisoners sweating like crazy in the heat busting up rocks for no reason other than giving them something to do.
If criminals knew that their time would be nothing but hard labor, I don’t think as many would repeat their crimes.
Link?
What ever professor.
"I'm shakin' it boss. I'm shakin' it."
Interestingly, when capital punishment was more accepted, the rules of evidence were more strict. Prosecution required two eyewitnesses and if it could be shown one had lied, the penalty for that infraction also was the death sentence. Additionally, the hands of the two witnesses also were to cast the first stone in the execution of the capital punishment. If it later was discovered they had given false testimony, they also could be charged with murder and false witness, also incurring the death sentence. Consequently, there were far fewer homicide cases brought to trial and the prosecution rate far less than today.
On what principal do you take your stand? Where is this principle to be found and explained as part of Conservative doctrine?
My guess is that you meant Christian principle, not Conservative principle. And even on that, it is often debated as to what the Bible says about the death penalty.
Ed
This happened in my town. This guy should’ve fried years ago.
Chris Keeran was well known, and liked in the recovery community. He really was a light to those wishing to turn their life around, and become responsible members of society.
A lot of my clients in the recovery community really had a hard time coping with his loss. There is a building here named for him.
>>>It’s always a 100% deterrent for at least one person.<<<
THANK-YOU! At least somebody gets the drift!
Most people don’t bother to find out what the legal penalty is for a crime they’re about to commit. Therefore, if a death penalty is a possibility, they may or may not be aware of it. Most people who commit crimes believe they will get away with it, and in many cases, they do.
The article went on to say that the man was of low intelligence...80 is what they said. The article didn’t specify which scale was used to determine that number, nor did it describe which set of tests was used to determine that number.
The man’s mother describes her son as an 8 year old in a man’s body. Well mom, 8 year olds know that murder and stealing is wrong. 8 year olds are not imbeciles. but yes, they can be tricked. Adults can also be deceived/tricked.
I am absolutely NOT opposed to the death penalty for the GUILTY. AND, if there is question of guilt, then as far as I’m concerned, neither do they belong in prison.
The article describes some areas that might possibly be used to challenge guilt, but whether or not a court is willing to look at that and offer a retrial remains to be seen.
I’m sorry for the young woman who could loose her dad. If one of MY family were on death row, I wouldn’t be thrilled about it either, and would agonize. However, I DO know first hand what it is to loose a family member to absolutely cold blooded murder with absolute zero regard for the individual, knowing full well that death will occur and doing nothing to prevent it. And if one of MY own EVER did that to someone else, I’d be tempted to put him/her in the ground myself. Not that I would, only that I’d be tempted, because I would be that appalled. I taught my family better than that.
There’s a YUGE difference between murdering the innocent...like that unborn, and a death penalty for a severe criminal against society. If a person doesn’t know the difference, then he/she’s a dangerous person in my eyes.
Cleansing society from ‘evil’ like cold blooded murder, rape, pedophilia and the like, is the job of government. It’s the GOD GIVEN responsibility of government. They should never, ever, be let out on the streets EVER, nor should they be in a position where they might escape, injure someone else (even a prisoner) or be released by some idiot government authority. There is only ONE way to make that so.
Sorry, I didn’t actually read the entire article. I took it and the freeper comments at face value, thinking he did not actually kill.
And his family claims he has the mind of an 8 year old. Yeah, just a nice guy who never did anything wrong, was turning his life around, good to his mama and an aspiring rap artist.... or whatever the meme was back then for low life white scum.
Is the world a better place with Charlie Manson still alive or with Ted Bundy dead. Some people just need killing.
One of my clients was found guilty in a triple murder in this same town where Woods and Reneau killed Chris Keeran.
At least at the time of his execution, he manned up.
Final Words:
“I would like to apologize and say I’m sorry but words seem so hollow and cheap,” Gallamore said in a handwritten statement distributed after his execution. He had declined to make a final statement from the death chamber gurney. “Their death should not have happened, but it did. I’m so sorry that all of this took place.”
Hey Woods, man up.
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