Clamoring to kill Malvo dead wrong

The Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | October 30, 2002 | Cynthia Tucker

[punster]

Cynthia Tucker needs a little lesson in practicality. If Malvo is dead, he will never kill anyone again.

[SUSSA]

Cynthia is the poster girl for what’s wrong with affirmative action. If she weren’t a black female, she wouldn’t be writing for a big newspaper, not even a rag like the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.

No respected news organization would have Cynthia writing for them even as a quota filler.

[Calamari]

Johnny Lee, just say your sorry and we'll forgive you.

Not! 17 years old is old enough to know that murdering another person is wrong. He deserves no mercy if convicted and should face the maximum penalty upto and including execution.

[Blue Screen of Death]

Now, see that's the trouble with all you right wing conservatives. You don't understand fairness. Here is the story... Malvo is 17 and his buddy is 41. If they both get life without the possibility of parole and both live up to the average life expentancy of 76 years, then Malvo will do much more prison time than Muhammad. Now anyone with any sense of liberal love'em concern can obviously see that young Malvo should not be punished more than the evil Muhammad, yet a sentence of life w/o parole would do just that. It is much fairer to execute both at the same time so that poor Malvo does not have to serve more time. Get it?

[Tallguy]

Everyone -- and I mean everyone -- is reporting that Malvo is 17 years old. REALLY?!! Based on what evidence?? He's in the country illegally AND he's carrying all manner of fake documents. Until I see an official JAMAICAN document that states his date of birth, I will remain skeptical.

Look at all the Caribbean baseball players in the Majors who have lied about their age, saying that they are much younger than they really are to enhance their prospects with scouts. Look at that Little League pitcher who phonied his age downward to remain elligible to play. I grant you that Malvo may not have these incentives to lie about his age, but they do prove that Caribbean age documentation is pretty unreliable.

[Tallguy]

Everyone -- and I mean everyone -- is reporting that Malvo is 17 years old. REALLY?!! Based on what evidence?? He's in the country illegally AND he's carrying all manner of fake documents. Until I see an official JAMAICAN document that states his date of birth, I will remain skeptical.

Look at all the Caribbean baseball players in the Majors who have lied about their age, saying that they are much younger than they really are to enhance their prospects with scouts. Look at that Little League pitcher who phonied his age downward to remain elligible to play. I grant you that Malvo may not have these incentives to lie about his age, but they do prove that Caribbean age documentation is pretty unreliable.

[mhking]

It used to be cynthia@ajc.com

It still is. They list it under a link "Email Tucker" at the top of the page.

[ArrogantBustard]

She's quite decorative. Too bad there's no brain behind that face.

[wideawake]

Yet I would guess she is in favor of a teenage girls "right" to have an abortion without consulting her parents.

Her position is consistent. She supports teens getting away with murder.

[Pete]

Here is what Cynthia said about those calling for McVeigh's execution.

Of course,the still-grieving residents of Oklahoma City are demanding justice, many of them convinced that putting McVeigh to death will begin to lend some sense of balance in the aftermath of his awful crime. I do not condemn them for that. I cannot imagine what I would feel if I had lost loved ones to McVeigh's murderous rage.

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Her only concern with his execution was that he would become a martyr.

[from occupied ga]

She's quite decorative. Too bad there's no brain behind that face.

There is a brain. Unfortunately it is totally dedicated to racism, liberalism and statism. The lady is not a moron, but rather a willing, knowing, active advocate of evil. She (along with every other member of the editorial board of the Atlanta fishwrapper) believes in the total expansion of the state. They feel that taxes are never high enough, government spending is never high enough, and there are never enough restrictive laws.

This (among other reasons) is why when the monthly attempts to get me to subscribe to the Urinal/Constipation come around I always tell the salesweasel that "I wouldn't have that piece of sh!t in my house if you paid me to take it." Some of the more agressive ones (the door to door type) still try to talk me into taking it.

[MissAmericanPie]

barf

[VRWC_minion]

I personally want to here more about Malvo's relationship with Muhammed before supporting the death penalty for him. I have some serious questions about how willing a participant Malvo really is. My instincts tell me there is something extremely odd about this relationship.

[per loin]

And now we see many of our judicial bureaucrats lining up to spend huge sums of our dollars on getting rid of these two. What should be considered is how they can be most cheaply tried, convicted, and executed.

[TexRef]

...if Malvo participated in the murders of innocents, he is well past rehabilitation, and society must be protected from him. The concerns of justice and public safety would both be satisfied with a sentence that forced Malvo -- again, if he is guilty -- to grow old and feeble behind bars.

The death penalty is not about protecting citizens from a person's actions — it is about punishment.

If we are only considering how well a punishment protects the rest of us from criminals, then life in prison = death penalty, but that is not the only consideration.

The death penalty says that you are no longer fit to be part of our society, that your deeds are egregious enough that you are no longer able to share any part of life with us.

Why should Malvo be allowed to "grow old and feeble" when his victims are already dead?

[Kenton]

Their enthusiasm is all the more unseemly since one of the suspects, John Lee Malvo, is apparently only 17 years old.

Well, Cynthi should take some comfort over the fact that he probably won't take his final gurney ride until he's over 18.

[paul51]

But prosecutors in Maryland and Virginia -- not to mention the U.S. Department of Justice -- have been giddy with excitement about the prospect of wielding the executioner's sword. Their enthusiasm is all the more unseemly since one of the suspects, John Lee Malvo, is apparently only 17 years old

Oh please. Take your binkie and your little cuddle bear and go back to sleep while someone else deals with this murdering animal. If ever there was an argument for execution, malvo is it.

[skeeter]

Oh boy, more matronly advise. Don't you understand those sniper killings were actually a cry for help?

[steve-b]

Shame on you for posting this without a much-needed BAZOOKA BARF ALERT.

[HangThemHigh]

"My instincts tell me there is something extremely odd about this relationship."

I think you are right on this, but the HTH theory is that while Muhammed was the ringleader, Malvo was the brains in this duo. It will be interesting, but I doubt we will ever find out.

In the meantime, I say let God sort em out.