Jessica Lunsford's killer eligible for the DP!!
 

Yes I have very mixed feelings about the death penalty, but not for this bastard. The learned Judge just issued his ruling that Couey is not "retarded" (his words, not mine) and is therefore eligible to be removed from the gene pool.

I for one now hope that the Judge will follow the jury's recommendation (10-2) and put him on the row.

I know this thread will probably only last ten posts or so, but I had to get it off my chest.

Remind me who Jessica Lunsford is, please.

Beautiful nine year old girl, kidnapped, raped, kept in a closet and then buried alive by her across the street neighbor in Fla. two years ago.

I too have mixed feelings about the death penalty except when you read what happened to Jessica I don't want my taxes feeding this slimball. I don't have children and can't imagine what her mother and father must be going through. I think the guillotine would be appropriate for him.

I have no such problems, drag the POS out back and shoot him for all I care. My heart don't bleed for such criminals...

I have no such qualms about the DP. To me it is very simple. As members of society we all enter into a social "contract" with one another. When a member of the group breaks the contract, by doing something like what this waste of skin did, he forfeits the right to live in our society.

Separation from society, by mean of the DP, is the price he pays for his actions.

:grim::behead::grim:

Capital punishment, the solution to recidivism.

Ah, something the Taliban and you agree upon. :grim:

It's going to cost you more to kill him though.

The Taliban's reasons for the death penalty are what they are...but, 16something years ago, a repeat offender (tried and convicted for murder in the '60s, parolled in the '70s) abducted and murdered a close friend of my wife. It would have never happened had Kenneth McDuff remained in jail or, paid for his crime the first time in the system.

The TDC parole board and judges involved with his release to the outside world should have been convicted of murder and sentenced to death also.

dang it! I was wondering how long and how much it costs to do that with appeals and such. Any lawyersout there Benz LGB or JD know?

Well put.

The felony-murder rule should have been invoked against them.

As long as we have a system of laws, that includes sufficient checks and balances to make sure that the innocent is protected, then I have no problem wiht the DP.

To compare the DP, as practiced here, to what the Taliban and Al-Queda do is intellectually dishonest.

I am willing to gamble my life on the American judicial system. I am not so eager to take the same chance in front of a Taliban-camel court. (That's a play on the term kangaroo-courts and is not meant as an ethnic slur).

Incidentally, while the number of wrongly convicted peresons may have been unacceptably high in the past, that is bound to change in the very near future. The widespread use of new investigatory techniques, such as DNA testing will almost guarantee that no innocent man (or woman) is ever wrongfully convicted, especially in a capital case.

BTW, it is far cheaper to execute a convicted criminal than to keep him locked up in prison for the rest of his life. The problem lies in the series of endless appeals that stretch out the process longer than it has to be.

R.Leo, I am sorry about what happened to your wife's friend. That is a horrible ending to a life...and a nightmare for the surviving relatives and close friends.

The simple truth is that our heralded judical system has been shown to be flawed, whether it be a capital case or even a misdemeanor. There's no "do-over" after the execution when evidence of prosecutorial misconduct or advances in forensic sciences clears a convicted person.

Thats why they should do it like the do in China. The court rules he is guilty and sentences him. 1 minute later the guard grabs him, asks him if he wants a smoke or a blindfold, leads him out to the court yard, and bam. Charge the next of kin for the cost of the bullit and funeral. If there is no next of kin dispose of the body in the cheapest way possible.

A bullit only costs $.50, this lethal injection crap is BS.