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Anyone remember this a-hole?

Should have done it....

13 years ago. If you sentence somebody to die, they shouldn't spend 10+ years in jail waiting to die. What's the point of dragging it out? If you're going to drag it out you may as well just give them a life sentence and continue to spend 20-30k per year to house them in a prison.
 
ichy said:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...ed-the-nation-but-execution-below-2178679.php

It's been 13 years since James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death, and it looks like the first execution of one of his killers isn't getting a lot of attention.
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This is bringing up a lot of bad memories for the people of Jasper.

After James Byrd Jr. was murdered, we had people coming to Jasper that had no business being here. The black panthers showed up, people from the kkk showed up, and both groups marched down our streets and protested.

Jasper is a small community of about 8,000 people. We do not need people from the outside interfering in our business.

In a recent interview Lawrence Brewer showed no remorse for what happened. If anything, Brewer will be viewed as a martyr to white power groups. I hope that Brewer is buried in Huntsville and not Jasper. We do not need his grave being a shrine to white raciest groups.
 
Texashiker said:
If anything, Brewer will be viewed as a martyr to white power groups.
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Meh, I remember a lot of people saying they worried that Timothy McVeigh would be viewed as a martyr by some nutcases after he was juiced, but all he is now is worm food.
 
We'll kill you if you kill but please show remorse about your deed. We can't feel really proud to do what you did if we can't feel proud of breaking your pride. Your remorse will say to us we were right to kill you, that you agree with us that you were bad and deserved to die. Don't you dare rob us of that as we kill you. Don't you dare try to show us we are just like you, unforgiving and without organic shame.
 
ichy said:
Were you deprived of oxygen at birth?
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I guess you are talking to moonbeam?

I have to agree with Moonbeam, being remorseful reenforces society that we made the right decision.

Being right and wrong is just public opinion at the the time. 200 years ago Brewer would have had to repay the slave owner for the value of the property.
 
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Moonbeam said:
Don't you dare try to show us we are just like you, unforgiving and without organic shame.
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Wrong. Executing a man who was convicted of a horrific crime is in no way equivalent to dragging an innocent man to death behind a pick up truck. Your intellectually and morally bankrupt argument is the same as saying that incarcerating a criminal makes us the same as kidnappers.
 
Texashiker said:
I guess you are talking to moonbeam?

I have to agree with Moonbeam, being remorseful reenforces society that we made the right decision.

Being right and wrong is just public opinion at the the time. 200 years ago Brewer would have had to repay the slave owner for the value of the property.
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I disagree. Right and wrong are absolute, just societies are sometimes willing to dispense with right for expedient and advantageous. There's not a person born who doesn't inherently know that slavery (like murder) is wrong.

I agree with Moonie about this thing about remorse, though I disagree about this animal being anything like normal people. He dragged a human being to death; I don't give a Tinker's fuck if he is remorseful. I just care that his poison is stopped, preferably as soon as possible.
 
ichy said:
Irrelevant (and inaccurate, Israel hasn't executed anyone since Adolf Eichmann was hung).
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You're right. Either way not many countries use the death penalty and it's nice to point out.

I grabbed that list from Wikipedia btw. It's not always right.
 
randomrogue said:
You're right. Either way not many countries use the death penalty and it's nice to point out.

I grabbed that list from Wikipedia btw. It's not always right.
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Did you know that the sicko mass-shooter in Norway faces a maximum of 30 years in prison because they're such "humanitarians" that not only do they not have the DP, they don't have life sentences either? F that, they can sneer at us for our "barbaric" ways all they want.
 
ichy said:
Did you know that the sicko mass-shooter in Norway faces a maximum of 30 years in prison because they're such "humanitarians" that not only do they not have the DP, they don't have life sentences either? F that, they can sneer at us for our "barbaric" ways all they want.
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My opinion, Europe is starting to go through the growing pains of multiculturalism, like what the US went through.

If race or religion crimes increase, the penalties for those crimes will also increase.

If you look at the history of the US, at one point or another it was legal for whites to kill just about every ethnic group. But over time, the opinions of society and the laws changed.

Norway may not have stiff laws on the books right now, but if hate crimes increase, I look for new laws to get passed.
 
ichy said:
Did you know that the sicko mass-shooter in Norway faces a maximum of 30 years in prison because they're such "humanitarians" that not only do they not have the DP, they don't have life sentences either? F that, they can sneer at us for our "barbaric" ways all they want.
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Too lazy to look the thread up but there are measures within the law that can keep him in for life.
 
ichy said:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...ed-the-nation-but-execution-below-2178679.php

It's been 13 years since James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death, and it looks like the first execution of one of his killers isn't getting a lot of attention. I guess the anti-DP crowd knows how silly it would make their whole "capital punishment is racist" argument. I'm glad that Brewer is about to get juiced, it's just a shame it took 13 years to get here.
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3 years max before death would make more sense, we sure do drag out the death sentences. The good thing with the long sentences though, and this is only for a tiny % of cases is when the perp is innocent and that time bought him his life back.

As far as this specific case goes, its not like a black man has never killed a white person for being white before. I dont see any reason to publicize this execution for its racial aspect alone since its not unique.
 
ichy said:
Did you know that the sicko mass-shooter in Norway faces a maximum of 30 years in prison because they're such "humanitarians" that not only do they not have the DP, they don't have life sentences either? F that, they can sneer at us for our "barbaric" ways all they want.
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Is the execution going to bring back the victim? No. Has capital punishment been shown to be any great deterrent? No. It's sole purpose seems to be to make people feel good. Why do we need capital punishment for that?
 
Gonad the Barbarian said:
No physical evidence linking this guy to the crime. Seven of nine prosecution witnesses recanting their testimony. Execution goes through tomorrow. Yeah, the death penalty is awesome and certainly not racist.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/20/report-death-row-inmate-davis-denied-clemency/
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Witnesses can not come back 20 years later and change their story. The truth should have come out in 1991, not 2011.

Which is more of an in-justice, letting a man sit in prison for 20+ years before the witnesses decide tell the truth; or put an innocent man to death.
 
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