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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:40 PM Original message |
After 34 years, a tiny angel can finally rest in peace. Her killer (stepfather) has died in prison |
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Lithos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. As the father of a 4 year old daughter |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I will never understand it either, Lithos... |
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Lithos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. I am a long time advocate against the Death Penalty |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. This case is what made me, as a 14 year old, a staunch supporter of the death penalty |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. Seems to me you're confusing justice with vengeance |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Seems you're confusing me with someone who gives a damn about your opinion |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. More of an objective fact than an opinion |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. No, it's still just your opinion... |
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hatesthegop (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 09:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. agreed |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 10:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
31. What seems unjust about the death penalty in this case? |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. Sick b@stards. I hope the memory of that poor childs final hours tormented them every hour. |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Several people tried to kill him in jail before he ever went to trial, while he was in County lockup |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
4. I prefer to ignore the Old Testament. |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. What does that have to do with anything? |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:18 PM Original message |
The root of the thinking that gives us the death penalty |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
7. How much taxpayer money was spent on free health care for this monster? |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:53 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Way too much... n/t |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:02 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Considerably less than the cost of executing them... |
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npk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. How much does a needle and a wooden box cost |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 10:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. Executing them is quite cheap. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. Legal fees on appeals of his death sentence would have been far more expensive |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:12 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Shouldn't need appeals with witnesses and a confession... |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:18 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. If the system was foolproof, no you wouldn't need appeals |
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Terra Alta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. that poor little girl. |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:13 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. Yes, they were monsters... not even fit for prison society.. n/t |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
11. Rest In Peace, Melisha |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
18. He never saw the outside of a cell and the taxpayers didn't spend money on appeals |
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Indepatriot (119 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
20. Feelin ya Ghost, I have a 4 year-old daughter |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. I agree that mostakes have been made in the past, but there were no doubts here..n/t |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
22. Do you think her sprit has been waiting 34 hyears for him to die? |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:18 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Maybe it did, do you have anything to prove it didn't? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:19 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Reality. |
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AnneD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
29. I remember reading of this when I was much younger.... |
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