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Post by Californian on Apr 13, 2010 9:58:44 GMT -6
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future (John F. Kennedy) "There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair."~ JFK
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Post by Californian on Apr 9, 2010 21:01:46 GMT -6
It was in the late 1950s in Ohio, when I was in grade school. I remember a newspaper article about some murderer (don't even remember who it was) and the article had a picture of the electric chair.
There was quite a bit of controversy at the time because the governor, Mike Disalle, had a habit of commuting death sentences and it was widely believed that cost him re-election.
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Post by Californian on Apr 9, 2010 8:00:17 GMT -6
So "Californian" is the prototype of a living Nazometer. Everytime the word Austria comes up, he gives a squeal. You whine like a little girl, Kraut.
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Post by Californian on Apr 8, 2010 18:13:26 GMT -6
Why on earth would you want to whack six million Jews? Ask your grandparents.
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Post by Californian on Apr 7, 2010 22:03:55 GMT -6
Every year a couple of states do away with it. Just a matter of time... Yeah, but we'll still have the Austrians around in case we want to whack six million Jews.
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Post by Californian on Apr 7, 2010 17:46:24 GMT -6
they'll never improve upon high powered rifles at a ridiculouly close range. never happen. Even the ancient 30-06 has a muzzle energy of over 2800 ft/lbs with a light bullet. At close range, it's like being hit with a truck. I've shot feral pigs at 200 yards or better with a 30-06 and had them go down like a ton of bricks without even a squeal. All this science in the name of being "merciful" slays me. (pardon pun.) We're killing the guy. Git r' done! ;D
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Post by Californian on Mar 31, 2010 8:43:16 GMT -6
The scummy-ass Richard Allan Davis was tried in my county (on a change of venue) for the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas, who was 14. Naturally, he had a previous record as long as his arm. He actually laughed during the interview in which he confessed to kidnapping and killing her. The bastard. They can't kill him soon enough for me.
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Post by Californian on Mar 30, 2010 20:27:30 GMT -6
executing people isn't the only option, be creative Too true, but the voters like it. Given that, what's your problem? This is besides the point that you're not even a citizen here. Aren't there any Internet bulletin boards about problems in New Zealand you can surf over to and solve?
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Post by Californian on Mar 30, 2010 20:20:46 GMT -6
Children have a natural inclination to know what has become of their parents. If they aren't told the truth, and shown the truth of where their parents are, then they start thinking the worst. Considering this clown's murderous proclivities, how much worse could it be? ;D
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Post by Californian on Mar 30, 2010 17:01:04 GMT -6
There was no first offense of murder. The other murders and rapes to which the state referred occurred around the time of the murder for which he was convicted. The state established he committed them at trial, but never charged him with them. It's not necessary that be be tried and found guilty in order to be guilty. He was found guilty of this crime, tried, and sentenced to death. Works for me.
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Post by Californian on Mar 30, 2010 16:58:15 GMT -6
I'm sure that happens frequently.
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Post by Californian on Mar 30, 2010 14:04:06 GMT -6
At least have a cursory read of the post before you entirely misunderstand it you disagreeable, plastic-paddy, coffin dodger. Blow me, whippersnapper.
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Post by Californian on Mar 30, 2010 8:22:17 GMT -6
Getting no sympathy from people is a contributory factor in why they might go that way. Some people love the DP as a subject as it allows them to abandon their humanity towards others. I can only surmise that such people find acting with empathy a struggle in general. And some of us think it's a necessary sentence to protect the rest of society from vicious predators whose proclivities to re-offend is obvious. You're getting closer and closer to PTO territory, Ben.
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Post by Californian on Mar 30, 2010 8:19:04 GMT -6
Isn't that EXACTLY why they are deserving of sympathy? Bad genes should be eradicated, not pitied.
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Post by Californian on Mar 30, 2010 6:31:48 GMT -6
He will have,for the rest of his life,the trauma of experiencing this fathers unnecessary death.Poor boy. His family are idiots for bringing him into the prison, and you're an idiot for extending sympathy to them. It is apparent that poor parenting on their part is hereditary. I'm not sure about you, although it seems likely.
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Post by Californian on Mar 29, 2010 7:32:19 GMT -6
As in Iran, the death penalty is a weapon for those in charge to terrorise people with. What make it particularly effective is their willingness to readily use it and for petty crimes to. Totalitarian scum. Let the red bastards starve in the dark. Humanity will be the better for it.
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Post by Californian on Mar 24, 2010 20:26:17 GMT -6
The original serial murder cases, Jack the Ripper, were in Britain. Peter Sutcliffe was also British. And the former USSR had a number of serial murderers. There's a book about one, Andrei Chikatilo, called "Red Ripper" that was fascinating. Mr. Chikatilo, unfortunately, died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage. The 9MM variety. So, as usual, our anti brethren are full of schit.
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Post by Californian on Mar 24, 2010 18:39:26 GMT -6
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Post by Californian on Mar 24, 2010 14:51:33 GMT -6
sigh you do know how arrogant it sounds when you say, its not important what other countries think of us right? Your implying that you don't need anyone else to help you as the USA is better than the rest Hey Kiwi-I'm not implying that, I'm saying that. ;D We don't care. Thanks. Mighty white of ya. Now go away.
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Post by Californian on Mar 24, 2010 8:43:27 GMT -6
Judgment day.
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Post by Californian on Mar 24, 2010 7:56:22 GMT -6
And why should the U.S. care what other nations do? Because one day, pretty soon, it is going to matter what other countries think of you, obviously you haven't cottoned on to that fact yet Please explain why. Again, why is it important what other countries think of our criminal justice system? All you've done so far is posted some unlinked disparate information that seems not to apply.
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Post by Californian on Mar 23, 2010 18:33:38 GMT -6
Isn't a bit funny how of all 30 OECD nations, only 2 have death penalty (only 3 industrialized democracies have it)? What's funny about it? And why should the U.S. care what other nations do? By the way, the U.S. isn't a democracy. It's a Constitutional republic.
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Post by Californian on Mar 22, 2010 8:52:35 GMT -6
You're in jail for murder, for Christ-sakes.
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Post by Californian on Mar 20, 2010 10:53:08 GMT -6
Point taken. You don't need a street address to register a domain name. I consider any business that uses an MBE or other similar mail drop a scam until proven otherwise.
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Post by Californian on Mar 19, 2010 21:47:59 GMT -6
Don't even think about bringing drugs into Malaysia or Singapore. They WILL hang you if you're caught. It wouldn't matter if Gandhi himself appealed for clemency on your behalf. And, not surprisingly, they have no drug problems in either nation. Go figure.
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Post by Californian on Mar 19, 2010 19:46:09 GMT -6
The guy's name is Jon Hurley, who resides at 4742 42nd Ave. #466 in Seattle, WA 98116. Not unless he's a real tiny little guy who can fit into one of the slots at MailBoxes Etc.
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Post by Californian on Mar 18, 2010 19:35:38 GMT -6
Paul Warner Powell executed in Virginia for murder
By Josh White Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 18, 2010; 9:00 PM Kristie Reed was on the basement floor, her throat and wrists slashed. Her older sister, Stacie, was upstairs, dead from a stab wound to the heart. When police reached Kristie, who was then 14 years old, an officer leaned in and asked who had done this to her. Kristie mouthed two words: "Paul Powell."
More than 11 years later, Paul Warner Powell, 31, was executed in Virginia's electric chair Thursday night. He was declared dead at 9:09. The Jan. 29, 1999, murder of one sister and the rape and near-slaying of the other in Manassas were among the most notorious crimes in the region's recent history.
Besides the savage attack, the case was known for Powell's boastful jailhouse letter to Prince William County's chief prosecutor, which provided the crucial evidence that resulted in Thursday's execution.
But it was Kristie Reed's eyewitness account that led to Powell's arrest and confession just hours after the slaying. She is left with decade-old memories of her sister and a neck laced with what she calls "battle scars." Formerly against the death penalty, Kristie eagerly awaited Powell's execution.
"I need to know that he's gone, that we don't have to deal with this anymore," said Kristie Reed, 25, and an advocate for rape victims. "I was totally against the death penalty before this happened, and I didn't know why people would want to do it. But those people haven't been through what we've been through. Now I'm totally for it. He definitely deserves to die. He needs to die for what he did to Stacie."
It has been a long decade for Kristie Reed and her mother, Lorraine Reed Whoberry, who have suffered through nearly unbelievable twists and turns. Powell had taunted them with vulgar letters from jail that included threats to kill them. And the legal case was emotional and difficult
After Kristie Reed took the stand to testify against Powell in 2000 -- she never looked him in the eyes -- prosecutors secured the first conviction and death sentence. At the hearing in which the judge imposed the jury's sentence, the forewoman testified on Powell's behalf, saying that she loved him and had made the wrong decision.
In 2001, the Virginia Supreme Court threw out Powell's death sentence, ruling that the murder of one girl and the rape of another could not be considered the same crime -- a factor necessary for the death penalty. After the ruling, Powell wrote an insulting letter to prosecutors. But in it, he admitted that he had tried to rape Stacie Reed, too. That admission tied Stacie's attempted rape to her slaying and led prosecutors to re-indict him. He was convicted and sentenced to death a second time after another full trial in 2003.
Throughout it all, Powell egged on Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert, who has now sent 10 people to Virginia's death chamber, nearly 10 percent of all people executed in the state since capital punishment was reinstated in 1982. Usually unflappable, this case has at times brought tears to Ebert and has made him so close to the Reeds that they consider him part of their family.
"From the get-go, if anyone deserved the death penalty, Paul Powell deserved it," Ebert said, recalling how moved he was when he saw Kristie in the hospital in 1999, heavily sedated and surrounded by teddy bears. He immediately thought of his daughters and how he would feel if one of them were lying there. "I've been in this business a long time, and I'm pretty callous. This case is more tragic than most I've witnessed because of the ages and the personalities of the victims. You can imagine the horror that went on in that basement as Kristie begged for her life. I got emotionally involved."
Powell has never denied what happened in the Reed house. He told police that Stacie Reed, 16, "got stuck" with a large survival knife during an argument, according to court records. She broke a fingernail on Powell's face and continued to fight after she was stabbed, falling lifeless into her sister's room.
Powell waited around the house for Kristie Reed to come home, showed the teenager her sister's body, then forced her into the basement, where he ordered her to strip naked, raped her, choked her, then cut and stabbed her.
Powell left her for dead.
Powell and Stacie Reed had begun socializing shortly before the slaying. Whoberry had never met him, and Kristie Reed had just recently learned his last name. Powell told authorities that on the day of the killing, he became angry with Stacie when she refused his sexual advances and instead took a phone call from her boyfriend.
"I knew from the moment I saw her that she was gone," Kristie said, slowly recounting her fright in seeing her sister's body. "Stacie put up a fight, but I'm not a fighter. If I know my life's in jeopardy, I'll do whatever you say. I did what he told me to do. He told me to go into the basement, and I did."
Kristie identified Powell immediately, and police found him just hours later at a friend's house. The sheath of his knife had Stacie's blood on it, and police found a drawstring from Powell's striped sweat shirt under Stacie's body. Powell wore that sweat shirt during his first interview with Richard Leonard, who was then a detective with the Prince William police.
Leonard, who knew Powell from some small-time trouble he had caused in high school, had a rapport with him and quickly got him to admit his crimes. He said Powell had the hardest time discussing his assault on Kristie because he thinks Powell was ashamed of it.
"In 31 years of doing this, I know that you're never going to understand the motives of a killer," said Leonard, who is now with the Stafford County Sheriff's Office. "They're all bad, but everyone has a case that haunts them for a long period of time. This is that one for me."
Jennifer Wasko, the forewoman on the jury that first convicted Powell and who later testified on his behalf, has also been through quite an ordeal. The trial scarred her, and her relationship with Powell tore apart her family and professional life. Now remarried, in a new career and living in West Virginia, she looks back on it all wishing she had never contacted Powell after the trial. She said she felt pity for someone she considered "crazy and lost" and wanted to help him.
Wasko spent hours on the phone with Powell and exchanged letters with him that she said ranged from sweet to hateful. The conversations petered out over time, but Wasko said she received a birthday message from him every year.
After Powell sent his tirade to Ebert, admitting more details of the crime, Wasko said she felt no more responsibility for him.
"Everything that happened, he did it, he did it to himself," said Wasko, who during the first trial went by Jennifer Day. "I can sleep at night now. He did what he did, and he's getting what he deserves."
Lorraine Reed Whoberry, who is deeply spiritual, has forgiven Powell, and she told him in a letter in February 2008. She believes his sentence is just and supported his execution, but she believes Stacie Reed's legacy should be Stacie's, not Powell's.
"That hole in your heart will never be filled," Whoberry said. "I miss hearing her voice. I miss her smile. We lost so much that we'll never get back. I've forgiven him, but I haven't forgotten. Death is not the final and ultimate place. The final destination is heaven or hell."
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Post by Californian on Mar 18, 2010 17:54:39 GMT -6
Tick tock. They should be shaving his head just about now. How can someone be so stupid? ;D
Washington (CNN) -- The murderer of a 16-year-old girl faces electrocution Thursday after a letter bragging about his crimes got him a cell on Virginia's death row. Attorneys for Paul Warner Powell plan no further appeals, and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has denied clemency. The U.S. Supreme Court in January refused to block the execution. The execution is set for 9 p.m. ET Thursday. Powell was convicted in the 1999 murder of Stacie Reed and the rape of her 14-year-old sister in their Manassas, Virginia, family home. Powell claimed double jeopardy after state prosecutors put him on trial for a second time in the killing. The high court in July delayed Powell's execution while considering the broader constitutional claims, which were finally rejected. The killer rejected lethal injection, the state's usual method of execution. "I'm hopeful this is the last legal chapter in the long history of this case," said Powell's prosecutor, Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert. "The survivors -- Stacie's mother and [her sister] -- have really been traumatized by delay after delay. Hopefully they're going to get some peace and closure after all these years." CNN does not identify sexual assault victims without their permission, even though the surviving victim, now 25, has talked publicly about the case. The crime shocked the Washington area. Stacie Reed knew Powell, then 20 and an admitted racist. The state's highest court eventually threw out the 2000 verdict in the first trial, saying prosecutors had not proven other necessary death-eligible offenses were committed against the 16-year-old. Such "aggravating" factors could include, rape, attempted rape or robbery in commission of the murder. The sexual assault and attempted murder of Stacie's younger sister was upheld, and Powell was given a long prison sentence. Powell, believing he was free from execution, proceeded to write a taunting, profanity-filled letter from behind bars to Ebert, laying out explicit details of the crime unknown to investigators at the time. "Since I have already been indicted on first degree murder and the Va. Supreme Court said that I can't be charged with capital murder again, I figured I would tell you the rest of what happened on Jan. 29, 1999, to show you how stupid all of y'all ... are," wrote Powell, who is white. He said he had gone to the Reed house to confront Stacie for dating a black boyfriend. He admitted pinning the victim, threatening to rape her, then stabbing her in the heart when the girl resisted. He then stomped on her throat. "I guess I forgot to mention these events when I was being questioned. Ha Ha!" he wrote in 2001. "Do you just hate yourself for being so stupid ... and saving me?" The killer also said that after that crime, he waited in the house until the younger girl returned from school, then attacked her, leaving her for dead. In the meantime, he drank iced tea from the family refrigerator and smoked a cigarette, part of the forensic evidence that investigators used to place Powell at the scene of the crime. With this firsthand account from Powell, he was indicted again and charged with murder and attempted rape of Stacie -- a capital-eligible crime. He again was convicted, and federal and state courts subsequently upheld the conviction on appeal.
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Post by Californian on Mar 17, 2010 8:26:22 GMT -6
What was the reason behind the 3-drugs in the first place? This seems so much more simple. Rayozz The original LI 3-drug method was designed by an anesthesiologist and mimicks the induction of general anesthesia. I think the idea was that most people had been anesthetized and didn't have any problems, so it was familiar to the legislators and citizenry. But now the antis have what they so fervently argued for, and that should obviously shut them up. (as if) ;D
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Post by Californian on Mar 16, 2010 18:48:54 GMT -6
Hasta la vista, creep. P.S. score another one for the single-drug protocol. Bet our anti brethren rue the day they began bitching about the 3-drug cocktail. ;D
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