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Post by RickZ on Aug 8, 2005 19:05:33 GMT -6
Aye thats because we are fussy as to who we allow to live in Scotland we dont just take any old rif-raft you know As a member of the European Union, Scotland doesn't have much choice in the matter.
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Post by RickZ on Aug 8, 2005 19:03:43 GMT -6
I, too, would rather meet a man in a kilt than a man with a gun. Hmm, forget I said that. Now THAT'S funny! Amen to that.
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Post by RickZ on Jul 1, 2005 5:24:57 GMT -6
Do you not accept the possibility that at least one innocent man may exists on DR?. Is your faith in the justice system so complete as to believe that no-one in jail today has been wrongly convicted?. Yes, there are. That's why there are appeals, and this wasn't Richey's first appeal. It just goes to show the incredibly high hurdles the prosecution faces at the trial and appellate levels. And after 19 years, as Gurney said, the state may have destroyed or lost evidence, and witnesses memories can fade. A retrial is a very high hurdle after 19 years. If he is found guilty at re-trial, will you accept it, or believe that anyone who claims innocence is innocent, irrespective of what happens later? If he is found guilty, will Scots take up a collection to pay Ohio for his incarceration?
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Post by RickZ on Jul 12, 2005 17:07:27 GMT -6
By the time I get back from Ray's Liquor, Conklin will be toast. Check out Ray's Porn Emporium in the back. One stop shopping at its finest.
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Post by RickZ on Jul 8, 2005 7:22:43 GMT -6
i was reading this and i realized hes one of the biggest scumbags i've ever heard of...hes reminds me of a smaller ed kemper Bryan, what the bland "Rolling's victims were Sonja Larson, 18, of Deerfield Beach; Christina Powell, 17, of Jacksonville; Christa Hoyt, 19, of Archer; Tracy Paules, 23, of Miami; and Manuel Taboada, 23, of Miami" leaves out is that Rolling decapitated Christa Hoyt. "When [the two officers] left the bathroom they saw Christa’s lifeless head facing them, propped up on a bookshelf in the bedroom. When they entered the bedroom, they saw the headless corpse of the once beautiful Christa, sitting at the end of the bed. On the bed next to her were her two nipples."
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Post by RickZ on Jul 8, 2005 6:58:28 GMT -6
I remember Danny Rolling's plea. He stood up in open court and admuitted he killed the five college students. He said he wanted to pleed guilty because it was time he accepted what he did. He seemed to want to be a man about it.
But now we read: "Rolling had raised issues over the constitutionality of Florida's death penalty and that his sentencing was held in Alachua County, where the crimes occurred, arguing he could not get an impartial sentencing jury in the Gainesville area, Rodgers' order states." He now whines that he was sentenced in the county where the crimes occurred? I guess living on death row has turned Danny from the man who admitted his guilt into a little boy crying, "Unfair!"
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Post by RickZ on Jul 14, 2005 2:06:16 GMT -6
Bro, you need to source your news articles. I had a hard time locating the state of jurisdiction (Oklahoma). That had me laughing. As I read "A former Fort Sill" my brain automatically added ", Oklahoma." Must be the military brat in me, and I was a Navy one!
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Post by RickZ on Jun 13, 2005 9:42:45 GMT -6
Aaarrrghhh, I did it again. I've promised to become a nice guy. Seems to be a long way ........ ;D ;D ;D Sysiphus had an easier task than the one you set out for yourself.
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Post by RickZ on Jun 13, 2005 8:09:42 GMT -6
While the killer of Joshua's relatives and his friend is certainly a poster child for the DP or a LWOP sentence, others suffer on Death Row for crimes they did not commit. Hope you got me right, otherwise bash me! I understand you but, for the life of me, I don't understand you. How can anyone in their right mind object to the removal of this garbage from the human race because of some risk to others from the death penalty? Death penalty cases are examined each on their own merits; the appellate process takes years, as in this case. The Cooper case IS a slam-dunk when it comes to justifying the use of the death penalty. If the condemned believe in it, it's time for them to meet their Maker. I'm not judging him, I'm executing him for murder. [And the "I" is appropriate because it is my country, "we the people," even though I don't live in California.] I have said it before and I shall say it again.If the blacks in America ever wish to achieve 100% equality,to which I think they are entitled,they must rid theirselves of moronic spokespeople such as Jesse Jackson. Amen Gurney. It's time for the blacks to finally get rid of this contortionist extortionist, and any one else who follows his ultra-liberal, hyper-P.C., loony tunes agenda.
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Post by RickZ on Jun 12, 2005 20:04:16 GMT -6
Charlene, that's a stunning statement. Thanks for posting it.
"The first time I met Kevin Cooper I was 8 years old and he slit my throat. He hit me with a hatchet and put a hole in my skull. He stabbed me twice, which broke my ribs and collapsed one lung. I lived only because I stuck four fingers in my neck to slow the bleeding, but I was too weak to move. I laid there 11 hours looking at my mother who was right beside me. . . . Kevin Cooper has movie stars and Jesse Jackson holding rallies for him, people carrying signs, lighting candles, saying prayers. . . ."
The idiocy of the absurd.
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Post by RickZ on Jun 12, 2005 18:55:41 GMT -6
Rich is dead. He's not coming back..... Praise the Lord and pass over a beer! One less scumbucket around. But it sounds like you're just a scum receptacle. How many babies did you have with that piece of sh*t?
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Post by RickZ on Jun 11, 2005 19:17:15 GMT -6
Yes, you have a learning disability. You can't learn.
You also don't know who Bugs Bunny is. Shame, that.
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Post by RickZ on Jun 11, 2005 19:09:22 GMT -6
Rickz, you don't know me well enough if your calling me a moron. And you underestimate Rich's family and friends. I will call you a moron now, since you can't read.
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Post by RickZ on Jun 11, 2005 7:20:59 GMT -6
I'm not trying to save his life anymore. He's already dead. His name will be cleared. Uh, huh. Right. Sure it will. To quote the esteemed Bugs Bunny: What a maroon!
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Post by RickZ on Jun 11, 2005 16:26:15 GMT -6
I tend to look at inmates dropping appeals as assisted suicide... Well, if that's what you think, you'd be thinking wrong. An inmate who drops his or her appeals is merely expediting the sentence as mandated by the convicting court. The inmate may hasten his death, but, without a leg to stand on in the appellate process, they are "dead man/woman walking." Execution is not "assisted suicide" by any stretch of the imagination. "Volunteer" is the appropriate word.
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Post by RickZ on May 18, 2005 8:06:22 GMT -6
You know, I NEVER read an inmate's web page unless it's funny....LOL. ;D Uh, don't you think they are a little biased in how they present the information? Biased? How can you say that? They are only trying to land a job with the NYSlimes or the Belsen Broadcasting Corporation. Just look at poor Mumia and his NPR gig, doing a radio show from a Pennsylvania death row cell.
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Post by RickZ on Apr 23, 2005 14:43:19 GMT -6
He was 17 in 2002 when the crimes occured. Which now make this serial killer ineligible for the death penalty thanks, as I stated above, to the Supreme Court's recent overturning of the juvenile death penalty.
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Post by RickZ on Apr 23, 2005 13:49:23 GMT -6
Is he the older or younger of the two perpetrators? The younder one, Lee Malvo, according to the munificence of our Supreme Court, cannot get the death penalty for his serial murder crimes; he's "too young."
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Post by RickZ on Apr 21, 2005 6:13:49 GMT -6
What age do pros think the cut off should be? Or should there not be one and we should execute them regardless of how old they are? The previous accepted age cut-off was 16. But I'm for taking each case one at a time, and evaluating accordingly. There have been too many heinous and brutal murders committed by those under 18, under 16, to legally create a loophole for such unconscionable behavior.
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Post by RickZ on Apr 17, 2005 0:22:47 GMT -6
I and many others are at our wits end trying to get these people to do more to protect our children. Any ideas? Vote the pr*ck out of office. Speak with your vote.
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Post by RickZ on Apr 8, 2005 6:03:03 GMT -6
So basically you are saying that because what he did was heineous, that lifts any requirement for your response to be civilised? That is where we differ Jane. Because when you allow his actions to influence yours to that degree, you are actually giving him that power but fail to see it! I'll paraphrase you F2: Can you please define 'civilized'? 'Civilized' as in the actions of your kith and kin, the IRA? We'll give him a last meal send-off, which is far more civilized than what any of this serial killer's victims received. As for "giving him that power," Connecticut does not use the electric chair for executions. Shame, though, about not being able to give Ross 2,000 volts of power. That's all the power he deserves, and has earned.
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Post by RickZ on Mar 22, 2005 1:07:09 GMT -6
As for whether the juvenile DP could be reinstated: If the number of murders by juveniles takes a significant and noticable upswing, anything can happen, especially if the public and legislators perceive the SCOTUS decision to be partially responsbile for creating a murder loophole for the under 18 crowd.
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Post by RickZ on Mar 10, 2005 12:03:47 GMT -6
Charlene,
Thank you for that post chock full of facts. D*mnable things, those facts.
But, as Joy posted, there will always be someone, somewhere willing to defend such an animal, even to the point of making a 'statement' by marrying one. Some statement.
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Post by RickZ on Mar 30, 2005 7:22:21 GMT -6
bryan,
I did a quick scan of that list and realized it's not a list of all women sentenced to death since 1976. I'm not sure when the list was generated, as it has Linda Block, from Alabama, and Aileen Wuornos, from Florida, listed; both have since been executed. The reason I realized it's not a comprehensive list is I noticed two names missing, names of women who have been executed: Velma Barfield (North Carolina) and Karla Tucker (Texas). The link appears to be a list of women on, or released from, death row as of a certain, unknown, date.
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Post by RickZ on Nov 19, 2005 1:57:02 GMT -6
Here are my thoughts as it pertains to the party at the children’s gravesite that was videotaped.
My parents lost a child, my brother, at the age of six, two years before I was born. It was a case of medical incompetence, though, as military dependents, suing the Navy was out of the question back in the early ‘50’s. I have been told stories of the after effects of Gerry’s death on my family. There were no parties, no celebrations. Gerry was not forgotten, but his birthday was not celebrated, either. The loss of my brother was, and is to this day, a great pain in my parents’ hearts. There was no cause for joy. And the idea of filming such a party is ghoulish in the extreme. While grief takes many forms, and a child’s murder can affect a parent in any number of ways, celebrating that fact does not seem to be one of those forms, IMO. I tend to think the graveside party was more a sense of guilt than joy, of remorse over sadness. While visiting an adult gravesite, and sharing a beer or a shot, pouring some on the grave, is not looked at askance, a party with balloons at a child’s gravesite is just so out of context when it comes to the concept of grieving. Holding a prayer service, or a small get-together is one thing, but until someone can convince me that this videotaped behavior exhibited by Routier is somehow normal or commonplace, I will always feel her to be guilty in some manner for the death of her children. The videotaped party showed Routier to be in denial, and I feel it is a denial of her very own actions that led to their deaths. There are more and more cases today (maybe they were always there, just now given more prominence) of parents harming their own children, then being in complete denial about the harm they have caused once caught. Routier seems to fit this category.
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Post by RickZ on Mar 10, 2005 7:46:01 GMT -6
GlennF, what a deplorable creature you are. If you compare these pictures with a common nosebleed, you will certainly compare Dubya with Mahatma Ghandi ..... Nah, Bush is not an anti-semitic bastard like Gandhi was. Which, come to think of it, is why you Euro's and our lefty liberals adore Gandhi so much: You all have irrational Jew hatred in common.
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Post by RickZ on Mar 3, 2005 17:20:07 GMT -6
It would be more likely to be an anti who would use it - why would a pro want a vicious killer to represent him? That was my first thought whe I read the original question. I'm of the opinion that the murderers have already had their 15 minutes of face time, and I would do nothing to prolong it by using their silly picture as an avatar. Neither would my knowledge of the pain and suffering they've inflicted on far too many innocents allow me to do so.
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Post by RickZ on Apr 6, 2005 7:52:47 GMT -6
You are not allowed to enter a guilty plea in a capital case. That is true for certain in California, and probably true in the other states and in federal courts as well. Not being allowed to enter a guilty plea in a capital case is not true, at least in Florida. The Danny Rolling case comes to mind. He pled guilty in the middle of his capital trial to five murders, and sits on Florida's death row. There have been other cases, but they do not spring readily to mind.
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Post by RickZ on Feb 28, 2005 18:32:03 GMT -6
Ima,
Thank you for your honesty. Without naming names or going into too many specifics, what was the type of info hidden deep in his records that changed your opinion of him? Why haven't you filed for a divorce? And out of curiousity, did his lawyers/family say anything to you after your change of heart?
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Post by RickZ on Feb 20, 2005 16:18:20 GMT -6
Mysteron,
There is a two tier appellate process in the States. Once the State appeals are through, the inmate can appeal to the Federal Courts. The Federal Courts are not prohibited from ruling on matters that may be contrary to a state's law.
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