THE MESSAGE:
I am not a U.S. citizen. If I was, I think that I would certainly vote for the death penalty for all of the murderers described in the following pages. I believe that forgiveness is a valuable part of one's character; however, these murders demonstrate that there is something missing from the perps. Am I being a hypocrite if I withhold any forgiveness on my part? Questions arise in my mind.
- Why does a murderer convicted of such heinous crimes have 'constitutional rights'?
- In Canada why does a person in jail have the same voting rights as do I?
- Why is a person on death row given so many appeals?
- Is confining a person to a lifetime spent in prison any more humane than ending a tortured and dangerous life?
- Can the perpetrators of repeated heinous crimes be rehabilitated?
- Are societies truly free when fear and hatred exist within them?
THE BLURB:
As of 2010, California (683), Florida (390), Texas (330) and Pennsylvania (218) housed more than half of all inmates pending on death row.
IS HE TOO CRAZY TO BE EXECUTED?
A frail looking old man is confined for 23 hours a day. He eats a hot meal 3 times daily. Once every other day, he is allowed the treat of a shower. The rest of the time, he exists alone in a sweltering 6 by 9 foot cell. What thoughts run through the mind of a man who has absolute solitude?
His name is Gary Alvord. For almost 40 years, he has waited out a death sentence he received for the 1973 murders of three women in Tampa. Today, the 66-year-old holds the distinction of having been a member of death row longer than any other inmate in America. Alvord, a Florida inmate died this year of natural causes. He was 66 years old and had been sentenced to death for murder almost 40 years ago.
CONSIDER THE PEOPLE LISTED HERE
JOSEPH EDWARD DUNCAN III is a convicted American serial killer and child molester who is on death row in federal prison for the 2005 kidnapping and murder of members of the Groene family of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He is also serving 11 consecutive sentences of life without parole in conjunction with a murder in California. Additionally, Duncan has confessed to the 1996 murder of two girls in Seattle. At the time of the attack on the Groene family, Duncan was on the run from a child molestation charge in Minnesota.
DYLANN ROOF on March 31, 2017, agreed to plead guilty in South Carolina state court to all nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He was already facing a death sentence from a Federal Court. In return, for the guilty plea he accepted a sentence of life in prison without parole. Roof plead guilty in South Carolina in order to avoid a second sentence of death.
GARY L. SAMPSON was charged in a federal court in Boston, Massachusetts. He was found guilty and on 23 December 2003 was sentenced to death.
Massachusetts does not have the death penalty. The State abolished capital punishment in 1984. The last time it used the penalty was in 1973. It is the first time anyone in Massachusetts has been sentenced to die under the federal death penalty law.
The jury deliberated for ten hours after hearing six weeks of evidence. Sampson had pleaded guilty, so the jury did not need to decide whether was a killer; however, the jury heard the murders described in graphic detail during the sentencing phase of the trial. Prosecutors portrayed Sampson as a ruthless, calculating killer who preyed on Good Samaritans.
ALBERT GREENWOOD BROWN was convicted for the abduction, rape, and murder of 15-year-old Susan Louise Jordan on her way to school. He was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 9 p.m. on September 30, 2010, in California's first use of capital punishment since the lifting of a court-ordered moratorium. Brown posed as a jogger and dragged the girl into the woods where he strangled her with her shoelace. Brown then made numerous calls to the Riverside Police Department and the Jordan residence. One of Brown's subsequent calls was recorded by a police officer. "Hello, Mrs. Jordan, Susie isn't home from school yet, is she? You will never see your daughter again. You can find her body on the corner of Victoria and Gibson." Brown was arrested after witnesses identified his license plate number. In his residence, police found Susan's books, a newspaper article about the case, and a Riverside telephone book bookmarked to the page of the Jordan home. Brown was late to work on the day she disappeared, a bloody jogging suit was found in his locker and Brown's shoes were matched to footprints from the crime scene.
WENDI ELIZABETH ANDRIANO, during the early morning hours of October 8, 2000, bludgeoned her 33-year-old husband Joe to death with a bar stool and stabbed him in the neck with a 13-inch knife in the couple's apartment in Ahwatukee, Arizona. His autopsy revealed that he had sustained 23 blows to the skull. Traces of sodium azide were found in his system.
At the trial, Wendi testified in her own defense. For nine days on the stand, she testified that she had been battered by her husband. She also stated that her husband Joe flew into a rage after she told him about her affair. She said there was a struggle with the knife. Despite her dramatic testimony, on November 18, 2004, Wendi's jury found her guilty of first-degree murder. A month later came her sentencing. Due to the heinousness, cruelty, and depravity of the crime, and because it had been shown by the prosecution that the crime was financially motivated, she was sentenced to death by lethal injection on December 22, 2004.
LAWRENCE BITTAKER and Roy Lewis Norris are two American serial killers and rapists known as the Tool Box Killers. Together they committed the kidnap, rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls over a period of five months in southern California in 1979. Bittaker was sentenced to death for five murders on March 24, 1981, and is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Norris accepted a plea bargain whereby he agreed to testify against Bittaker and was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 7, 1980, with possibility of parole after serving 30 years. He is currently incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. 
RICHARD KENNETH DJERF is an American mass murderer on death row in Florence, Arizona. The judge who sentenced Djerf to death in 1996 said that Djerf had "relished" the time he spent killing the Luna family to get revenge against his friend for burglarizing his apartment. Djerf admitted to killing Albert Luna Sr., 46, his wife, Patricia, 40, and their two children, 17-year-old Rochelle, whom he also raped and 5-year-old Damien. The only surviving member of the family was Albert Luna Jr., Djerf's former friend.
On September 14, 1993, Djerf showed up at the Luna home with flowers, and then forced himself in at gunpoint. Patricia Luna and her 5-year-old son Damien were at home. Djerf secured Mrs. Luna and her son by tying their arms and legs and gagging them. When Rochelle Luna arrived several hours later, Djerf took her to her bedroom where he raped and killed her. When Albert Luna, Sr. arrived at home, Djerf forced him into his bedroom at gunpoint. Djerf handcuffed Mr. Luna to a bed and smashed his head with a baseball bat, then removed the handcuffs believing that Mr. Luna was dead. Djerf then returned to the kitchen with Mrs. Luna and Damien. Mr. Luna regained consciousness and charged Djerf. Djerf killed Mr. Luna, then shot Mrs. Luna and Damien in the head.
Before he left, Djerf spread gasoline around the house. He then turned on the stove and left a pizza box on the burner, but the house didn't burn. He has been on death row for 22 years and 176 days.
ROBERTO MORENO RAMOS was condemned for the 1992 deaths of his 42-year-old wife Leticia, seven-year-old daughter Abigail, and three-year-old son Jonathan at their home in Progreso, located along the Mexico border.
Authorities said Ramos bludgeoned his family members and then buried them underneath his home’s bathroom floor so he could marry the woman he was having an extramarital affair with at the time.
When asked by the warden if he had a final statement, Ramos thanked the Mexican consulate for assisting with appeals in his case and said he was grateful for “the humane treatment I got in prison in Texas.”
As the lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital began taking effect, the 64-year-old Ramos took a couple of deep breaths, sputtered once and began snoring. Within seconds, all movement stopped.
He became the 21st inmate put to death this year in the U.S. and the 11th given a lethal injection in Texas, the nation’s busiest capital punishment state. No friends or relatives of Ramos or his victims witnessed the execution,
THE QUESTION:
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2 comments:
Democracy has flaws. This is a major one.
Great one tiny
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