I've already stated that in our most emphatic position that any person who cannot respect innocent human life - including a husband, wife, sibling, whomever - should logically be made to forfeit their own. This particular observer takes a firm stand on behalf of murdered wives, girlfriends, children, whomever and does not regard them as so much "unfortunate folk" who are readily forgotten by both the murderer & his abolitionist sidekicks. I have already asked you to produce the name & situation re any executed "innocent" person in your Beautiful State. You didn't respond. Any pertinent reason?
You conveniently overlook the fact - or maybe you're simply unaware of it - that LWOP killers do indeed REPEAT their crimes over and over again. They murder prison guards, other inmates and if they escape murder again. I have just competed a 25-year Research Study of convicted-but-never-executed killers and their continuing murder sprees involving innocent citizens outside prison walls as well as guards & visitors within. You also very conveniently failed to respond to even one of my concerns about "prayer vigils" or candlelight ceremonies outside prisons on behalf of the poor slaughtered victims long in their tombs. Why not? Perhaps as an abolitionist you're not all that concerned about public support for the victims of murderers? Can you put on your thinking cap & try to come up with one victim anywhere in America who had a "prayer vigil" held on their behalf?
Kind sir, the "killing that's going" in America today, that killing that seems to bother you somewhat, is not that of the few executed murderers meeting their Maker due to their failure to respect innocent human life, but it's much rather that of the increasing number of innocent American women, children (and men) being shot, garroted, stabbed or even drowned by mad-dog killers who depend on abolitionists and ACLU-types to defend their nefarious actions.
Crime will not decrease in America today until it becomes much more dangerous to be a murderer than to be a victim. You can carve the words in granite too.
I see you do your spill then selectively list who you think is more worthy.
Your Quote "This particular observer takes a firm stand on behalf of murdered wives, girlfriends, children, whomever and does not regard them as so much "unfortunate folk" who are readily forgotten by both the murderer...."
You then go on with your tirade and throw in (and men) in parenthesis. I happen to believe that both genders have equal worth. Are "the men" the "whomever" just thrown in as an after thought?
Why you believe that the death penalty is a deterrent and a cure all, I have no clue. Its purpose was never intended as such but as a form of the most ultimate punishment that can be given to a defendant based on
their own individual case independently. I highly doubt the next murderer that comes along will get their research books out before they kill and think "oh my I can't do this murderous thing because I may or may not be executed 20 years from now" There always have been murderers and there always will be.
What you say makes no sense. Other countries across the world have no death penalty at all yet have much less crime than is here in the USA. So your theory to kill them all does not hold up imo.
And I am not even disagreeing with you about the death penalty but everything comes in degrees and, yes, that even includes homicides and that is why juries can chose what degree they thought the defendant committed.
Why you come here to berate and chastise North Carolina and I have no clue. I know sometime the USA doesn't think they have to parlay with anyone in another country but the truth is they do and must respect the laws/treaties of another country even if they do not agree with them. Just like we expect all other sovereign nations to respect ours.
NC could have done like another case I recently read about. Oh that DA reminded me of you, sort of headstrong and he refused to take the death penalty off the table for a suspect that had fled to Canada. Well of course Canada is the same way as Mexico and everyone knows it and wouldn't extradite him back. So two years were wasted and for what? Needless delay bringing him back. I wonder how the victim's family felt as those years went by knowing he was in Canada all that time and would have been there for life if the local DA had not finally adhered to their treaty?
DA Hudson knows the law........he knows the treaty.......he respects the law and treaties of other countries he may have to deal with. He didn't wait around or be pig headed. He wanted him back as quickly as possible.
Laurean is not the only suspect that the USA is wanting extradited. He is just one little fish in a big pond and they aren't going to go against the very agreement they have made because if they do they will not get the next one back and he or she could be a mass serial killer for all we know that has killed many people.
I commend Hudson for doing the right thing.....for not thwarting it by slowing down the process to a stop. Extradition hearings are being held in Mexico and I have no doubt Laurean will be back on American soil in a few months, awaiting trial. Even Mary Lauterbach has not stated once she wants Laurean to get death. She said she wants to see him convicted and locked up.
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