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Cynner
11/12/09

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Sometimes, I wish our judicial system would punish criminals in the same way they committed the crime. #murder
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sassypants
11/12/09

@Cynner: Totally agree. #murder
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RollsRoyceRevenge
11/12/09

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I don't get the viciousness of the attack. Whenever I burgle a home, if the inhabitants are present, I just sneak out through the same catflap I came in. #murder
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Novaload
11/12/09

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Excellent news. Kill him, forget him. #murder
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MonkeyPants
11/12/09

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I can never really get over the part of this story where a 26 year old's mother is calling her every morning to make sure she's up for her job. And when she doesn't answer, the mother rushes over there. Granted, if she hadn't, who knows how long this girl would have lain there dying but... I don't know. This makes too much of a case for Helicopter parenting. #murder
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apollonia666
11/12/09

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He didn't stab her - he raped her and beat her so badly with a piece of wood that her face was completely destroyed. The description of her injuries at the trial were so beyond gruesome I won't post them here. This was a particularly vicious crime. #murder
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hamburgerhotdog
11/12/09

@apollonia666: And DNA has linked him to another rape case. #murder
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scroll_lock
11/12/09

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Yay! Hope they can fast track the execution. It'll be good riddance to this disgusting POS. #murder
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blix
11/12/09

@scroll_lock: Thanks for being upfront with your view. I hate it when you keep us hanging. #murder
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scroll_lock
11/12/09

@blix: I vow to stop being vague just for you, blixy! It's just too bad they couldn't get a two-for-one deal with the Beltway sniper the other day. Save on paperwork, that sort of thing. #murder
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blix
11/12/09

@scroll_lock: They forgot to bring the coupon. D'oh! #murder
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scroll_lock
11/12/09

@blix: He did try to use his get out of jail free card, though. His lawyer was some dude with a moustache and tophat. #murder
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
11/12/09

@scroll_lock:
Yes, killing people is terrible. That's why we as a society need our blood vengeance... so that we can show people that killing people is wrong. #murder
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scroll_lock
11/12/09

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: I get your point but I still think he should fry. #murder
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bboston88
11/12/09

@scroll_lock: I think he should be put in the general prison population to enjoy years of unlubricated anal rape. #murder
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J. Henry Waugh
11/12/09

@scroll_lock: It's disorienting when the serious side of one of our funniest commenters is revealed. #murder
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scroll_lock
11/12/09

@J. Henry Waugh: First of all thank you for the compliment. Secondly, it DOES feel disorienting to me, too. #murder
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scroll_lock
11/12/09

@bboston88: I'm sure a lot of people have considered that option. #murder
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BettyCrocker
11/12/09

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Black man + pretty dead white Arkansan lady, in Arkansas = dead black man. #murder
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chinaplate
11/12/09

@BettyCrocker: Well, he did kill her. I don't believe in the death penalty, but are you suggesting that it oughtn't to be applied in cases where it seems 'too obvious'? #murder
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Lucky
11/12/09

@chinaplate: I think the point is more that in the case of a black man, it's pretty much a certainty that the death penalty will be applied, where it wouldn't be a certainty were it a white man. #murder
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Buttafooco
11/12/09

@Lucky: [www.deathpenaltyinfo.org] #murder
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AlexSea
11/12/09

@BettyCrocker: @BettyCrocker: Yeah, or someone murders someone and capital punishment works (well, works if you agree with it) like the law says it does. Not everything is about race, even in the south. Crazy, right! tl;dr - a nilla would have gotten the dealth penalty too. #murder
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AngriestGeek
11/12/09

@Lucky: If you read the details of how he killed her, there's no doubt that anyone would be facing the death penalty in this circumstance. #murder
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Lucky
11/12/09

@Buttafooco, @Angriest Greek: I was ignorant of the law and statistics in this particular case, so I thank you, but I was just trying to give an interpretation of BettyCrocker's comment. But even so, from what knowledge I did have, it's been found that the death penalty is applied unevenly between blacks and whites (in general). #murder
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Buttafooco
11/12/09

@Lucky: Point well taken. I think one of the reasons for that may be because when it's applied to whites, we don't often hear about it in the media as much as when it applies to blacks, which is especially true if it's black on white crime. #murder
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tjberinger001
11/12/09

@Buttafooco: We heard about this not because he is a black man but because she was so loved by the community. The murder was gruesome and devastating to the area. I think the death penalty would be sought regardless of who did it because of the role of Anne Pressley.
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Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
11/12/09

@AlexSea: Oh, it totally works. Once they pump the poison into this fella, (1) Anne Pressly will come back to life and (2) homicidal maniacs with incurable sociopathic tendencies will stop in their tracks, so deterred from committing acts of violence they'll be.
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BettyCrocker
11/12/09

@Lucky: You got it exactly right. Not to say that others in this thread don't likewise have good points. #murder
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Scooter34
11/12/09

@Buttafooco: Interesting chart. Did you look at the population numbers for the state by race? Because according to the U.S. Census bureau, the racial divide in Alabama is 71% white and 26% black, making a nearly equal division in executions by race disproportionately applied.

[quickfacts.census.gov] #murder
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Lucky
11/12/09

@BettyCrocker: I'm glad I got it right. And I agree about the other good points made here. #murder
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
11/12/09

@tjberinger001: Yes, we should definitely base our punishments on whether or not the victim was "loved by the community." #murder
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Buttafooco
11/12/09

@Scooter34: I actually did not and I must confess I suck at statistics and maths. However, wouldn't you have to look the racial makeup of the prison population, rather than the general population? It may be a 71% white to 26% black in the general population but when you look at the prison population, the numbers are much different. However, there is no denying the fact that the media seems give more traction to crimes that involve black men against white women. #murder
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pssshwhatever
11/12/09

@Lucky: From what I remember of the class on the death penalty that I took in college, it's applied proportionately between blacks and whites when you control for the race of the victim. A killer of any race is FAR more likely to be sentenced to death for killing a white person than for killing a black person. Tells you about which lives we value as a society, I think.

Although I don't think this is a clear case of that bias since the white victim was prominent and well-liked in the community, and the brutality of the murder combined with the victim's visibility probably means that anyone convicted of it would face death. The statistic overall is telling, though. #murder
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Lucky
11/12/09

@pssshwhatever: It has been a while since I've read anything about it, though I'm sure one of my classes will cover it at some point as I'm a Soc/Poli Sci major (I know...). I almost took criminal justice this quarter.

And that the divide is revealed when you look at the race of the victim is very telling indeed. I'll have to look out for info on that. Thanks! #murder
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pssshwhatever
11/12/09

@Lucky: The death penalty class I took was really fascinating, one of the best that I took in college. There are a lot of BS "facts" out there about the DP and it was nice to cut through some of that. I had always heard black offenders were disproportionately executed, and I was surprised to find that that's not exactly the case. #murder
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Scooter34
11/12/09

@Buttafooco: I didn't mean this as a be-all, end-all of the discussion. Statistics are manipulated from many points of view.

One of the dirty little secrets in law enforcement is crime reporting. For years, we have reported under Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), which allows us to report only the most serious in a series of crimes. So, for example, a rape and robbery that end in murder are reported as a murder. The FBI is pushing hard to switch to NIBRS, which is National Incident Based Reporting System, which would count all three offenses in the above example. So, you're already comparing apples to oranges if you're looking at crime statistics, because you're probably looking at UCR vs. NIBRS. #murder
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Buttafooco
11/12/09

@Scooter34: actually, I have zero interest in comparing any sort of crime stats. I was merely pointing out that if you're speaking about comparisons regarding death penalty cases as it relates to fact vs public perception when it comes to race, it would be more appropriate to do comparisons within the prison populations when making the argument. And now I am off to eat an apple............and then.....perhaps an orange. #murder
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Scooter34
11/13/09

@Buttafooco: Me, too! But I had a bagel. #murder
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