Galveston: Murder & carjacking

[seamusTX]

The poor, misunderstood, 40-year-old choir boy who is suspected of this crime has been indicted for murder. He is also wanted for felonies in other jurisdictions.

After the police and medical examiner's investigations were complete, they concluded that the suspect ran over the victim with the victim's vehicle (which was found a few blocks away).

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If guitly he will have a cold concrete place in prison, and a very warm place after that. One thing I have to say for Galveston, defendants who go to jury trials rarely get a break. Sometimes juries recommend longer sentences than the prosecutors asked for. This is clearly capital murder if the cops got the evidence right.

- Jim

[rp_photo]

One way to reduce recidivism is to shoot perps in the commission of a crime, and to encourage law abiding citizens to do just that. My only reservation about the death penalty is getting the wrong guy, but shooting them in the act eliminates that, doesn't it!

I could not agree more, as this is law enforcement in it's most moral and effective form.

[VMI77]

I often wonder if they would have multiple arrests and convictions if they served the time, each time, of their original sentence. It must be more clear to me than to the judges and DOJ officials that by the second or third offense for the same crime, a reduced sentence or deferred adjudication is not going to be very effective and that the result is turning an even more hardened criminal back onto society.

I'm one of the misguided soles who also believes stiff penalties with long punishments for gun crimes would go a long way to reducing the number of them. I've never understood giving longer sentences to drug dealers than to people who who commit armed robbery.

On another thread there is a link to the murder of four people in a Tulsa apartment. The guy who did it served 17 years of a 35 year sentence for armed robbery. In prison he used drugs, committed assaults, and participated in a murder, yet he was paroled after serving less than half his sentence. While on parole he was convicted of another crime --interfering with a police officer-- and given probation. To me, all this makes the state of Oklahoma an accomplice in the four murders and I think those who paroled this vicious predator to prey on the people of Oklahoma are complicit and should go to prison themselves.

[rp_photo]

On another thread there is a link to the murder of four people in a Tulsa apartment. The guy who did it served 17 years of a 35 year sentence for armed robbery. In prison he used drugs, committed assaults, and participated in a murder, yet he was paroled after serving less than half his sentence. While on parole he was convicted of another crime --interfering with a police officer-- and given probation. To me, all this makes the state of Oklahoma an accomplice in the four murders and I think those who paroled this vicious predator to prey on the people of Oklahoma are complicit and should go to prison themselves.

Oftentimes an armed citizen is the only way someone like this will be stopped for good.

Armed citizens are not only the front line but also the backup when the system fails.