"Bo Raxo" wrote in message
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tiny dancer wrote:


Tell that to all the victims of REPEAT OFFENDERS. Tell that to the kid
that
Joseph Duncan raped and tried to strangle when he was 17.

He was not sentenced to LWOP. I guess you're arguing a rapist should be
sentenced to death, because then there will be no more victims. But
LWOP makes that happen just as surely as a death penalty.

Oh, you can argue that we will never, ever execute the wrong person,
only the clearly guilty.. But I can't argue we will never, ever
release a LWOP prisoner.

Uh huh.

Tell that to the
women Richard Allen Davis kidnapped and raped prior to Polly Klass.

Also wasn't given LWOP. If he had been, there would have been no more
victims. Didn't require the death penalty So the example proves
nothing.


Tell
that to the victim prior to Carlie Brucia,

That guy also wasn't given LWOP. If he had been, there would have been
no more victims. Didn't require the death penalty So the example
proves nothing.



tell it to the victims that came
before Jessica Lunsford, etc.



That guy also wasn't given LWOP. If he had been, there would have been
no more victims. Didn't require the death penalty So the example
proves nothing.

You say 'they will never get out again'. I
say, look at history. Life may mean *life* now. Wait 20 or 30 years,
until
the prisons are more over-crowded and parole boards need to do a little
thinning out again.

Oh sure, I can just see some governor approving that...get real!!! You
think the system is good enough to never execute an innocent person,
but lousy enough to let the worst killers to free if they aren't
executed. C'mon, that's contradictory.


Think Kenneth MacDuff.

He got a plea bargain, that's how he got out. You want to outlaw plea
bargains? Has nothing to do with death penalty versus life without
parole.


He did NOT get a plea bargain. He got PAROLED.


Kenneth Mcduff was arrested May 4th, 1992. He was arrested when he should
have been dead.

Kenneth McDuff was convicted of the 1966 shooting deaths of two boys and the
vicious rape-strangulation of their 16-year-old female friend. A Fort Worth
jury ruled that McDuff should die in the electric chair, a sentence changed
to life in prison in 1972 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death
penalty. In 1989, with Texas officials under fire from the federal
judiciary, McDuff was quietly turned loose on an unsuspecting society.

Within days, a naked body of a woman turned up. Prostitute Sarafia Parker,
31, had been beaten, strangled and dumped in a field near Temple.

In early 1991, McDuff enrolled at Texas State Technical College in Waco.
Soon, Central Texas prostitutes began disappearing. One, Valencia Joshua,
22, was last seen alive Feb. 24, 1991. Her naked, decomposed body later was
discovered in a shallow grave in woods behind the college. Another of the
missing women, Regenia Moore, was last seen kicking and screaming in the cab
of McDuff's pickup truck. During the Christmas holidays of 1991, Colleen
Reed disappeared from an Austin car wash. Witnesses reported hearing a woman
scream that night and seeing two men speeding away in a yellow or tan
Thunderbird. Little more than two months later, on March 1, 1992, Melissa
Northrup, pregnant with a third child, vanished from the Waco convenience
store where she worked. McDuff's beige Thunderbird, broken down, was
discovered a block from the store.

Fifty-seven days later, a fisherman found the young woman's nearly nude body
floating in a gravel pit in Dallas County, 90 miles north of Waco. By then,
McDuff was the target of a nationwide manhunt. Just days after Mrs.
Northrup's funeral, McDuff was recognized on television's "America's Most
Wanted'' and arrested May 4 in Kansas City.

In 1993, a Houston jury ordered him executed for the kidnap-slaying of
22-year-old Melissa Northrup, a Waco mother of two. In 1994, a Seguin jury
assessed him the death penalty for the abduction-rape-murder of 28-year-old
Colleen Reed, an Austin accountant. Pamplin's son Larry, the current sheriff
of Falls County, appeared at McDuff's Houston trial for the 1992 abduction
and murder of Melissa Northrup.

"Kenneth McDuff is absolutely the most vicious and savage individual I
know,'' he told reporters. "He has absolutely no conscience, and I think he
enjoys killing.''
If McDuff had been executed as scheduled, he said, "no telling how many
lives would have been saved.''
At least nine, probably more, Texas authorities suspect.

His riegn of terror finally ended on November 17, 1998 when Kenneth McDuff
was put to death by the state of Texas by Lethal Injection. May his victims
rest in peace.

Now here we are, 14 years after his arrest and people want to abolish the
death penalty again. They want to set in motion the events that led to the
deaths of these women. When are people going to learn.


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The system is good enough that we'd only kill those clearly guilty, but
lousy enough that we can't possibly consider LWOP a real alternative.

Makes no sense.


Bo Raxo


And there is absolutely NO way you can assure me that won't happen again.


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