“Exhibit H” for a Swift and Expanded Implementation of Capital Punishment

St. Paul mom-to-be shoved into van, raped

(Star Tribune)

A 22-year-old pregnant woman taking a Saturday afternoon walk from her apartment to a store on St. Paul’s East Side was forced into a car by a stranger, driven around the block and shoved into a van in a garage, where she was repeatedly sexually attacked.

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The woman, who is 6 months pregnant, reported the rapes to police a week after the incident…

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According to the search warrant, after the woman was raped by her first attacker, she stepped away to throw up and a second assailant said, “Don’t pull your pants up yet” before he raped her.

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After he drove the car around the block, two other males led the woman into the garage, where they took off her pants and where she was forced to perform oral sex on one man. She then was raped by a second man, and as she stepped away, the first rapist reappeared with a condom.

The second man raped her, the charges say, and when she became sick again, he said: “Just take it.”

“Additional young males came into the garage and watched,” according to the complaint, and when the two alleged rapists “finished with her, she ran from the garage.”

The picture at the top of this post is of a woman six months into a pregnancy. Imagine your wife or daughter, a visibly pregnant woman, being kidnapped and repeatedly raped while she puked. And then tell me that a decent society allows men like these to live.

“Exhibit G” for a Swift and Expanded Implementation of Capital Punishment

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,367362,00.html

TARBORO, N.C. — A couple accused of killing their 13-year-old son by tying him to a tree for two nights for punishment…

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Sheriff James Knight has said the boy was left tied to the tree until the following afternoon, when his stepmother found him unresponsive. Authorities believe the boy was bound to the tree with plastic ties and possibly other kinds of material.

Arrest warrants for both McMillans said the child sustained “bruising to the wrist, cuts to entire body, missing flesh from buttocks, results from being tied to a tree for approximately 18 hours resulting in death.”

I find myself frequently under the conviction that this nation’s “justice” system is itself a judgment from God. I pray that God would show mercy and that justice would be done in North Carolina for this poor boy.

Argh!

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=6578462&version=4&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

“A Minneapolis man stopped an assault-in-progress early Sunday morning, after investigating screams from the woods outside his home near the train tracks.The man went outside to investigate, following the source of the screams. He found a man trying to sexually assault a 15-year-old girl. She was extremely upset and scared.

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The suspect is a convicted sex offender.”

I watched the above story on Fox9 News a few nights ago. I was taken aback when the reporter stated that the suspect had been convicted of First Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct in 2004. That was only four years ago! “Criminal Sexual Conduct”, particularly in the First Degree, is legalese for rape.

Minnesota State Statute 609.342

Criminal Sexual Conduct in the First Degree

“A person who engages in sexual penetration with another
person, or in sexual contact with a person under 13 years of age as defined in section…”

“circumstances existing at the time of the act cause the complainant to have a reasonable
fear of imminent great bodily harm to the complainant or another”

” the actor is armed with a dangerous weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner
to lead the complainant to reasonably believe it to be a dangerous weapon and uses or threatens to
use the weapon or article to cause the complainant to submit”

“…a person convicted under subdivision 1 may be sentenced to
imprisonment for not more than 30 years…”

“…the court shall presume that an executed sentence of 144 months must be imposed on an offender convicted of violating this section. Sentencing a person in a manner other than that described in this paragraph is a departure from the Sentencing Guidelines.”

How does a rapist end up on the street after serving 3-4 years of a 12-30 year sentence? I was unable to find any information on this story outside Fox9’s website. I sent Fox9 an email asking to verify this information. (I have yet to receive a response.) If it is true that this suspect was convicted only four years ago of rape, the parties responsible for this man’s early release should thank God I am not the father of this 15-year-old girl.

You know, if they would have executed this rapist, this poor girl would not have needed rescuing from her neighbors.

Argh!

“Exhibit F” for a Swift and Expanded Implementation of Captial Punishment

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335951,00.html

They drugged, bludgeoned and strangled their 16-year-old victim to death then they knelt over her lifeless, bloody body to kiss before dumping her in a wheelbarrow.

Stasinowsky and Parashumti, who had been together just a month, have offered no explanation or motive for the killing other than that Stacey “annoyed” them.

Court hearings have been punctuated with laughter, smirking and smiling.

Even during sentencing submissions in January, the couple was told twice by Blaxell to stop their light-hearted behavior as the graphic details of the crime were read.

Prosecutor Dave Dempster described the killing as a sustained attack that lasted at least half an hour. He has demanded strict-security imprisonment — a non-parole period of at least 20 to 30 years.

 

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That a society would leave open the possibility for these murderers to taste decades of potential freedom is repugnant.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

“Exhibit E” for a Swift and Expanded Implementation of Captial Punishment

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,334818,00.html

LONDON — YouTube is facing criticism for making it too easy for people to upload violent or sexually explicit content to the Internet after a 25-year-old mother was filmed while being raped.

A three-minute video showing the mother sexually assaulted by three boys after her drink had been spiked was uploaded soon after the incident, which took place in November.

In the clip, which was filmed with a mobile phone, the mother appears to be unconscious, with her head lolling from side to side, as she is repeatedly raped. Her 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son are heard crying in the background.

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“…the mother appears to be unconscious, with her head lolling from side to side, as she is repeatedly raped. Her 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son are heard crying in the background.”

“…the mother appears to be unconscious, with her head lolling from side to side, as she is repeatedly raped. Her 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son are heard crying in the background.”

“…the mother appears to be unconscious, with her head lolling from side to side, as she is repeatedly raped. Her 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son are heard crying in the background.”

“…the mother appears to be unconscious, with her head lolling from side to side, as she is repeatedly raped. Her 2-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son are heard crying in the background.”

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Did that sink in?

I believe it is important to place oneself in the shoes of the victims and the victims’ loved ones when contemplating the horror of these kinds of crimes and the appropriate punishments. Close your eyes. Picture your daughter/mother/wife/sister being repeatedly raped in the immediate presence of her small children. Picture it, and then tell me a decent and responsible government would allow these perpetrators to continue to draw breath.

And yes, I believe capital punishment is fitting for “boys” of this age (14-16). They were mature enough to drug and rape a woman. They are mature enough to face the appropriate punishment.

 

“Exhibit D” for a Swift and Extended Implementation of Capital Punishment

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331732,00.html

PEORIA, Ill. — A central Illinois couple faces first-degree murder charges in the death of their 5-month-old baby, who was found unresponsive in a car seat that had been placed in a crib.

…police found the infant sitting in his own waste, all the while strapped into the seat which was in a crib.

During the eight days the baby was strapped in the seat, both Hermann and Sargent were home, “playing video games, watching TV, feeding and caring for themselves…”

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“Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.”

- Don Feder

Well said.

 

“Exhibit C” for a Swift and Expanded Implementation of Capital Punishment

INDIANAPOLIS — Four men were arrested Saturday in connection with the fatal shootings of a baby, a toddler and their mothers while the women held their children in their arms, police said.

Police said Yarrell, her 4-month-old daughter Charlii, Hunt and her 23-month-old son, Jordan, were shot multiple times in the face and torso.

Yarrell and Charlii are pictured above.

Please tell me why these men should live. Justice demands they pay with their lives.

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“Exhibit B” for a Swift and Expanded Implementation of Capital Punishment

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317689,00.html

A man believed to be linked to a 1999 sexual assault in Maryland involving a cattle prod was mistakenly released from prison due to a clerical error…

On Oct. 23, 1999, a masked man forced his way into an apartment and told the woman living there that he would kill her baby if she made any noise. He then forced her to perform a sex act, shocked her with a cattle prod and punched her “numerous times” in the head before fleeing…

 

Unfortunately, Mr. Moore is still at large. If and when he is apprehended, Mr. Moore will not face the death penalty - despite brutally raping a woman with the assistance of a cattle prod. Why?

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Mr. Moore has been apprehended and attempted to kill himself in a Louisiana jail. He is in critical condition.

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“Exhibit A” for a Swift and Expanded Implementation of Capital Punishment

I am preparing a post on the death penalty right now, but couldn’t resist posting this news story from Fox News.

Tillie, who was armed with a handgun, shot Parker in the side of the head and in the arm after Ford stopped for gas, but before he could fire a third shot, Goggins jumped over the seat between her mother and Tillie, begging him to stop, the Detroit News reported. Without hesitation, Tillie reportedly pumped six shots into the child.

The first grader is in stable condition…

Mr. Tillie has inspired me to post these horrendous items whenever I see them as a way to display the sickness of a society that refuses to deal appropriately with those members who exhibit a wanton disregard for human life. Mr. Tillie is “Exhibit A” in the case for a swift and expanded implementation of capital punishment in this nation.

Swift, because Mr. Tillie’s victims should not be required to wait years and decades for justice. I believe a convicted person facing capital punishment should be allotted, at most, 12-18 months for appeal. Those involved in the system know that a death row inmate will string out a series of appeals over several years, not because there is any legitimate belief in innocence or a miscarriage of justice, but merely to postpone the inevitable. A system could be established wherein competent counsel for the convict could put forward every possible and reasonable appeal in one hearing.

Expanded, because I don’t believe premeditated murder is the only crime worthy of execution. Here, for example, Mr. Tillie had every intention of destroying a woman and her young daughter. What sense does it make to award Mr. Tillie with a lesser sentence, because he failed to accomplish his deadly aims? He did, after all, discharge eight rounds at close range into his two victims. His incompetence should not serve as a mitigating factor in his charging or sentencing.

Also, I believe most Americans would consent to executing child rapists and other violent sexual predators. I don’t know where it is written that only those who successfully murder another human being are eligible for execution.

I look forward to the discussions that arise from this series. I am particularly interested in a critique of capital punishment from a Christian/Biblical perspective.

 

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