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Skilzat99X
Didnt see it posted anywhere else, soooo...
http://lasvegas.cox.net/cci/newsnational/n...le&id=D8C2HI201

Yup, he got what was comin. More lives to serve than a cat has.

Thoughts?
bornestar
Just kill him... he will live a life in jail that won't be hard
blush
jail won't be hard for him? huhhhhhhhhh.... well I suppose they will put him in solitary for his own protection, so nevermind.
bornestar
maybe the gaurds will stick something up his wahoo

Still dobut it
Rikki
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WICHITA, Kan. -- Evil incarnate. A demon. A depraved predator. So evil that Stephen King couldn't have created a more monstrous character.


Good to see that news broadcaster doesn't get emotionally involved in their stories blink.gif
Simon
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The sentence _ a minimum of 175 years without a chance of parole _ was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver. Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed.

I can't say I've heard of this case before, but it sounds like he got what he deserved.
Skilzat99X
QUOTE(Rikki @ Aug 18 2005, 05:24 PM) *
Good to see that news broadcaster doesn't get emotionally involved in their stories blink.gif

True.

Anyways if they dont put him in solitary he'll probably get hurt someway by other prisoners, they always do that to famous criminals.
blush
QUOTE(Rikki @ Aug 18 2005, 05:24 PM) *
Good to see that news broadcaster doesn't get emotionally involved in their stories blink.gif

I think these were examples of what the victims families were saying, though the article doesn't make that clear. It's pretty much in line with the statements I heard on the news this evening, they showed a clip of one guy telling him his mother should have aborted his demon soul or something like that.
Michael_C
QUOTE(bornestar @ Aug 19 2005, 11:59 AM) *
Just kill him... he will live a life in jail that won't be hard

He's never going to get out of jail so dieing would be the easy option...
Quillz
I don't know much about how sentences are determined, but what is the point of assigning 10 life sentences? Or 175 years in jail? Why not just give him one life sentence? I don't see what the difference is. He's going to die in jail, anyway.
Ostrea
QUOTE(Quillz @ Aug 19 2005, 03:59 AM) *
I don't know much about how sentences are determined, but what is the point of assigning 10 life sentences? Or 175 years in jail? Why not just give him one life sentence? I don't see what the difference is. He's going to die in jail, anyway.

It has to do with the formula for eligibility for parole. This way, the judge makes sure that there will be no chance for him to get out under the current parole regulations. And that there wil be no parole hearings, even if just formalities before throwing him back into prison, to drag all this up again for the victims' families.
Sam Granger
QUOTE(bornestar @ Aug 18 2005, 05:10 PM) *
maybe the gaurds will stick something up his wahoo

Still dobut it

They might! I've seen what americans do to their prisoners (they treat them like crap in some places, but thats probably the same in other countries too).

Evidence: http://informationclearinghouse.info/video1/2prison.wmv (watch the whole video)
Adam Kinder
QUOTE(Rikki @ Aug 18 2005, 08:24 PM) *
Good to see that news broadcaster doesn't get emotionally involved in their stories blink.gif


You'll find that American news reporters/journalists do that all the time, it's impossible to get any unbiased report from anyone.

But in this case, I would agree with the reporter's first few lines, this was a sick sick person.
trustedfaith
The ironic thing is that the BTK killer reveled in the attention he would get from the news about his crimes. That's why he wrote the letters to the police and through the media in the first place. So what happens when he finally gets sentenced? He gets to revel in it again by all the coverage the media gave it.

Instead of talking over and over about the BTK killer, a quiet notice in the back page of the newspaper would have sufficed and moreso a memorial to the victims should have had more coverage (without the description of what the BTK killer did). Let the spotlight remember the people, not the crimes. That would have been the smart thing to do.

His defense lawyer went on the record to say that the whole sentencing was the prosecution's way of making an unneeded spectacle parading the victim's family into the courtroom as well as the sentencing in the first place because they (the defense lawyer and Dennis Rader) agreed to the stiffiest punishment. Apparently the defense lawyer has never had a family member murdered.

Here's some food for thought. They are currently re-investigating a cold case now that they have solved the BTK killings and prosecuted the serial killer (Dennis Rader). They think he might be the one responsible for it. This particular cold case was in 1994. For reference, the reason why he didn't get capital punishment for the crimes, was because at the time they were committed, Kansas hadn't reinstituted their death penalty yet.

But if they link him to this cold case, try him for it, and find him guilty, he will then be eligible for the capital punishment because by 1994, Kansas had reinstituted their death penalty.

I find it oddly coincidental that if they have him as a possible suspect for the 1994 cold case, that he wouldn't admit he killed 11 people, because then -he- has the chance of dying. While he admitted to the first 10, if he did commit the 11th crime, you can bet he'll never confess to it.
kafloo
he just needs therapy lol


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