Robert M. Simels, pissing off prosecutors since Giuliani, is currently cold chilling in his Westchester crib waiting for his violent-Guyanese-cocaine-conspiracy trial.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
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CP: Eric Pendergrass, found asphixiated in the Patapsco, was possibly abducted whilst delivering a mysterious plastic bag.
Robert M. Simels, pissing off prosecutors since Giuliani, is currently cold chilling in his Westchester crib waiting for his violent-Guyanese-cocaine-conspiracy trial.
Robert M. Simels, pissing off prosecutors since Giuliani, is currently cold chilling in his Westchester crib waiting for his violent-Guyanese-cocaine-conspiracy trial.
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I can't believe I missed this editorial from the Washington Times last week.
"The flaws of the anti-death penalty arguments are well illustrated by the report issued by Mr. Civiletti's panel, the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment. In calling for an end to the death penalty, the committee (packed by the governor with a reliably anti-capital punishment majority) argued that there is an unacceptable risk of executing an innocent person. But they didn't even try to make the argument that any of the five men on Maryland's death row - Anthony Grandison, Heath Burch, John Booth-el, Vernon Evans, or Jody Miles - was innocent of the murder he was convicted of.
The study went to preposterous lengths to minimize the dangers inmates sentenced to life imprisonment pose to correctional officers and inmates, with the majority making a remarkable assertion: Offenders sentenced to life without parole, it said, "pose minimal risk to correctional officers and other inmates." It is difficult to believe that members of the panel were unaware of the recent murder of correctional officer David McGuinn, who was murdered by inmates serving life sentences at the Maryland House of Correction, or that Mr. Civiletti and his colleagues were not told about the case of Kevin Johns. Johns, already facing life behind bars for murdering his uncle and strangling a cellmate to death, was convicted last year of strangling a second inmate aboard a prison bus. In Allegany County, prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Alonzo Johnson III, an inmate already serving a life sentence who is accused of strangling his cellmate to death at Western Correctional Institution.
The reality is that another life sentence for another violent crime means nothing to an inmate already serving life behind bars. The threat of execution is one of the few potential deterrents available to deal with such incorrigible, violent inmates. But Mr. O'Malley and his political allies are fighting to take this potential sanction away. "
I'm also surprised I missed this story. Late last month the Allegany County state's attorney announced he would seek the death penalty against Alonzo Johnson for the murder of his cellmate at WCI. Johnson is already serving a life sentence. I'm sure that death penalty opponents will chime in and say that capital punishment is wrong, and clearly Johnson should be punished with another life sentence. That'll show him alright!
Oh, here is the story I mentioned in the previous post.
Meanwhile down in Virginia they're working to expand the number of crimes that are eligible for capital punishment. It's nice to see that the degenerate thug-hugger mentality hasn't taken over everywhere.
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