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Domestic Terrorism

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Posts: 7860 | Location: Georgetown, Texas | Registered: January 25, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Massachusetts has no death penalty and now the citizenry hopes the federal system will prosecute so that the death penalty can be given. Even the mayor hopes the feds get involved so that the maximum punishment can be given. Wouldn't even be a concern if it had occurred in Texas.
 
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Murder of Police Officer

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Murder of Elderly

A Galveston County jury spent a little less than two hours deciding Granger, 42, will constitute a danger to society in the future and that no mitigating circumstances justified giving the Houston man life in prison for the March 14, 2012 fatal shooting of a 79-year-old Deweyville grandmother.

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Preference of Defendant

Minutes after her conviction for killing a former boyfriend, Arias told a TV station she would "prefer to die sooner than later," complicating matters for defense lawyers who had hoped to spare her life during the penalty phase of the trial.
 
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Murder of Guard

Snohomish County jurors were told during the trial that the convicted rapist was already serving a sentence of life without parole in 2011 when he strangled Jayme Biendl in the prison chapel.

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Multiple murders, rape of child

Chester admitted to killing four other people: John Henry Sepeda, 78, on Sept. 20, 1997; Etta Mae Stallings, 87, on Nov. 15. 1997; Cheryl DeLeon, 40, on Nov. 20, 1997; and Albert Bolden Jr., 35, on Dec. 21, 1997.
He also raped a 10-year-old girl.
A jail officer testified that Chester said he regretted raping such a young child.
"I'm sorry for that 10-year-old. I didn't know she was 10."
If he'd known her age, he said, he would have "gotten her momma, then."

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Presiding judge Masahiro Hiraki said the court had no choice but to sentence him to death because he murdered the three victims for selfish reasons aimed at rekindling the relationships with their sons.

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Ongoing violence

Attorneys for the prosecution argued that Jenkins is a continuing threat to society because of his convictions in four rapes in California and Texas that occurred before and after Norris’s rape and murder in November 1975. The prosecution also presented evidence of brutal assaults allegedly committed by Jenkins against inmates and staff at the Coalinga State Hospital in California, where Jenkins was indefinitely committed by the state after he was released from prison.

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The jury didn't even get to hear about the 3, yes 3, additional rape/murders that we discovered in the course of building Jenkins' punishment case, all of which have been re-opened and are currently being investigated
 
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In-prison murder by murderer

Maine State Police are calling the Tuesday night death of a convicted murderer incarcerated at the Maine State Prison in Warren a homicide perpetrated by another convicted murderer.

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But not in California:

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Murdering Officers (even in NY)

A jury in New York on Wednesday sentenced Ronell Wilson to death for killing two undercover police officers in 2003, setting up what would be the first federal execution of a New York defendant in six decades.

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Rape, Kidnap and Murder (of child)

Cruz-Garcia marks the first defendant from Harris County this year to receive the death penalty.

Over the past two weeks, jurors heard a brutal story about a home invasion that turned into a rape that turned into a kidnapping and murder. They also learned it was the sexual assault that ultimately led police to identify the 45-year-old.

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Murder of Prosecutors

Authorities will seek the death penalty against a former East Texas county official accused of killing three people, including two prosecutors.

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Mass Murder and Torture

It was on this date in 1973 — at about 8:30 in the morning — that 17-year-old Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. placed a call to Pasadena police. The teenager had shot and killed 33-year-old Dean Corll following a struggle.

Over the next few hours a macabre story would unfold in Houston. A story involving the gruesome deaths of nearly 30 youths, many with ties to the Heights. A story about burial sites at a southwest Houston boat stall Corll had rented, an area near Sam Rayburn Reservoir and a lonely stretch of beach near High Island.

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Future Danger

Scottie Thompson, 42, is already a convicted murderer. But he was let out of prison 20 years early, and just months after his release, he’s accused in another brutal murder.

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Repeated Murder of Your Cellmate

The man suspected of killing his cellmate at the Oregon State Penitentiary murdered a fellow inmate in a Minnesota prison in 1997.

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Mass slaughter

A military court on Wednesday sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

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A really strong case

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A really strong case

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Glad to see that opinion come down. The original decision made no sense at all. I don't think it's even possible to consider mitigating facts in a vacuum. What might be mitigating of one crime isn't necessarily mitigating of another. If you murder the person who sexually abused you as a child, that abuse would be strongly mitigating. But if you torture and murder 10 people, not so much!
 
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