I met Maria Aparece briefly the day before she disappeared through a friend from my church at a concert in Galveston. May she and the other victims rest in peace. I hope they throw the book at these guys. My friend had just received the news this past Sunday and was obviously distraught and shaken, I can't imagine what the families are going through.
I'd rather they be in Jail with no possible parole at all...Better to watch themselves rot away as insignificant than a quick, easy painless death...
Why do you say that? Is it because: 1) Murdering multiple people needlessly and during the commissions of other crimes is hardly grounds for capital punishment and certainly not warranted under Texas law? 2) They happen to live in Texas, which has a reputation for never wanting to put anyone to death? 3) They are black, and are coddled by the American justice system? 4) They are poor and will therefore be given the State's finest public defenders?
5) None of the above. I think that whichever one agrees to testify against the others will probably be given some sort of deal. I hope that I'm wrong.
This is the story I posted about in the Phillippines Death Penalty thread. These guys have showed no remorse. My mother used to drive the young girl's mother to and from elementary school PTO meetings and activities becaue she didn't know how to drive at the time. The young girl's brother was a classmate of my sister's for numerous years. Needless to say, I feel no remorse in saying I feel these 5 deserve to die.
Not to mention that keeping a prisoner in prison for life is actually cheaper than putting a condemned prisoner to death.
I've heard this about 20 times on here in the past day. I don't think anyone has any definitive information. It's hard to find an unbiased source but I've found studies saying both. Stating what you stated as truth without proof is a little misleading. Especially considering I'm not sure that proof exists for either case.
Even if they do, it'll be 15 years before it even happens and it will be our tax dollars paying for their meals, what a joke.
Seeing as all 5 have confessed and we don't have to worry about the "putting an innocent person to death" argument, how many are still against the death penalty in this case?
Supposedly in China, if you're convicted of murder, they take you right out of the courtroom and put a bullet in your head.
What should we do then? Lock them up in overcrowded prisons and feed them for the rest of their lives? They took life so they should get the same treatment.
I totally disagree. Prison is not a resort, but it isn't a POW camp either. Prisoners have rights. These guys (and gal) will not "rot away."
I think capital murderers should be given their own choice of death penalty or life without parole. As emotionally right as it feels it's hard for me to support the death penalty because I don't believe you can ever know the full truth about anything (The Uncertainty Principle) and there are probably some societal or mental capacity issues with a lot of killers. They have to be removed though, no doubt about that. But to make the death penalty work you would need something like an desireable sucide choice, like lock them in a room with a kilo of heroin and fentenyl. I know I would rather commit suicide than live in prison for life, especially if I knew I had done the crime.
I see what you mean -- that not all 5 will get the death penalty. The squeeler might escape death. And, it might be decided that the actual murdering was really the act of only a couple of them. If that were the case, then they probably shouldn't all be executed anyway.
