John Couey Sentenced to Die

[Gawain 0]

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Okay, so does anyone here really have a problem with this? After what he did to this poor girl?

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[BillyVance 35]

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Okay, so does anyone here really have a problem with this? After what he did to this poor girl?

Nope, fry his ass. Oh wait, they don't use the electric chair anymore...

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[normiss 906]

damnit we did until not too long ago! and there's talk of bringing it back in this state so maybe he'll get it....although, given 20 years of the appeal process, I'll bet he dies before they kill him.
If he survives in prison...given the way they treat chesters in there...

and I still say life in prison is a harsher sentence than death...but that's me...

[Muenkel 0]

I personally oppose the death penalty, but if I'm honest; after hearing the horrific details of the murder; I have to question myself.

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[TheBachelor 5]

The sad thing is it will probably be 20 years or more until he is executed. Timothy McVeigh did the right thing, refused all appeals, and took his punishment.

There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years...

[BillyVance 35]

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Timothy McVeigh did the right thing, refused all appeals, and took his punishment.

His was a federal crime. Feds do their executions much faster.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Gawain 0]

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The sad thing is it will probably be 20 years or more until he is executed. .

Maybe he'll follow this advice from her dad:

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Outside court, Lunsford had a message for Couey: "Skip all these appeals. Take your punishment. Stand up and be a man."

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[DFWAJG 4]

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I personally oppose the death penalty, but if I'm honest; after hearing the horrific details of the murder; I have to question myself.

I, too, Muenkel, am opposed to the death penalty. One of the purposes of the death penalty is supposed to deter murder rates. But in the minority of states who do not have a death penalty, there or no more murders in those states than in there adjoining capital punishment states (paraphrased from From Hearst to Hughes by Donald Lunde, MD

[DZJ 0]

While this guy would appear to richly deserve the death penalty, that doesn't change my objection to capital punishment. The evidence in this case seems clear-cut, but when it is not, justice systems that allow the death penalty essentially take a massive gamble with the chance that the condemned may later be proved innocent as has happened many times. To my mind a justice system that allows such a possibility cannot be considered just.

For what it's worth, I hope this man accepts his fate and spares the family the agony of the appeals process.

[martin-o 0]

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I, too, Muenkel, am opposed to the death penalty. One of the purposes of the death penalty is supposed to deter murder rates. But in the minority of states who do not have a death penalty, there or no more murders in those states than in there adjoining capital punishment states (paraphrased from From Hearst to Hughes by Donald Lunde, MD

At least Amnesty international claims that less than half of the worlds nations still uses the death penalty. Non of the countries in the European Union has capital punishment. I think that even Russia has abandoned the death penalty. The only European country to still convict and execute people is Belarus.

/Martin

[DFWAJG 4]

as notorious as his case is, he will likely be killed in prison....maybe even by one of the other sex offenders.

[Amazon 7]

So you are good with usurping GODs right to judge a piece of shit like this..

As horrible and evil as this man is.. I do not want HIS death on my conscience. I will leave his judgement to the Lord.

Put him in a jail with other low life scum..ostracized from the good people in our society and let him rot there for the rest of his unnatural life.

[Richards 0]

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Okay, so does anyone here really have a problem with this? After what he did to this poor girl?

Nope. It is a shame that his death will be conducted in a humane manner though.

My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

[happythoughts 0]

Jail is theoretically a deterrent or a source of rehabilitation. Neither will happen.

He raped her and buried her alive.

Individuals have the right of self-defense.
We now have "hate crime" legislation when people are a threat to a segment of society.
He was a threat to all children and all of society.

The moment that he admitted to this crime, someone should have killed him in self-defense.

[Zenister 0]

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He raped her and buried her alive.

some actions count as resigning from humanity, and once preformed I no longer feel any obligation to treat those who commit them as such.

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