Texas Man Is Scheduled To Be Executed Even Though He Never Killed Anyone (cost, money)

[fitzy24]

No execution but decades or life in prison.

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by peequi

Wow what an interesting story. Texas is such an unique state. Sometimes I forget how diverse this country is.

Only to the ignorant people.

46 states have the similar Felony Murder Rule.

[skeeter31]

Originally Posted by Jimmyp25

I don't think he should not be executed.... He never killed anyone!?


https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08...er-killed-any/

So you agree he should be executed. Why are you now arguing your own opinion from the first post??

[katygirl68]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

Equally guilty based on that law does not mean he should be equally sentenced. The judge could have given the actual killer DP, and the driver a life in prison. Texas is not the only State with this law.

There was no life in prison without parole in 1992. In fact, at that time it had only recently been changed from a life sentence for capital murder having a minimum of something like 15 years to a life sentence for capital murder having a minimum of 35 years. Many people felt that murder or accessory to murder deserved life without parole, and short of that, the death penalty.

I wouldn't have sentenced the getaway driver for something the other guy did inside the store. If both people were inside the store when it happened, then I would understand the sentence. But the jury obviously felt he deserved more than 15 or 35 years in prison for it.

[Jimmyp25]

Originally Posted by skeeter31

So you agree he should be executed. Why are you now arguing your own opinion from the first post??

TYPO. It won't let me edit...

[Ferd]

1. not unique to Texas
2. he was involved int he planning of the crim
3. the guy that got murdered would rather be alive too...




This guy deserves the death penalty because he broke the law in a way that falls under the constitutionally approved legal requirement.


It is neither cruel nor unusual

[desertdetroiter]

They'll execute their own mothers down there for jaywalking.

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by katygirl68

I wouldn't have sentenced the getaway driver for something the other guy did inside the store. If both people were inside the store when it happened, then I would understand the sentence. But the jury obviously felt he deserved more than 15 or 35 years in prison for it.

Wood was outside the store when the clerk was shot; however, after the clerk was shot and lying on the floor bleeding to death, Wood essentially stepped over the dying clerk to retrieve the safe and other items.

[pknopp]

No one has the right IMO to take the life of another outside of direct self defense. An eye for an eye only makes everyone blind.

He most certainly should pay for his actions but in taking his life we are no better than him.

[Ih2puo]

Capital murder. Your actions led to the death of a human being. You did kill him.