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I don't know if you've read the headlines today, but Governor Perry spared the life of a convicted murderer. This is a travesty for the LaHood family, whose 25 year old son was gunned down in what was called a "botched robbery."
The reason, Kenneth Foster, convicted robber and murderer, did not know what his accomplice was doing, even after they'd spent the entire night robbing people.
It's just a shame that the Lahood family will never know justice. I pray that Kenneth Foster days in prison are long and hard, filled with rape and savagery. He should have been executed. The Foster family deserves justice for the untimely loss of their son.
Please, let's not "hug a criminal." This man deserves to die, and in the words of Mr. LaHood's father, "I will be glad to push the needle for him."
Any opponants to capital punishment wish to challenge me? You go talk to Mr. LaHood's father. Tell him how you would like to hug his murderer.
Well, I'm skeptical of the whole legal notion of felony-murder, and few states still allow it. But it's not like they were egging someone's house and someone died in a freak accident where a homeowner slipped and fell while ducking an incoming egg and hit his head and died. A fatal shooting is an obviously foreseeable outcome of an armed robbery spree, and I'm not particularly moved that this jagoff wasn't the triggerman and didn't think something like this would happen. Even so, I don't think life in prison is a particularly lenient sentence given his role in the events. It's not like he's getting off in 20 years with good behavior.
anyone who has ever visited a TX prison (and I have not had that urge) can probably supply first had info that it is not the kind of place anyone would want to be for 20 years--
Well, I'm skeptical of the whole legal notion of felony-murder, and few states still allow it. But it's not like they were egging someone's house and someone died in a freak accident where a homeowner slipped and fell while ducking an incoming egg and hit his head and died. A fatal shooting is an obviously foreseeable outcome of an armed robbery spree, and I'm not particularly moved that this jagoff wasn't the triggerman and didn't think something like this would happen. Even so, I don't think life in prison is a particularly lenient sentence given his role in the events. It's not like he's getting off in 20 years with good behavior.
It will probably get ruled by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional. Try riding in your friend's "new car" and get pulled over by the police. It's actually against the law to ride in a stolen car probably even if you didn't know it was stolen and your friend said that this is his "new car."
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