Here's how I justify capital punishment : modern theology says that hell isn't fiery furnaces and wailing and gnashing of teeth and reruns of What's Happening. By doing evil, you choose to be apart from everybody else. So by giving you the chair, we are merely helping you be apart. If things are good on the other side, we're doing you a favor. If they're not, well, you're only getting a headstart on the path you yourself have chosen. There, I think that's logical.

November 2007: David Spears of Cassville MO and his friend Chris Collings are charged with the rape and strangulation of Spears' 9-year-old step-daughter. After they asssaulted and killd her, they left her body in a cave. Collings confessed after the body was found. These guys need to die, and die slowly,then more rapidly. For those who don't believe in capital punishment, here's a textbook case for it.
 

Jose Ernesto Medellin and a gang of utter scumbags in Houston raped and strangled two teenage girls who stumbled into their gang initiation on their way home. One of the gang has already been offed by the state of Texas. But it turns out that Medellin, who grew up in Houston, was actually born in Mexico, so now some sympathetic idiots say he should have had the right to appeal to his consulate, something he had YEARS to do. George "No Balls At All" Bush has for now sided with Mexico, saying that Medellin should escape death because of this. Well, F__K THAT. The details of the crime are absolutely horrific, and the Republicans running Texas are furious with Bush for sticking his moronic nose in
Of course, this is another symptom of the fact that Bush doesn't like to enforce the law.

Oh, and don't forget that the State Department offered (without approval or authority to do so) to the Blackwater schmucks who killed 17 civilians. 

Avion Lawson, 14, and Nathan Walker, 16, were among ten masked suspects who ambushed a woman and her 12-year-old son in a Florida housing project. They raped, sodomized, and beat the woman. Then they forced her son into having sex with her, then poured cleaning chemicals into the boy's eyes. 

These people need to DIE. They will never be rehabilitated. If they're ever on the street again, they will commit more crimes. They don't deserve to live after THIS crime. They need to die. That simple. Kill them. Gas them. Bury them alive. They need to die.

June 2007: Patrick Knight shot his next door neighbors to death in Amarillo in 1991. Then he wanted to go out with a laugh. He collected jokes for his last statement, and wanted a funny last line. An idiot friend even set up a web site for him so folks could send him jokes. Then he went out with no joke anyway. Too bad. I had a good one for him.

"Knock-knock."
"Who's there?"
"Dead asshole."
"Dead asshole who?"
"Soon you'll be a dead asshole."

May 2007: Patrick Kennedy raped an eight-year-old girl and was sentenced to death. No homicide, but the awful act of child rape. Various lawyers have said the sentence is too harsh. The correct opinion is, NO, it's not. He needs to die. After committing this heinous act, this piece of shit even bragged to another man that the girl "became a lady today." What a f_____g asshole. He needs to die.

Michael Devlin, 41, was found to have kidnapped a couple of boys in Missouri. One he'd held captive since 2002. Sure, the police caught him, and got the kids back, but ...... Just imagine the horror those parents went through, saying that they've kept up hope, but you gotta know, they figured their kid was dead. Devlin stole YEARS from all their lives. The kid was eleven when he disappeared. This piece of utter shit stole kids from their families. KILL HIM. Put him to death. Good-bye. You put a family through that, you should go in a hole. He also had kiddie porn on his computer. That's all lwe need to know. Hang him. Now. Today.

Forget rehabilitation, for two reasons. First, guys like this cannot be rehabbed. They're dangerous for life. Second, after what he did, he doesn't deserve it. He stole a chunk of the first kid's childhood, more than four years of it, AND he probably took years off the parents' lives with what they went through. So just hang him. Now. Today.
 
 

People who ASK for it Note on Singapore: they HANG people there. The Australians complained in December 2005 about one of their citizens who got hanged for smuggling drugs, which he admitted doing in order to pay off his brother's loan shark bills. Well, if you don't wanna get HANGED, stay the hell out of Singapore with your drugs. Otherwise, it's the equivalent of going to the doctor, poking yourself hard in the head, and saying, "Ow, it hurts when I do this."   The mental retardation excuse In June 2002, the execution of mentally retarded inmates was deemed unconstitutional.  And this is seemingly the right thing to think.  However, in some cases where an individual deemed retarded was put on Death Row, it was for a crime where said individual did unspeakably nasty, cruel things, and laughed while doing them.  So later, he pretends to be a halfwit to get out of his punishment?  Regardless of measured IQ, if someone has been foul enough, he should get the axe.   Pardoning the unpardonable Outgoing Illinois governor George Ryan cheated justice and the relatives of many, many victims when he commuted all death sentences in the state.  The only reason this was done was because the governor, in the midst of a massive driver license scandal (for which he was found guilty), wanted to go out on a good note.  The fact that he gave away a ton of jobs to cronies, and a bunch of the state's money to a bunch of other cronies, indicates the shallowness of his dedication. Some lawyers have tried appeals based on the notion that lethal injection is cruel and unusual. But what the hell do they want?  It doesn't get any more peaceful than that.  Some of these guys who get the needle have done heinous, awful crimes. Can't hang people, can't shoot 'em, can't fry 'em anymore. Well, they get put to sleep. It's like taking a nap.   Jailhouse religious conversions Found Jesus and now you're off the hook? Nobody's buying it. "He's not the same guy anymore," the lawyers say. Before Earl Richmond of North Carolina was put down for murdering two women and two chidlren, his lawyer said that the guy who committed the crime "died many years ago," i.e. was a changed man. Actually, no, he died on the table. His VICTIMS died many years ago, however.   Got the wrong guy June 2006: The Chicago Tribune ran a series of articles about a guy in Texas who might have been executed for the crimes committed by another man. If true, this is a terrible miscarriage of justice. The other guy needs to answer for it. HOWEVER, the man who did die for those crimes was also a complete and utter scumbag, who had committed numerous crimes, including violent ones. If you don’t want to be mistakenly picked up for the crimes of others, it’s a good idea to not be the SORT of person the police would suspect. In other words, you make your own luck.    Give that man a prize Enough with the "and he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize" bullshit. ANYBODY can get nominated for the damn thing. George Ryan, former Illinois governor and convicted criminal, was nominated because he commuted the death sentences of everybody on Illinois' Death Row, screwing MANY people out of justice for their loved ones. Why did he do it? Because he was trying to look like a good guy after getting sniffed out for massive corruption while in office. Gang member and convicted murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams was nominated as well. Mumia has also been nominated. It doesn't take a lot for somebody to BE nominated. So a nomination is no indication whatsoever that the nominee is a good person.

Okay, here are the bad guys

September 2006: In Milwaukee, an 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by as many as twenty boys (and a 40-year-old man who actually copped to it), and the action was directed by a 16-year-old girl. See, this is why we need a benign dictator (as opposed to the elitist dictator GW Bush, who enforces no laws at all), who would order the roundup of all the offenders, regardless of their ages, and have them all buried alive. Seriously, we can't wipe out this kind of unbelievable behavior, but we can stem the tide somewhat by removing large numbers of those who would pass on their bad habits to others by way of example. Just bury them alive. Alive. Again, this is why, as da wife explains, that they don't put me in charge of things.
 

August 2006: Liz and David Carroll of Cincinnati OH were the foster parents of a disabled three year old boy. More than once, they wrapped him in a blanket, then wrapped the blanket in tape, and put him in a closet, to keep him locked down while they attended to other matters. The last time they did it, they attended a family reunion for two days in Kentucky, leaving the boy again in the closet. When they returned, he was dead. They tried burning his body in a wooded area. In the meantime, they claimed he'd wandered off, prompting a search by volunteers. These people need to be wrapped in tape and left in the f****g desert. These are the worst sort of scum imaginable.
 

July 2006: Paul and Robin Kraft of Cincinnati molested their own kids, and Paul even offered to rape his own 3-year-old on webcam if another person would do the same. If you were to read everything they did to their own kids, it would put you off solid food. He got consecutive life terms, and the mom is still awaiting sentencing. The kids, according to officials, are all messed up, and may never be normal, even after plenty of counseling. These two people should be buried in a f***g hole someplace. Alive. Until they aren't.
 

July 2006: Richard Allen Davis, who kidnapped, molested, and killed Polly Klaas, tried to OD his way off of Death Row. Too bad for him, he pulled through. He was the inspiration for California's three-strikes law. He's also a poster child for capital punishment.
 

June 2006: A judge has thrown out the confession of John Evander Couey, who had admitted to kidnapping, raping, and then burying alive 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. She was found in a garbage bag. It's inconceivable. Her last moments must have been unbelievable. The judge decided that Couey had asked for a lawyer, and wasn't given one. Figure, if he's ever let out of jail, he won't last ten minutes. This guy is possibly the worst person to be mentioned on this page. He is human f____g filth. He will burn in hell. The state of Florida has to figure out how to send him there sooner than later.
 
 

April 2006: Kareem Johnson and Kennell Spady were both setenced to life for a shootout that left a 10-year-old boy dead. It was a massive gun battle, including assault weapons, with more than 90 bullets being fired. Johnson cursed the dead boy in court, and Spady said he would haunt the boy's family. They had claimed self-defense, when rival drug
dealers opened fire. Holy shit! 

One of the boy's relatives made a statement in court: "I would like the self-centered, soul-less, ignorant, moronic drug dealers to remember that day." Very well said.
 
 

You're never too old to pay the price

January 2006: Two idiots in Ft. Lauderdale, Brian Hooks, 18, and Thomas S. Daugherty, 17, turned themselves in to police, who have charged them with aggravated battery in the beating of one homeless man, and murder charges in the beating death of another homeless man. They're suspects in at least one other beating. They were captured on a security camera in one of the beatings, making it a fairly certain thing that they would get caught eventually. The correct opinion is, if these morons are actually guilty, and the negotiated surrender makes it a pretty sure thing, then they should get wiped. They did this for one obvious reason: for kicks. They beat a man to death, and likely clobbered at least two others, for their own sick amusement. Since they're more than old enough to know right from wrong, good from evil, that means that they are seriously twisted, that the adults in their lives failed miserably as role models, and they're too old to get fixed. Their extreme insensitivity to other humans is not going away. Therefore, THEY should.

April 2006: Keith Robert Turner, 17, and David Henry Tuck, 18, beat the hell out of a 16-year-old Hispanic boy they thought had tried to kiss a white girl at a party. They forced him out of the house, beat him, then sodomized him with a metal pipe. THEN they poured bleach on him, attempting to destroy any DNA evidence. The kid suffered severe internal injuries, and likely will die. Even if he lives, these two should hang. That simple.
 

November 2005: Joseph Smith was caught on a security camera walking an 11-year-old away from a car wash. She was later found, having been sexually assaulted and murdered. He'd been nailed previously for battery, kidnapping, heroin possession, and carrying a concealed weapon, and should never have been on the street at the time he killed the little girl. Better than lethal injection, let the girl's family have at him with baseball bats. But he has been sentenced to death.
 
 

June 2005: A guy who will absolutely burn in hell adopted a Russian-born girl when she was five. He went on to produce hundreds of pornographic photos of her, and traded them with other scumbags. She has since been rescued and re-adopted by another family in another state. His identity is being kept secret to protect hers. He's doing fifteen years for child porno, and faces additional charges as well. He could end up doing life. Better yet, let him do death.
 

May 2005: Gregory Scott Johnson, 40, got the needle this month for beating and stomping an 82-year-old woman to death in 1985, then setting her house on fire to hide the crime. He is now burning in hell.
 
 

May 2005: Jerry Hobbs, 34, just got out of jail in Texas, where he did time for chasing the mother of his kid with a chainsaw. He'd previously been busted for hurting her, along with driving while impaired, possession of pot, and miscellaneous stupidity.
 

Right after leaving jail, he took a bus to Chicago, had an argument with the mom again, then hunted down and killed his  8-year-old daughter, Laura, and her 9-year-old classmate, Krystal Tobias. He beat and stabbed them to death, while they were out bike-riding, apparently just to spite the mom. He admits the deed. When people protest against capital punishment, I just point out cases like this.

You need to die. Seriously. Die

 
 

May 2005: Ohio highway sniper Charles McCoy Jr. pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with his lawyer blaming his “untreated paranoid schizophrenia” for his “not knowing that what he did was wong.” Bullshit. He knew enough to work hard at avoiding capture, and knew enough to flee to Vegas after being identified. Obviously he knew it was wrong. Screw this insanity stuff here.

May 2005: Dennis Rader, aka the BTK Killer, slaughtered an entire famliy back int he mid 70's. He cruelly tied up and tortured his victims. He's charged with ten killings altogether. He also kept artifacts from his victims, and taunted the police, the press, and victims' families by sending messages. He's pulling this "I'm not talking" thing, resulting in a judge automatically entering a not guilty plea for him. But he knows exactly what's going on. He's just shutting up. Maybe he'll let out a peep when they stick him with a needle.

Spring 2005: For some weird reason, there's a spate of kidnappings and killings of young girls, especially down south, especially in Florida. And it always ends up the same way: some sex offender doing his thing. Every single one of these guys should just be strung up, the old-fashioned way. That is to say, hands tied behind the back, sitting on a horse, neck in a noose, then the horse moves on, and the guy dangles. End of story. You can't rehab them, they just re-offend. So cut them off at the pass.

July 2002: Leonard Gregg, a contract firefighter who set a fire in Arizona which turned into a massive blaze that ultimately consumed a half million acres of forest and destroy 423 homes, confessed to investigators that he did it in order to scare up summer work.  Then he had the balls to plead not guilty in court.  Pull the switch.  Seriously.

March 2002: Nurse's aide Chante Mallard, 25, of Fort Worth, hit a homeless guy in October '01, then drove all the way home and parked in her garage, with the guy stuck headfirst in her windshield.  She left him there to bleed to death over a couple of days. Later, his body was found in a park, and she told somebody about it at a party.  That somebody called the police, and she was charged with murder.  She told police that over those couple of days, she periodically went into the garage to apologize to him, but not help him.  She was found guilty of murder and evidence tampering.

      Here's the correct opinion on this : run her down.

January 2002: Thomas Junta, 270 pounds of pissed off truck driver, got mad at Michael Costin, 170 pounds of hockey coach.  Junta thought his kid was getting roughed up in a hockey game.  So he and Costin exchanged swings.  Then Junta left, then came back, pinned Costin to the floor, pummelled him, then bounced his head off the floor a few times for good measure.  Massive head trauma, severed artery, brain death, and he croaks.  Junta testified he only hit the guy three times, lightly.  The massive injuries, and several witnesses, say otherwise.  Killed a guy in front of his own kid and the victim's kid, then lied through his teeth.  The family mouthpiece said they would do everything they could to keep Junta out of jail, that it was ust a fight.  But y'know what?  If he only hit the guy three times easy, why was his head half caved in?

    Sure, you stick up for your kid, but he went frigging nuts.  He was sentenced to 6-10 years for invountary manslaughter, which itself is a joke. 

Bin Laden has shown no regard whatsoever for human life. He has even mowed down fellow Muslims when they've disagreed with him. He is the spoiled son of a rich Saudi family, and Saudi Arabia froze what funds he had there and tossed him out. He's wanted the world over.  And he must die for his crimes against humanity. Because he thinks the USA is somehow impure, even though we have fed and rescued and bailed out countless millions around the world, he is willing to kill as many people as he can in order to get us to leave friendly Muslim countries to which we've been invited.

Osama Bin Laden,  killer of children.

And here's some of his idiot cronies

These guys are a wreck. Both are considered complete and utter dorks, but that doesn't excuse them from being completely and utterly evil. Zacharias Moussaoui was supposedly the 20th hijacker on 9/11, the guy who raised suspicion everywhere he went, because he was the most incompentent of wannabee-terrorists. He was never able to blow himself up. As a result, he'll be sitting his ass in prison until he dies, and then some. At his trial, in the winter/spring of 2006, he openly mocked the victims of 9/11, laughing at them, and expressing his extreme pleasure at all pain and suffering casued by his cohorts. he will surely burn in hell.

Another terrorist failure/dork is Richard Reid, the would-be shoebomber. Completely inept, he built bombs in his shoes, then raised the suspicions of a flight attendant when he tried to light them in mid-air. He ended up biting her while he struggled with him, before he was pummeled senseless, then tied up, by other passengers on his flight. He too will burn in hell, in the Idiot Section.
 

December 2001: Marero McKinney, 31, of Chicago, was baby-sitting a friend's two year old boy while the dad ran to the store for ten minutes.  The boy's crying apparently interrupted a football game, so McKinney removed the boy's diaper and tossed him on a radiator. When the crying got worse, no kidding, McKinney pressed the boy harder against the radiator.  Realizing what an idiot he was, McKinney then poured peroxide on the boy's severe burns, then boiled a pot of water, figuring he'd say he accidentally spilled hot water on the child.  This story didn't fly, and the boy ended up n the hospital while McKinney went to jail, after first getting a swollen eye from the enraged dad.  As of New Years Eve 2001, the boy had undergone three skin grafts, and remained in critical condition.
    Was it murder?  No.  Was it cruel, inhuman torture?  Yes.  Should it be punishable by death according to the law?  Yes.  Unfortunately, this isn't the law.  A pity.
 
 

June 2001:  Timothy McVeigh at the end showed what a true coward he really was, by allowing his lawyers to finally lodge appeals.   As he got closer and closer to getting zotzed, and with Satan waiting with hot pincers and a steamy horse manure enema for the little creep, they used the excuse that the FBI was sitting on some documents to put off his rightful execution date.  The fact is, the documents, while possibly pointing to other conspirators, did nothing to cast doubt on McVeigh's own guilt.  He'd already admitted to all the horror he caused. 
 

In a book of extensive interviews (March 2001), McVeigh offered no condolences, no remorse whatsoever.  He said he had "no sympathy" for the people in Oklahoma City.  He admitted to the bombing, and also said that if he'd known of the day care center, he might have "paused," but referred to the nineteen dead children as "collateral damage."   Stalin and Hitler must be licking their lips even now, administering the big hot tar enema to this clown.

       Crap author Gore Vidal was invited to witness the execution, because McVeigh read a column of his and liked it.  Vidal idiotically lent credence to McVeigh's paranoid ramblings by saying that the two agreed on the "erosion of civil rights and the trampling of the Constitution." Good job, asshole, give the guy who murdered 168 people another pulpit.  Give him some credibility.  Way to go, idiot.  Vidal crapped out when the execution was rescheduled.  Good idea, dumbshit.
      No one can say that McVeigh was doing something heroic against an evil government.  Heroes don't run away from their crimes with their earplugs in, hauling ass toward their getaway car like a bank robber.
    By the way,  McVeigh, who's been on the "On His Way" list on the "Who's Burning in Hell" Page, has now been moved to the "Welcome Home" list.  Go check it out.

June 2001 : Juan Raul Garza ran a big pot ring in Texas.  He personally killed people, and arranged for others to be shot to death.  He was a paranoid pot boss, routinely roughing up or killing his own underlings, to keep them in line.  June 19, he was put down in Terre Haute, Indiana.  At least he expressed remorse at the end, unlike McVeigh, but if he was really that remorseful, would he have done all those terrible things in the first place, in the name of money?

May 2001: Dick Baumhammers, a non-practicing lawyer in Pittsburgh, shot his Jewish neighbor, two Hindus, two Asians, and a black man, and vandalized two synagogues, all on one busy afternoon in April 2000. This is an easy one.
 

March 2001 : Philip Workman, a 28-year-old drifter and drug addict, robbed a Memphis Wendy's.  In the ensuing gun battle with police, a Memphis police officer was killed.  Workman was found guilty of murder and sentenced to die.  His argument has been that his bullet didn't kill the officer; another officer's bullet was supposedly to blame.  Prosecutors contend that Workman and the dead officer were the only ones firing.  But y'know what?  It doesn't matter.  If Workman doesn't stage a stickup and fire at police, that officer doesn't die, no matter who fired the fatal shot.  It was his commission of a felony, and his firing at police (what did he EXPECT would happen if he shot at people?) that brought about the officer's death.   So either way, he's guilty of the murder.
 

December 2000: Leonard Peltier admits he was one of the party of Indian activists shooting at two FBI agents in June 1975.  He admits he was there, shooting.  He claims that he wasn't one of the three guys who later walked up to the wounded agents and shot them in the head.  The gunmen spent several minutes after the murders picking up shell casings.  At least 114 of the casings still at the scene came from Peltier's assault rifle.  At the time of the murders, Peltier was a federal fugitive wanted for the murder of an off-duty Milwaukee cop.  Peltier has changed his story several times over the years, most notably over "Mr. X," a figure Peltier can't or won't identify, and whom he says actually performed the killings. The fact is, Peltier was there, he admits shooting, it's obvious he did a lot of shooting, and he won't rat on his accomplices.  A bunch of doofus celebrities have asked for clemency for Peltier. He doesn't deserve it, and it would be a crime if Peltier got that clemency.
 

December 2000 : this guy won't be eligible for the Gurney (just doesn't have the same ring as The Chair), but he should be.  Marcus Henderson, 22, of Chicago, already a paroled child sex offender, forced his grandmother into a car at gunpoint, was captured on camera holding a gun to her head and making her withdraw money from a cash station, then hid behind her when confronted by police.  He used his grandmother as a shield.  Grandma suffered gunshot wounds, but lived.  Henderson has been charged with attempted murder of a police officer, aggravated battery, armed robbery, and kidnapping.
 

November 2000: Johnny Paul Penry was on parole for rape  in 1979 when he raped, stomped, and stabbed 22-year-old Pamela Moseley Carpenter.  His lawyers say he is retarded.  Somehow, he was smart enough to figure out how to rape and kill.  He's on Death Row in Texas.
 

October 2000: Scott Falkner of Westmont IL always did a lot of cocaine.  So in fall 1999 he did a blow, invited his neighbor over to supposedly help him move furniture, then stabbed that neighbor to death, then tried to rape the neighbor's wife.  She fought him off, he fled, and was later picked up in another state.  A forensic psychiatrist testified that coke and mental illness drove this creep over the edge.  SO..... you can plead temporary insanity, even if your own drug abuse contributed to it?  Do something stupid, and it provides an alibi when you do something else stupid? I don't think so. To the chair, son, to the chair.
 

August 2000: Thomas Adams, who received probation just two months ago for driving without a license, allegedly got drunk, stole a van, and plowed into another van, killing a set of parents and a set of grandparents, leaving two young children orphaned.  He faces four counts of reckless homicide and possessoin of a stolen vehicle.  If convicted, he should be sent straight to hell.
 

July 2000 : The Vatican has finally released the Third Secret of Fatima, which they think foretold the attempted assassination of the Pope in 1981.  That idiot would-be killer, Mehmet Ali Agca, now says he wasn't really to blame, he was just a pawn of God's, as evidenced by the Secret.   He also says he could be just as holy a man as the Pope, and that he would become "a man of the cloth" if he were released.  I have a better idea.  Shoot him.  I'll bet Charlton Heston would do it.

Oh, but the Italians ARE pardoning him.  So now Agca will start serving time for killing a journalist back home in Turkey in 1978.  He still blames Fatima, the KGB, and countless others for his shooting of the Pope.  Everybody but himself.

July 2000 Update: Now this stupid bastard Agca says the Vatican is the "enemy of God and humanity," and says he is launching "a cultural war" against the Vatican itself.  He also now implores the Pope to resign and return to Poland, before the Vatican, which Agca says is the real source of the attempted assassination, kills him. Agca is now serving a ten-year sentence for a series of 1979 robberies.  He has a history of outbursts in court, once proclaiming himself to be Jesus Christ.

June 2000: Trucker Richard Gancarz of Illinois has a 20-year history of speeding fines, reckless driving, driving on suspended licenses, trying to hand a cop his brother's license, DUI's, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, open alcohol in the car, driving with the wrong plates, skiping court dates, and causing wrecks.  In 2000 alone, he ran his car off a highway ramp and hit a pole, declined the breath test, and had his license suspended.  His skipped the court date.  Before that suspension took hold, he got nailed for another speeding ticket.  After the suspension finally kicked in, he got nailed for driving while suspended, and for mariuana possession.  Those last two cases were still pending when he tried to blow through a yellow light, and killed a kid.  He's now charged with felony reckless homicide and aggravated DUI.  How about we save a lot of court costs and just back his own rig over him?

June 2000: Chicago.  Adriana Mejia wanted a baby so bad, she faked a pregnancy and told friends and family, including her husband, she was due any day.  Then she persuaded two men to murder a couple and steal their children, including a 2-month-old.  Her husband came home and was immediately suspicious when his idiot wife tried to convince him that the newborn was in fact hers, and that the other child, a 3-year old, belonged to a friend and that she was going to watch him for a while.  This month, the two murderers, Arturo DeLeon-Reyes and Gabriel Solache, were both found guilty of murder.  Throw all three in the hole.

June 2000: Robert Koppa seems to be quite the klutz.  He claims he's suffered brain injuries from falling off a motorcycle, playing basketball, and falling while putting up Christmas lights.  These injuries, he claims, are the reason he kidnapped a girl as she left her job at a Chicago shopping mall four years ago and sexually assaulted her.  He abducted her, bound her hands, covered her eyes, then drove her to a remote location, where he took advantage of her.  Must be quite a bump on his noggin.  He  also pleaded guilty to deviate sexual assault in 1976 and served only two years.  In February 1980, he killed a 15-year old girl.  He was linked to that murder while in prison for abducting a 21-year-old woman in April 1980.  He was on parole for that murder when he abducted the girl four years ago.  Well, I see only one way to silence those addled thoughts in his head, those evil things that keep creeping up on him.  The Chair.

May 2000: a jury correctly ignored the defense's lame claim of insanity, but certainly bought their admission that defendant Maturino Resendiz killed at least nine people, and found him guilty of murder.  The actual murder for which he was first convicted included beating, rape, and other nasty stuff.  This isn't insanity.  It was lust, and bloodlust, and opportunity.  He was sentenced to death.  Resendiz  rode the rails last year, killing and robbing and raping.  His wife turned in jewelry she believed to have been taken from one victim, linking him directly to the crimes. 

He was ultimately coaxed back from over the border by a Texas Ranger, who allegedly lied to him, saying he wouldn't receive the death penalty.  Resndiz pointed the man out in court and said, "The police officer lied under oath.  I don't think that's right."  Oh, gee whiz.  The first crime for which he's been convicted and sentenced to death was the rape and murder of a lady doctor, a woman with a husband and family.

March 2000: Detroit juries convicted four young men of various charges with relation to spiking the soft drinks served to three girls at a party.  They used the infamous date-rape drug GHB.  One girl apparently had no ill effects, but a second ended up briefly in a coma, and a third, a 15-year-old girl, DIED.  Erick Limmer, 26, was convicted of being an accessory to manslaughter, poisoning, delivery of marijuana, and possession of GHB.  Joshua Cole, 19, Daniel Brayman, 18, and Nicholas Holtschlag, 18, were found guilty of manslaughter and poisoning.  So these utter frigging losers, who apparently couldn't get chicks so they decided they needed to drug them, killed a girl, and luckily didn't kill more. Screw this fifteen years in the slammer  stuff, HANG THEM. 

February 2000: Douglas Florey of Illinois has a long, long history of traffic violations, including speeding, running lights and signs, reckless, driving under the influence, driving while suspended, and more speeding.  He had plenty of tickets last year alone.  So this month, he got booted from a Will County bar for being too drunk to begin with, got in his vehicle, hit the baretender's car in the parking lot, then got on Route 55 and immediately caused a chain of accidents.  Two dead, two others in comas.  He himself is in serious condition.  His license was suspended at the time of the accident.  Instead of a handful of years, or even the gurney, have the relatives of the victims pile into a mini-van and back over him.  Slowly.

August '99: the federal government  released a bunch of FALN terrorists from prison, provided they renounced the use of violence, and agreed to the standard terms of a federal parole.  They and their supporters refused at first to do so, saying that "these conditions are unacceptable."  They appeared to be looking for an outright parole.  Another genius fan of theirs said that agreeing to renounce violence would brand them as criminals.  Actually, amigos, I think blowing up all sorts of public buildings back in the 1970's branded you as criminals.

Seditious conspiracy, interstate transport of stolen cars, gun offenses, and armed robbery are all kinda nasty.  Six people died in various FALN bombings.

The really, really DUMB thing about all this is, they were fighting for independence for Puerto Rico.  Whaddaya know, late in 1998, in a non-binding referendum on the subject, less than three percent of the population there voted for independence.

Maybe Roland Cruz, infamous "innocent" who cooled off on Death Row for over a decade, wouldn't have spent so much of his time there if he hadn't spent so much time and effort lying to the authorities.   The many prosecutors and officials who were tried (and acquitted) of trying to railroad Cruz were rightfully found to have been doing their jobs.  Cruz wasn't exactly a choir boy when he was originally picked up for the rape and murder of a little girl.  And he didn't exactly help his own case when he continually fibbed to police in return for whatever he thought he could get out of it.  If he's truly innocent of any involvement, then it's a shame he spent so much time on Death Row.  But he primarily has only himself to blame.  He even admitted during the trial of the prosecutors that he was getting help for his incessant lying.  Too bad he didn't get that help sooner.

I wish the bleeding hearts would stop putting guys like this on display as a sign of a corrupt system.  While there have been totally innocent people tossed into dark places for the wrong reasons, too often the guys who are let out and then used as props for the anti-capital punishment groups are repeat offenders, and were picked up for their non-crimes in the first place because of previous murder convictions.   It's not good that these people are wrongly incarcerated.  But that doesn't make them altar boys now.

Kathleen Ann Soliah misspent some of her youth with the Symbionese Liberation Army, the lunatic terrorists who kidnapped Patty Hearst.  Soliah took part in a bank robbery in which Myrna Opsahl, a wife and mother of four, was fatally shot in the stomach with a shotgun.  Police say Soliah also later planted bombs, loaded with nails, under two police cars.  The fact that the bombs were discovered and disarmed before they killed anyone is no credit to Soliah.  She offered to turn herself in at one point, provided she didn't do any time.  In the meantime, she changed her name, moved to St. Paul MN, and became a wife and mother herself.

She was finally arrested, and many of her neighbors say it would be wrong to punish her after all this time. A state representative says "Any bad decision [Soliah] made in the 1970s was a momentary lapse in good judgment."  Well, Soliah was a 28-year-old college grad, and she was with the SLA for a year before she started planting bombs, so it's not like she was some teenage goofball who made a boo-boo on the spur of the moment.  She had more than enough time to decide that the people she hung out with were murderers and thieves.  To say that putting her away now would be wrong is wrong itself.  The only reason she's escaped justice is because she hid.  The woman killed in the bank is still dead, while Soliah has done no time, has gone unpunished, and arrogantly enough doesn't see why she should be punished.  It would be an injustice to Myrna Opsahl if Soliah got off scot-free.

December 2001: She's sent to jail.  She pleaded guilty, then tried to withdraw her plea.  Her lawyer claimed that he'd awakened with a case of "bad karma" and went back to bed the day he should have applied to withdraw.  Did she find this guy in California?  Apparently.

Eric Rudolph

Some cowardly scumbag sets off a bomb at an abortion clinic, and just about the time the authorities show up, he sets off another one, killing a police officer and tearing the living shit out of a woman. The surgery and rehab she's had to go through are horrendous. This idiot bombing asshole apparently disagrees with abortion enough to blow up other innocent people. The main suspect is also suspected in the Olympic bombing, which killed innocent people as well. In total, he has injured over 150 people. And there are redneck morons out there who've helped this bonehead, and who call him a hero. Eric Rudolph was finally found hiding out in the woods, like a common crook.  If he's guilty, he's no hero, he's a cowardly terrorist. Oh, and back in March '98, his brother Dan cut off his own hand, to protest something or other. So lunacy seems to run in the family.  Ah, but wait, it gets better.  It turns out that Rudolph made most of his living being a pot farmer.  A druggie.  And his beliefs against abortion only go as deep as not wanting white women to get abortions, since fewer white babies mean fewer future racists, since he's into the white power thing.  He's paranoid about Jews and blacks, apparently.  But of course, these domestic terrorist types aren't usually geniuses. March 2000, a couple of nitwits were nailed for firing into a command center for the search for Rudolph.  These clowns only understand violence.  Nice way to get across your pro-life message: with bombs and guns. Spring 2005: Rudolph finally copped a plea, admitting to numerous bombings. He admitted it proudly, in fact, nauseating the witnesses. He's nothing more than a killer. December 2006: This pussy asshole killer claims that the Supermax prison he's in is designed to drive him insane. He spends 23 hours a day in a tiny cell, doesn't get much exercise time, he says he's worried about getting diabetes. The correct opinion on this is, shut up and do your time, you murdering piece of shit. Suck it big-time.

Eric Rudolph, just another redneck killer.

Another counter-culture bonehead shows his true worth. Ira Einhorn, a self-styled hippie guru from another generation, bludgeoned his girlfriend to death, then stuffed her in a trunk in his closet. Neighbors noticed a smell and stains coming through their ceiling, called police, and found the girl's remains. Einhorn skipped off to France, where he lives with a wife and a ridiculous beard. After several years, the French have agreed to extradite him, with the provision he not get the death penalty if convicted. There is now a fear that he has another passport and will try disappearing again. If he's innocent, he should not be afraid to come back and face trial. But he's just another scumbag trying to escape justice.

July 2001: Those baguette-brains in the French courts finally decided to send Einhorn back to the USA to face the music.  Ever the coward, he sorta cut his own throat just before being interviewed, but only succeeded in slicing himself superficially, and still managed the interview.  He's back in Philly now.  We had to agree not to put him to death, but he does get the benefit of a retrial.

The first of three morons convicted in Jasper, Texas of dragging a black man to death was dumb enough not to cop a plea and beg, despite the virtual mountain of evidence against him. Then he tells somebody, after a speedy conviction, that he's sealed a place in history, he's willing to die for his racist beliefs, blah blah blah. May I please throw the switch?

Mumia, Mumia, you try to screw-mia
 

Killer on the street, bullshit artist in the can.

Mumia Abu-Jamal, born Wesley Cook, was driving a cab in Philadelphia one night, many years ago, when he came upon his brother, being arrested by a cop for driving the wrong way down a one-way street, with his lights off.  The cop ended up shot dead, with Mumia ending up a few feet away, wounded by the officer, with Mumia's gun also a few feet away, five rounds fired from it.  Mumia was wearing a shoulder holster, which was of course empty.  All the brother has ever said on the subject was, "I ain't got nothing to do with this."  Mumia spins a ridiculous story that another man killed the policeman, then fled.  But this doesn't explain Mumia's gun, his own wounds, or the fact that neither he nor his brother have ever explained these parts of the story.  He has somehow,  over the years, transformed himself into a "political prisoner." Utter nonsense. He's a common criminal and killer. His doofus followers have even harassed the widow of the officer he killed. 20/20 did a show in December '99 which absolutely pulled apart the "evidence" which pointed to Mumia's "innocence." Mumia's own brother has never said a word to clear Mumia.

Mumia has never come right out and said he didn't do it. He was found bleeding, shot by the dying cop, just a few feet away, wearing an empty holster. Was the empty holster a fashion statement? Unlikely. 

He has confessed his guilt to a half-dozen people over the years, including an anti-death penalty activist. Even one of his own lawyers called one defense story (that the cop was the victim of a hit by other cops) "patently outrageous."

So naturally a whole bunch of bleeding-heart nincompoops, most of whom obviously haven't read the transcripts, protest on his behalf.  Maybe before they protest any more, they should ask their jailed icon exactly what DID happen that night.  Mark Taylor, a Princeton professor and founder of Academics for Mumia Abu-Jamal explains: "Mumia must be very careful about the context in which he makes any disclosures .... It's a risk-laden venture."  HUH?  This guy's a professor? Of course it's risk-laden.  Mumia's only recourse is to finally say, "It's all a bunch of bullshit, I shot the guy.  There's no conspiracy, there's no political prisoner thing going on here, I simply shot the guy." All these pinheads who protest for him have been suckered. Pick a worthy cause, why don'tcha?

For the true facts on this case, check out the following objective sites:

http://www.danielfaulkner.com/webinfo.html,
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/issues/00/02.10/view.quinn.html,
http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2001/sept_2001_2.html,
http://www.rightturns.com/columnists/guest/aei/df20020101.htm
http://www.boundless.org/2001/features/a0000540.html

The Arab "mastermind" and driver convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case said he thought he was only "delivering shampoo" to the building. In other words, he admits he drove the van to the Trade Center. Ah, yes, then he stashed the van in the parking garage and hauled ass outta there while whoever was expecting the shampoo could go break into the van and retrieve it. While the driver himself was safely at a distance when the shampoo went off. Ah, yes.

A kid, Luke Woodham, walks into his high school, shoots two girls to death after first stabbing his mother fatally. He and his lawyers say he was picked on, he was fatherless, he was influenced by an older kid who led satanic rituals and suggested he start shooting. But the older guy, who apparently conspired with a whole bunch of troubled youths to commit various crimes, pleaded innocent to being an accessory before the fact. The actual shooter also pleaded innocent. The rest of the idiots pleaded innocent. So three people are dead, but nobody's responsible. Meaning, they should all be herded into the same cell in the county jail near Pearl, Mississippi, then somebody with a ski mask and a pump shotgun should walk in and mow them all down, and when they ask the sheriff about it, he should say, "Hell, now, how did that happen?"

Young ones in the system

It's an ugly subject, young people who commit adult crimes. Like murder. At some point, you ARE responsible for your actions. When you're seven or eight, you know right from wrong. By the time you're a teen, you definitely know killing people is bad. If they're considered too young for the ultimate punishment, they have to go away for a long, long time, for lotsa reasons. 

• There must be justice for the victims. 
• There must be a moral to the story: you commit a crime, you get punished. 
• You have to go someplace quiet while they figure out where all the bad wiring is.
• You have to get the hell away from your parents, who obviously did a lousy job.

May 2005: Christopher Scamahorn, 14, and Jeffery Spurgeon, 18, confessed to beating to death a 53-year-old homeless man victim with their fists and sticks, and kicking him. They said they attacked the victim "for fun" and "to have something to do." Haught said. They went back to the scene three times after the original attack, to beat him some more.
Don't tell me that the younger kid didn't know what he was doing, or was just following the lead of the older idiot. When you're fourteen, you KNOW that committing such an act is evil, that it can kill people, that it's WRONG.

May 2005: Lionel Tate, 18, is back in jail after trying to rob a pizza delivery guy at gunpoint. Tate was on probation for having killed six-year-old Tiffany Eunick when he was twelve. Tate first claimed Tiffany was hurt during horseplay, saying he was imitating wrestling moves he saw on television. Later he changed his story and said he jumped on her from a staircase. He was 160 pounds, and Tiffany was 50 pounds. She ended up with a fractured skull, ruptured kidney, broken rib and 32 other injuries. If he was only twelve, then he was the dumbest damn twelve-year-old in the world.
In any case, this guy is seriously wacked, and needs to go away for a long, long time.
 

May 2001: Nathaniel Brazill, 13, got suspended from his Florida school for throwing a water balloon.  He went home, then rode back to school on his bike with a gun, and wanted to talk to a couple of girls in his class.  The teacher of that class didn't want to let him in, so Brazill pulled out the gun and pointed it at the teacher.  A few seconds later, he shot the teacher dead.  He claims now that it was an accident, his finger "accidentally pulled the trigger," that he thought the safety was on, etc.  The boy, now 14, is facing life in prison.   Don't tell me that when you pull out a gun and shoot somebody, it was just an accident.  And don't tell me that a 13-year-old doesn't understand that when you die, you don't come back.

Spring 2005:  A 13-year-old California boy pleaded not guilty to murder charges, after getting in a dispute with another boy in a snack line following a Little League game. He beat the other kid to death with a baseball bat. He is described as well liked. Yeah, well, that doesn't mean much now, does it?