Later "Tookie"

My father was a sheriff's deputy and was killed responding to an armed robbery call; the man who killed him is currently STILL sitting in jail in Broward county...awaiting execution.

If anyone has a right to be pro-execution, I think I do...
The man who killed my father has been implicated in other severe criminality...
He does not deserve to walk free ever again.
I also do not believe he deserves to die.

It will not bring my father back.
It will only cause more grief, not diminish the grief that is already there.

I have read this entire thread.
I have yet to see a single pro-execution thread that outlines exactly what benefit there is to execution, save to fulfill a vengenance need.

Anyone care to name a few?
REAL benefits.
Dollars and cents.
Improvement of the society.
Anything.

Please.

That is a load of bullshit. No one cares about some loser that was locked up before most of the current gangters were even born. These fucking animals prey on communities and have ruined many once vibrant communities. Gangs move drugs. This is a nation of drug addicts. Gangs are not going away. End of story.


This dude killed 4 people, probably a lot more. We all know they 1/2 ass look when it is black on black crime. Another dead negro is the least of the LAPD's concerns, unless they killed him and it were caught on tape.


I am not for the death penalty, but this guy makes is hardly the person I would want to be the posterchild for ending the death penalty. We have 13 excellent examples in Illinois. Where were the stars for the really innocent people? Ohh right, they weren't flashy enough for Hollywood, just innocent.


When you don't have anything to do but turn good because you are locked in a cell and being good is your only chance at anything, wouldn't you be good too?


And to the people who called it racism, it isn't racism if his black ass did it.


I guess everyone is forgetting he was still running the gang from within the prision just like Larry Hoover. How many of you gang knowledge all stars know who Larry Hoover is?

I know... I know!
But I don't count, since I am a cop's kid.

Did you bother to read my post? I never said Tookie was innocent. I said the "take 'em out and shoot 'em" approach is not a fair approach - it brings up the "what if the person is innocent" question. I am personally against the death penalty. My own opinion, you don't have to like my opinion, I am not looking for anyone to argue with me about it, you won't be changing my mind about it.