On Tue 24 Jun 2003 11:00:13a, "Ιdouard Dugas" <sympatico.ca@edugas>
wrote in news:8IZJa.2344$Fe3.433599@news20.bellglobal.com:
You see, everyone...EVERYONE... in Canada is considered innocent
until proven guilty AND everyone... EVERYONE... is entitled to a
fair trial. If necessary, to avoid jury "conatamination" by an
overzealous sensationalist media and a misinformed public, I feel a
judge is perfectly justified to clamp down and avoid public
lynchings.
We don't rush people to death row in Canada. Actually, we have no
barbaric death row at all. We still have some respect for humanity
and believe a fair trial is more important than a quick execution.
Define 'quick execution'.
Thousands of innocent adults and children have died because of the
wanton, brutal, cruel, heinous and murderous acts of the inmates
currently on death row. It is often said that murderers are the
criminals least likely to repeat their crimes. Does that statistic
matter if you become the victim of one who bucks the trend?
Murders that could have been prevented by Capital Punishment:
Some 80 years ago, Charles Fitzgerald killed a deputy sheriff and
was given a 100-year prison sentence as a result. He was released
after serving just 11 years, and in 1926 murdered a California
policeman. He was given "life" for that killing, but was paroled in
1971.
In 1931, "Gypsy" Bob Harper, who had been convicted of murder,
escaped from a Michigan prison and killed two persons. After being
recaptured, he then killed the prison warden and his deputy.
In 1936, former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported the case of a
Florida prisoner who committed two murders, received clemency for
each, and then murdered twice more. On March 17, 1971 Hoover told a
congressional subcommittee that 19 of the killers responsible for the
murder of policemen during the 1960s had been previously convicted of
murder.
In 1951, Joseph Taborsky was sentenced to death in Connecticut for
murder, but was freed when the courts ruled that the chief witness
against him (his brother) had been mentally incompetent to testify. In
1957, Taborsky was found guilty for another murder, for which he was
electrocuted in May 1960. Before his execution, he confessed to the
1951 murder.
In 1952, Allen Pruitt was arrested for the knife slaying of a
newsstand operator and sentenced to life in prison. In 1965, he was
charged with fatally stabbing a prison doctor and an assistant prison
superintendent, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. In
1968, his 1952 conviction was overturned on a technicality by the
Virginia Supreme Court. He was re-tried, again found guilty, but given
a 20-year sentence instead of life. Since he had already served 18
years, and had some time off for "good behavior," he was released. On
December 31, 1971 he was arrested and charged in the murder of two men
in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
In 1957, Richard Biegenwald murdered a store owner during a robbery
in New Jersey. He was convicted, but given a life sentence rather than
death. After serving 17 years, he was paroled. He violated his parole,
was returned to prison, but was again paroled in 1980, after which he
shot and killed an 18-year-old Asbury Park, New Jersey girl. He also
killed three other 17-year-old New Jersey girls and a 34-year-old man.
A man convicted of murder in Oklahoma pleaded with the judge and
jury to impose the death sentence, but was given life instead. He
later killed a fellow inmate and was executed for the second killing
in 1966.
In 1972, Arthur James Julius was convicted of murder and sentenced
to life in prison. In 1978, he was given a brief leave from prison,
during which he raped and murdered a cousin. He was sentenced to death
for that crime and was executed on November 17, 1989.
In 1976, Jimmy Lee Gray (who was free on parole from an Arizona
conviction for killing a 16-year-old high school girl) kidnapped,
sodomized, and suffocated a three-year-old Mississippi girl. He was
executed for that second killing on September 2, 1983.
Also in 1976, Timothy Charles Palmes was on probation for an earlier
manslaughter conviction when he and two accomplices robbed and
brutally murdered a Florida furniture store owner. Palmes was executed
for the killing on November 8, 1984. An accomplice, Ronald Straight,
was executed on May 20, 1986. (The other accomplice, a woman, was
granted immunity for testifying for the prosecution.)
In 1978, Wayne Robert Felde, while being taken to jail in handcuffs,
pulled a gun hidden in his pants and killed a policeman. At the time,
he was a fugitive from a work release program in Maryland, where he
had been convicted of manslaughter.
In 1979, Donald Dillbeck was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in
prison for murdering a Florida sheriffs deputy. In 1983, he tried to
escape. In January of this year he was transferred to a
minimum-security facility. On June 22nd, he walked away from a
ten-inmate crew catering a school banquet. Two days later, he was
arrested and charged with stabbing a woman to death at a Tallahassee
shopping mall.
In 1981, author Norman Mailer and many other New York literati
embraced convicted killer Jack Henry Abbott (who had murdered a fellow
prison inmate) and succeeded in having him released early from a Utah
prison. On July 18, 1981 (six-weeks after his release), Abbott stabbed
actor Richard Adan to death in New York. He was convicted of
manslaughter and received a 15-year-to-life sentence. Mrs. Adan sued
Abbott for her husband's wrongful death and her pain and suffering. On
June 15, 1990, a jury awarded her nearly $7.6 million.
On October 22, 1983 at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois,
two prison guards were murdered in two separate instances by inmates
who were both serving life terms for previously murdering inmates. On
November 9, 1983 Associate U.S. Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen told
a Senate subcommittee that it is impossible to punish or even deter
such prison murders because, without a death sentence, a violent
life-termer has free rein "to continue to murder as opportunity and
his perverse motives dictate."
On December 7, 1984 Benny Lee Chaffin kidnapped, raped, and murdered
a 9-year-old Springfield, Oregon girl. He had been convicted of murder
once before in Texas, but not executed. Incredibly, the same jury that
convicted him for killing the young girl refused to sentence him to
death because two of the 12 jurors said they could not determine
whether or not he would be a future threat to society!
Thomas Eugene Creech, who had been convicted of three murders and
had claimed a role in more than 40 killings in 13 states as a paid
killer for a motorcycle gang, killed a fellow prison inmate in 1981
and was sentenced to death. In 1986 his execution was stayed by a
federal judge and has yet to be carried out.
When he was 14, Dalton Prejean killed a taxi driver. When he was 17,
he gunned down a state trooper in Lafayette, Louisiana. Despite
protests from the American Civil Liberties Union and other
abolitionist groups, Prejean was executed for the second murder on May
18, 1990.
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