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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: LC EFA on January 22, 2009, 06:50:26 PM
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:02 PM
Original message
My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment.
I know a lot of you are for capital punishment. I understand, and I don't want to argue about it.
I just want you to know that a human being is being put to death right now, at this moment, by strangers who care nothing about him, strapped to a gurney in a Huntville, Texas prison.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4890987
Shame, That. :cheersmate:
Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:17 PM
Response to Reply #4
15. I write to death row prisoners.
I find a prisoner (usually online ads from other countries who are anti-capital punishment) who has no family that writes to him and I begin writing to him. I send him money several times a year, to make sure he has stamps, and other essentials. I find out what he's interested in, and ship him books and magazines. Sometimes, often, get him a newspaper subscription to his hometown. Just generally try to be a friend to someone who is friendless.
I don't "fall in love," and I let them know, at the outset, that that is not what this is all about. I try to be consistent in writing, so that they know that there is one person they can count on, to communicate with.
It's a heartbreaking task, to write to one of these prisoners until they die, but it is very necessary, I think.
If you wanted to help your time could be better spent with people who are a lot more deserving.
Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:09 PM
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7. I'm so sorry ... I'm against the death penalty ...
because it lowers US to a criminal level, in my humble opinion - not criminal in the legal sense, but in a psychological sense.
Peace be with you. Peace be with him.
Its all about the Feeeeelings.
Jokerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:09 PM
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8. Barbaric.
I hope someday to live in an enlightened, compassionate society.
This isn't it.
With rainbows, and fluffy little bunnies and Free Poniesâ„¢ for all !!
naaman fletcher (145 posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:20 PM
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16. I'm opposed to the death penalty..
because I don't trust the government (read the various books on the Death Penalty in Oklahoma, including Mark Furhman's).
But, I have no sympathy for your friend, or that he is being put to death "by strangers who care nothing about him".
He should have thought about that before he killed his step-mother and robbed her of her wedding ring.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-perkins_22met.ART.East.Edition1.4ee2f40.html
This is the only semi-valid argument in here.
Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:31 PM
Response to Reply #20
23.He claimed that he didn't do it.
And I'm not going to get into an arguement with you about his innocence or guilt here.
Judge clearly thought otherwise.
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I am sooooo proud to have NEVER begin a sentence with:
"My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment."
It isn't as bad as "my sister is getting treatment for the VD I gave her" but it is close.
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:31 PM
Response to Reply #20
23.He claimed that he didn't do it.
And I'm not going to get into an arguement with you about his innocence or guilt here.
Wait a sec...
There's a prisoner on death row (well, was) who claimed innocence? I'm shocked. Shocked! :whatever:
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Jokerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:09 PM
Response to Original message
8. Barbaric.
I hope someday to live in an enlightened, compassionate society.
This isn't it.
To live in an enlightened and compassionate society one must be enlightened and compassionate. A society is made up of people.
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:02 PM
Original message
My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment.
I know a lot of you are for capital punishment. I understand, and I don't want to argue about it.
I just want you to know that a human being is being put to death right now, at this moment, by strangers who care nothing about him, strapped to a gurney in a Huntville, Texas prison.
I can sleep peacefully tonight. Texas justice has once again been served up.
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I am sooooo proud to have NEVER begin a sentence with:
"My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment."
It isn't as bad as "my sister is getting treatment for the VD I gave her" but it is close.
H5
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H5
I can always count on you Carl.
And I am, at the moment, at equilibrium again :)
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I can always count on you Carl.
And I am, at the moment, at equilibrium again :)
I just put you one over, but for the "It isn't as bad as "my sister is getting treatment for the VD I gave her" but it is close" line. That's funny! :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao:
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:02 PM
Original message
My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment.
I know a lot of you are for capital punishment. I understand, and I don't want to argue about it.
I just want you to know that a human being is being put to death right now, at this moment, by strangers who care nothing about him, strapped to a gurney in a Huntville, Texas prison.
http://www.democraticunde...l&address=389x4890987
(http://n8ux.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/woot-copy.jpg)
Here's hoping they screw up and make it slow and painful.
You stupid c*nt.
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I can sleep peacefully tonight. Texas justice has once again been served up.
(http://www.frontrowking.com/images/ron%20white.jpg)
"In Texas, we have the death penalty and we use it. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back." - Ron White
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A friend? Didn't one of her "friends" get put to death a year or two ago? How many f'n death row inmates does this f'n moron know?
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IIRC, the primitive Th1onein's real name is Melanie and she popped into CU at one point. If she *really* wanted to do something that brought good to others, she'd be trying to help the families of the victims, too.
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This is the woman who stood on her dead nephews coffin and spun bouncies.
He was KIA in the early years of the Iraq war and she saddled up his body and rode it for all she was worth playing for outrage sympathy from the other DUchebags.
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I just want you to know that a human being is being put to death right now, at this moment, by strangers who care nothing about him, strapped to a gurney in a Huntville, Texas prison.
...As opposed to violently killing someone you know, oh like a family member perhaps? Because by golly he needed that ring more than she needed her life, right? No one gets to this point without going through the appeals process which is a hell of a lot more than his step-mother got. Well, unless he let her beg for her life before he killed her, I guess one could consider that an appeal...albeit without benefit of counsel.
Cindie
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...As opposed to violently killing someone you know, oh like a family member perhaps? Because by golly he needed that ring more than she needed her life, right? No one gets to this point without going through the appeals process which is a hell of a lot more than his step-mother got. Well, unless he let her beg for her life before he killed her, I guess one could consider that an appeal...albeit without benefit of counsel.
Cindie
There's a reason you have so many Hi5's, ma'am. Hi5. :bow:
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I am pro-death penalty. The only arguement that comes close to changing my mind is do I want government having that power?
Well the Supreme Court settled that, mostly, when it decreed that only a jury could give the death penalty.... I am right about that?
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^*$%&#)#@%*!!
Rot in hell melaine. Rot in hell you stupid bitch.
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I am pro-death penalty. The only arguement that comes close to changing my mind is do I want government having that power?
Well the Supreme Court settled that, mostly, when it decreed that only a jury could give the death penalty.... I am right about that?
Do you have a link to that SCOTUS ruling? I haven't found one.
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Good old Melanie "A murderers best friend" :whatever: Anybody else find it interesting that her pool of friends consist of people who are either dead or going to be in short order? Methinks Melanie has serious intimacy issues! :uhsure:
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God bless Texas.
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Anyone who claims that FR/CC/etc are conservative mirror images of DU/Kos/etc, consider the following:
--How many people do YOU know on death row?
--How many of them do you consider "friends"?
I rest my case.
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Good old Melanie "A murderers best friend" :whatever: Anybody else find it interesting that her pool of friends consist of people who are either dead or going to be in short order? Methinks Melanie has serious intimacy issues! :uhsure:
You know, of course everybody needs friends.
And offering the hand of friendship is mandated by God.
However, I don't think Melanie's hand is what such people need; there's others more mature, more stable, more unselfish and disinterested, more effective, who could do such people more good during their last days of life.
If I were a murderer, I'd sweat and cringe, if I knew my stoutest friend was a deeply-troubled, probably psychotic, undeniably hysterical, primitive.
I'd be sweating clams if I was leaving life, knowing this was the only "friend" I had.
It's obvious Melanie's into this thing merely for her own ego-gratification, and not for some unselfish purpose.
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I can always count on you Carl.
And I am, at the moment, at equilibrium again :)
bitchslapped for being tilted.
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How many f'n death row inmates does this f'n moron know?
One less.
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I have a friend who went to the death chamber here in Huntsville. As a matter of fact he goes several times a year and has no qualms about cashing the check they give him.
KC
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One less.
Hi 5. That answer entertained me.
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I can't help but ask.....does she have "mail sex" with her death row penpals?
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I can't help but ask.....does she have "mail sex" with her death row penpals?
Well, being as she is at the DUmp she is probably more into "femail sex".
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
KC
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:31 PM
Response to Reply #20
23.He claimed that he didn't do it.
And I'm not going to get into an arguement with you about his innocence or guilt here.
Melanie, I won't argue guilt or innocence with you. How about you give the whole story sometime though?
"Reginald Perkins has been connected by DNA evidence to at least 2 other murders since his conviction and sentence to death ..."
"In 1982 Reginald Perkins was convicted of rape of a minor, attempted rape and gross sexual imposition - the victims of these convictions were 2 12 year old girls"
"In 1999, an Ohio court found that Perkins was a sexual predator"
I don't really care at this point if he was guilty of THAT particular murder or not. He was scum and I'm glad he no longer breathes the same air I do.
KC
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Melanie, I won't argue guilt or innocence with you. How about you give the whole story sometime though?
"Reginald Perkins has been connected by DNA evidence to at least 2 other murders since his conviction and sentence to death ..."
"In 1982 Reginald Perkins was convicted of rape of a minor, attempted rape and gross sexual imposition - the victims of these convictions were 2 12 year old girls"
"In 1999, an Ohio court found that Perkins was a sexual predator"
I don't really care at this point if he was guilty of THAT particular murder or not. He was scum and I'm glad he no longer breathes the same air I do.
KC
But Texacon, he was SUCH a nice guy!
12:00 AM CST on Thursday, January 22, 2009
By DEBRA DENNIS / The Dallas Morning News
debdennis@dallasnews.com
Reginald Perkins embarked on a series of heinous crimes years before he brutally killed his stepmother and robbed her of her wedding ring in 2000, the crime for which he's sentenced to die today.
The 53-year-old Fort Worth man was in prison for five years, sitting on Texas' death row, when science linked him to the 1991 slayings of Hattie Wilson, 79, and her niece Shirley Douglas, 44. The women were found strangled inside their East Fort Worth apartment.
"He is very smart and very scary," said Fort Worth police Detective Manny Reyes, who visited Perkins on death row in October to obtain the DNA connecting the convicted murderer to the deaths of Wilson and Douglas.
Gertie Perkins, 64, was also strangled. Prosecutors say she was much more than a stepmother to the man convicted in her murder.
"He called her Mom," said Kevin Rousseau, an assistant district attorney in Tarrant County, who prosecuted Perkins. "He was her stepson, but she raised him. He spent a good part of his life growing up with her."
(last bold) See? He was a really, really nice guy.
To Th1onein , there is'nt a **** YOU big enough.
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Making a habit of befriending death row inmates just doesn't seem to me like a very wise hobby for a woman to be engaged in. Occasionally these people do get out, and she may find out just how innocent that person was NOT, when he shows up at her doorstep.
I'm sure there are some fine men in our VA hospitals who have no one to write to them, probably even victims of Chimpy McBushHitler you can comiserate with. Why don't you pick one of those honorable friendless persons, instead of a scum sucking POS child raper/murderer who doesn't deserve either friends, or the air that he breathes?
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Making a habit of befriending death row inmates just doesn't seem to me like a very wise hobby for a woman to be engaged in. Occasionally these people do get out, and she may find out just how innocent that person was NOT, when he shows up at her doorstep.
I'm sure there are some fine men in our VA hospitals who have no one to write to them, probably even victims of Chimpy McBushHitler you can comiserate with. Why don't you pick one of those honorable friendless persons, instead of a scum sucking POS child raper/murderer who doesn't deserve either friends, or the air that he breathes?
That was my point, too, a little earlier in this thread.
There seems something Freudianly unsettling in a woman going out of her way to target a certain group for "friends."
We all do that, to some degree--I hang with college graduates (any degrees), blue collars, and avoid the deaf--but I don't put a whole lot of time and energy into it.
If it happens, okay; if it doesn't happen, okay.
Essentially, we're all commanded by God to accept all who come our way.
We aren't supposed to pick-and-choose.
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Essentially, we're all commanded by God to accept all who come our way.
Agreed, if the plan is to save them before death. Hers is not. I'm very sure she has the syndrome (Stockholme) but I DOUBT that it's invountary.
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Agreed, if the plan is to save them before death. Hers is not. I'm very sure she has the syndrome (Stockholme) but I DOUBT that it's invountary.
Melanie goes out of her way to pick such people; it's not that she by chance runs into them.
That alone shows an unhealthy obsession.
And it's obvious her subconscious intention is simply to announce to the world, "Hey, look what a nice and virtuous and caring person I am," rather than to do anything for the guy.
That's very selfish and not mentally healthy.
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I can't help but ask.....does she have "mail sex" with her death row penpals?
That's EXACTLY it. I don't see her talking about penpal relationships with the women on death row. She's got some sort of fetish for condemned men...she probably has a misplaced messiah complex that she knows is doomed to fail, and she probably doesn't climax until the plungers are pushed in the execution chamber.
Melanie, you are a MESSED UP woman.
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But Texacon, he was SUCH a nice guy!
Well, he was real nice to her, but then she isn't a twelve-year-old girl, either.
:hammer:
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One less.
:lmao:
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Well, he was real nice to her, but then she isn't a twelve-year-old girl, either.
:hammer:
Or a middle aged woman or elderly woman apparently. It seems the only women safe from his wrath were in their 20's and 30's. Maybe he just hadn't gotten around to them before he was unceremoniously arrested and sentenced to death with such flimsy evidence as DNA to prove I'd actually killed people.
Cindie
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Jukin is smiling!
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Once again it shows that the DUmp is the home for the demented and devient.
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Do you have a link to that SCOTUS ruling? I haven't found one.
let me google a bit
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Do you have a link to that SCOTUS ruling? I haven't found one.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court Monday ruled 7-2 that it is unconstitutional for judges rather than juries to make findings of fact that result in a person being sentenced to death.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/24/scotus.executions/index.html
and here
W A S H I N G T O N -- The Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of dozens of convicted killers Monday, ruling that juries and not judges must make this life-or-death decision.
The 7-2 ruling affects the way death sentences are imposed in at least five states. The court made its ruling retroactive, meaning that more than 150 death sentences must be reconsidered.
http://www.prisonerlife.com/deathrow/deathrow14.cfm
I don't know anything about searching for the actual opinion
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I don't know anything about searching for the actual opinion
You did good anyway, though. Thank you!
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If you know how I guess you can the date and figure it out
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naaman fletcher (154 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jan-23-09 02:58 PM
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230. Do you ever write to the families of victims?
You know, the kids who don't have their moms or dads anymore because of people like your friend? Do you send them money to make sure they can buy a baseball mitt, or maybe basketball shoes?
Or you just care for murderers more?
lol :evillaugh:
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Zodiak Ironfist DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jan-22-09 07:47 PM
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32. A guy I went to high school with got the death penalty
He's dead.
Not saying he was my friend because he was older and popular, etc., but I did know him.
He was executed there in Texas.
Rumor has it that he was rail-roaded through the judicial system because of a local DA that wanted to cut his teeth on a murder case (I believe the victim was an old woman). In Texas (and especially in my home town), the story sounds somewhat plausible, but I really don't know much about the facts of the case. I just know he is dead and I knew him....really freaks me out sometimes remembering him in his football uniform with his arm around his high-school sweetheart.
You are a really, really good person for doing what you do. Blows me away.
I am against the death penalty across the board....even for *. Besides, I think that the idea of * being forced to work the fry machine at McDonalds is the best punishment I can think of for him. It would be his first manufacturing job!
WTF? ::)
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I think that the idea of * being forced to work the fry machine at McDonalds is the best punishment I can think of for him.
And after a few weeks when he owns McDonalds, what you gonna say?
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I think that the idea of * being forced to work the fry machine at McDonalds is the best punishment I can think of for him.
And after a few weeks when he owns McDonalds, what you gonna say?
BOYCOTT MCDONALD'S [and coincidently--but unmentioned--screw the working class trying to earn a wage there or eat-out with their families at a decent price]!!!
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I'd bet she is one of those weird chicks who carry on pen pal relationships with serial killers.
Won't be surprised to hear she marries some murderer in prison one day.
My guess is several, BC.
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I understand why some are anti-death penalty. I have my own wavering opinion on the death penalty.
But what I won't understand, is how someone becomes a regular pen pal with various death row inmates. That's just strange. Of all the people in the world that you could pen pal with, why the hell would you voluntarily choose them?
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Shame, That. :cheersmate:
If you wanted to help your time could be better spent with people who are a lot more deserving.
Its all about the Feeeeelings.
With rainbows, and fluffy little bunnies and Free Poniesâ„¢ for all !!
This is the only semi-valid argument in here.
Judge clearly thought otherwise.
He stopped being a human being when he took another persons life.
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I understand why some are anti-death penalty. I have my own wavering opinion on the death penalty.
But what I won't understand, is how someone becomes a regular pen pal with various death row inmates. That's just strange. Of all the people in the world that you could pen pal with, why the hell would you voluntarily choose them?
Pen pal? Heck women send these guys naked pictures and even MARRY them.
I am not sure why, but according to every expert I have heard/read this is only women who do this with male scum.
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I understand why some are anti-death penalty. I have my own wavering opinion on the death penalty.
But what I won't understand, is how someone becomes a regular pen pal with various death row inmates. That's just strange. Of all the people in the world that you could pen pal with, why the hell would you voluntarily choose them?
I'm sure that Freud would have an opinion on it.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court Monday ruled 7-2 that it is unconstitutional for judges rather than juries to make findings of fact that result in a person being sentenced to death.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/24/scotus.executions/index.html
and here
W A S H I N G T O N -- The Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of dozens of convicted killers Monday, ruling that juries and not judges must make this life-or-death decision.
The 7-2 ruling affects the way death sentences are imposed in at least five states. The court made its ruling retroactive, meaning that more than 150 death sentences must be reconsidered.
http://www.prisonerlife.com/deathrow/deathrow14.cfm
I don't know anything about searching for the actual opinion
You did good enough. Thanks.
Based on your research, I was able to find the actual case:
RING V. ARIZONA (01-488) 536 U.S. 584 (2002)
200 Ariz. 267, 25 P.3d 1139, reversed and remanded.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-488.ZS.html
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I'm sure that Freud would have an opinion on it.
Low self-esteem, ego gratification ("See?--I'm a good person; I befriend the friendless!"), the need to manipulate someone.
Those sorts of things.
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I have laughed my ass off reading all the way through this thread.
I've never had the stomach to read over on those libtarded sites.
I had no idea it could be this entertaining.
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I have laughed my ass off reading all the way through this thread.
I've never had the stomach to read over on those libtarded sites.
I had no idea it could be this entertaining.
It's like an ant farm.
But with more retard and drugs.
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It's like an ant farm.
But with more retard and drugs.
hi5 for the awesome analogy!
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You did good enough. Thanks.
Based on your research, I was able to find the actual case:
RING V. ARIZONA (01-488) 536 U.S. 584 (2002)
200 Ariz. 267, 25 P.3d 1139, reversed and remanded.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-488.ZS.html
For the record I think it would be more beneficial to get a Filipina pen pal
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Low self-esteem, ego gratification ("See?--I'm a good person; I befriend the friendless!"), the need to manipulate someone.
Those sorts of things.
I think it goes even further than that. I've never seen a hardened criminal that didn't have loads of self-esteem and a massive ego coupled with a complete entitlement mentality. On the other side of this paper relationship is someone whose self-esteem and ego depends on what others think. Whereas said death row dude has the balls to go out and take what he's entitled to, she can only whine and moan with other like-minded losers on a message board that's even ignored in their own party. I think it's hero worship.
Cindie