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regarding the suspect:
Sanders was convicted last year of a felony DUI, said Grace Simmons Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
He was later released from prison and is currently on probation.
Sanders was also convicted of armed robbery in Holmes County, sentenced in 1986 and served six years, Fisher said.
Doesn't seem to have been much politically driven. Sanders poses quite a challenge for DU-folk who reflexively conjured up and blamed right-wing death squads. DU-folks' reflex, in the face of a disappointment like this one, is to flip their script and start blaming the victim(s). They've pretty much blocked that avenue by praising the nuns' work. My guess is that they'll go silent on this murder, and come out in full hysterical speculative cry when the next such murder happens (and be disappointed again, and again, and again, and ........).
I'm, obviously, "right-wing" and a Protestant. There are areas of Catholic teaching with which I disagree. But I know there are true Christian believers who are Catholics, and I regard them as my brothers and sisters in Christ. That said, f444 is correct in saying that there are Protestants who regard Catholics, as a whole, as non-Christians. A very prominent one, Jack T. Chick, comes quickly to mind. But killing a nun? No.