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T.J. Lane Life Sentence

Fisher said:
He was just misunderstood; it is all the rich white republicans' fault---:roll:
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Give the school yard partisan taunting a ****ing rest. This thread has nothing to do with partisanship.
 
calamity said:
I believe him.

Now, we need to execute him.
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I like the life thing. So all through the life of the families, they can always at least try to get some answers should they feel the need to.
 
Mathematician said:
I have a better question. What is the motivation for those who oppose the death penalty to keep this piece of **** alive for decades and waste so much money?
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The opposition comes from likelihood of people who aren't sick ****s likes this one who are innocent of the crime they were accused of being killed by the state instead of the person who actually committed the capital offense.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Put him in a cell with a sex starved lifer named Butch McDick or some such.
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"Sup newbie... I'm Dick McCock. They call me Beef. Whaddaya in for?"
 
poweRob said:
Solitary? General population baby!
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yeah if the government won't give him a lethal injection maybe some prisoners will (Anally injected Death Sentence)
 
samsmart said:
The opposition comes from likelihood of people who aren't sick ****s likes this one who are innocent of the crime they were accused of being killed by the state instead of the person who actually committed the capital offense.
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It seems implicit in your post that you believe he deserves to die. However, I usually get the excuse from those against capital punishment that "we can't do it because we don't know where to draw the line." I'd say cases like this or James Holmes are where you don't need to waste any time going to instant replay, because it's clear the line was crossed.
 
Mathematician said:
It seems implicit in your post that you believe he deserves to die. However, I usually get the excuse from those against capital punishment that "we can't do it because we don't know where to draw the line." I'd say cases like this or James Holmes are where you don't need to waste any time going to instant replay, because it's clear the line was crossed.
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i'd rather have him spend 50 years worrying who might shank him or bend him over a bunk bed than get a quick clean death
 
Mathematician said:
It seems implicit in your post that you believe he deserves to die. However, I usually get the excuse from those against capital punishment that "we can't do it because we don't know where to draw the line." I'd say cases like this or James Holmes are where you don't need to waste any time going to instant replay, because it's clear the line was crossed.
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That may be the case. And while I don't have the statistics for it, there are too many cases where it isn't cut and dry as to the guilt of the accused.

And so I'd rather have this sick **** stay alive and in jail if it will also mean that an innocent man who was wrongly accused and wrong convicted isn't killed by the state.
 
TurtleDude said:
i'd rather have him spend 50 years worrying who might shank him or bend him over a bunk bed than get a quick clean death
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Then put it on pay-per-view to try and offset the cost of feeding him.
 
Mathematician said:
Then put it on pay-per-view to try and offset the cost of feeding him.
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where's John Holmes when we need him? he'd be perfect-he had aids and was hung like a race horse
 
poweRob said:
The first thing I thought of about it when I watched it was "that was rehearsed." He's got nothing and he knows it. No angle, no future... so I think he rehearsed what he thought would be the biggest F/U he could come up with... just like a child would. He caught a ration of **** from the family members just before that so that was his big childish... "well, well.... OH YEAH?" moment.
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Yeah, that's exactly what it looked like. You could tell that he had rehearsed it and that, in the moment, he got nervous like a kid and just mumbled it all out and looked stupid. It's just weird to see such childlike immaturity displayed by someone who did something so dark with such adult consequences.
 
poweRob said:
Solitary? General population baby!
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In this day and age his anus might already be the size of a silver dollar already.So general population may not be a real punishment to him.
 
grip said:
You're the only one that picked up on his demeanor as immature and purely unrealistic. I don't think he has the sense to even fully realize yet what he's done but he will.
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Yeah, I'm curious to see him in 10-20 years. I don't know if he'll have any regret and sympathy, but I suspect he'll have a different perspective on the meaning of his actions.
 
The kid is small and very young. Up to this point (correct me if I am wrong TD) he has spent his incarceration in county or city lockup. Now that he has been convicted he has probably just within days entered into the state penal system. It is not same, same jail. A young boy in the big house? They are going to be on him like white on rice.
 
Risky Thicket said:
The kid is small and very young. Up to this point (correct me if I am wrong TD) he has spent his incarceration in county or city lockup. Now that he has been convicted he has probably just within days entered into the state penal system. It is not same, same jail. A young boy in the big house? They are going to be on him like white on rice.
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I'd pay to see how big his eyes get if he were inducted like Shawshank induction day.
 
Mathematician said:
It seems implicit in your post that you believe he deserves to die. However, I usually get the excuse from those against capital punishment that "we can't do it because we don't know where to draw the line." I'd say cases like this or James Holmes are where you don't need to waste any time going to instant replay, because it's clear the line was crossed.
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That's the thing about capital punishment, consider this guy, caught virtually red handed and pled guilty, therefore there was no trial. In many cases, a guy who was so dead to rights guilty in a death penalty state would plead out in exchange for a life sentence. So who is going to trial? Many guilty people will absolutely plead not guilty and go to trial, but who else will plead not guilty? People who are not guilty, of course. And of the people who are not guilty, many will be found not guilty, but others will be found guilty. Some innocents will be found guilty because of bad luck and circumstances, some because of poor representation, some because of official corruption.

I have no moral opposition to killing people who kill, but my opposition to killing an innocent is greater than my desire to see the guilty killed. My acceptance level for killing innocents in order to insure the guilty are killed is zero. So until or unless we can come up with a system with zero defects, I will have to oppose the death penalty.

As to the argument (from other posts) that keeping the guilty alive is too expensive, I would have to point out that the cost of a capital trial, including mandatory appeals, cost far more than keeping a person incarcerated for 100 years.

Vengeance ain't cheap.
 
hope he lives to minimally 85 so that he suffers as much loss of freedom as is humanly possible.
 
CaptinSarcastic said:
That's the thing about capital punishment, consider this guy, caught virtually red handed and pled guilty, therefore there was no trial. In many cases, a guy who was so dead to rights guilty in a death penalty state would plead out in exchange for a life sentence. So who is going to trial? Many guilty people will absolutely plead not guilty and go to trial, but who else will plead not guilty? People who are not guilty, of course. And of the people who are not guilty, many will be found not guilty, but others will be found guilty. Some innocents will be found guilty because of bad luck and circumstances, some because of poor representation, some because of official corruption.

I have no moral opposition to killing people who kill, but my opposition to killing an innocent is greater than my desire to see the guilty killed. My acceptance level for killing innocents in order to insure the guilty are killed is zero. So until or unless we can come up with a system with zero defects, I will have to oppose the death penalty.

As to the argument (from other posts) that keeping the guilty alive is too expensive, I would have to point out that the cost of a capital trial, including mandatory appeals, cost far more than keeping a person incarcerated for 100 years.

Vengeance ain't cheap.
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Well said. Bravo!
 
Lutherf said:
I hate the idea of taxpayers having to support this turd for the rest of his life, may it me mercilessly short.
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Funny, that people think that executing is cheaper than imprisonment.
 
poweRob said:
T.J. Lane Life Sentence: Chardon High School Shooter Appears In Court Wearing 'KILLER' T-Shirt

T.J. Lane, who appeared in court Tuesday morning wearing a t-shirt with the word "KILLER" in marker across his chest, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of three teenagers at an Ohio high school.

Going against the recommendation of his counsel, Lane addressed the courtroom before learning his fate. He smiled periodically and showed little remorse for his actions.​

After shooting three kids to death and paralyzing another at a school in Ohio last year, he will never see freedom again. Not only that, he just turned 18 meaning this tiny little bitch is going to men's prision, not juvy... where they don't take very kindly to others in there who assaulted children.

What's further appalling is after he heard from his victims' families, he made a comment back to them...

"This hand that pulled the trigger that killed your sons now masturbates to the memory. F--- all of you."


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Man I feel just awful for those families.
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A lot wonder "why" that kid was allowed to display that shirt, you can bet two things 1) the kid wanted to (and he had every right to), and 2) the prosecution wanted him to so he could bury his ass (that or appear insane).

Everyone got what they wanted here..
 
Peter King said:
Funny, that people think that executing is cheaper than imprisonment.
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Yes, and worse, when death penalty advocates learn how expensive it is to process someone through the entire capital punishment process, they argue it should be quicker and cheaper.

So what's THAT going to do to the number of innocents who get fried, injected, gassed, or otherwise terminated?

One can call themselves a conservative by supporting the death penalty but they certainly can't call themselves fiscal conservatives.
 
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Peter King said:
Funny, that people think that executing is cheaper than imprisonment.
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Really?

I think some socialists would kill me for being a capitalist. I think some pro-choice groups would murder me for loving life..

Some of these political gangs will take a life to spare a life...

So this issue is not as cut and dry as it seems...

If you want to call bull**** on that I have a name - "Che" Ernesto Guevara - yeah that killer that the peace loving dope-heads run around with on their shirts or tatted on their bodies.
 
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