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Boy Tied To Tree And Burned Alive On His Eighth Birthday Names His Attacker During ..

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Lutherf said:
Speaking of bad facts!!

The prosecution doesn't convict anybody in a criminal case. The Jury does that. It's the prosecution's job to present their case and based on nothing more than the extremely limited amount of evidence I was able to read in the story I can ABSOLUTELY see why the prosecutor would bring suit and, in fact, believe that they would be totally shirking their duties if they didn't.
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IF someone coached this kid directly or indirectly, I doubt it was the mailman.
 
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ttwtt78640 said:
I am not trying him, convicting him or sentencing him. The standard of proof is up to a jury, regardless of whether he is charged as a juvenile or adult. Your point of the only evidence being a deathbed confession is very unlikely to win a conviction, there must be more evidence than that to get a conviction. The article alone does not allow that determination. My point was that trying him as a juvenile now, is mostly an exercise in time wasting as any sentence is likely to be no more than he is serving/has served for his other crimes.
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I have an issue with capital punishment being carried out against someone for a crime committed when they were 13. I don't care if you treat them as an adult and lock them up forever--it is the zap zap chair that bothers me with people who were that young when they committed their crime, especially if the death did not occur until 13 years later. It feels like they are trying to do indirectly what they could not do directly--execute him for burning the kid at all.
 
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Fisher said:
IF someone coached this kid directly or indirectly, I doubt it was the mailman.
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IF someone coached the kid then that's the jury's determination to make and there is, with the evidence presented here, no good reason to presume that was the case.
 
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Fisher said:
I have an issue with capital punishment being carried out against someone for a crime committed when they were 13. I don't care if you treat them as an adult and lock them up forever--it is the zap zap chair that bothers me with people who were that young when they committed their crime, especially if the death did not occur until 13 years later. It feels like they are trying to do indirectly what they could not do directly--execute him for burning the kid at all.
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If you are old enough to rape, then decide to terrorize the victim/witness to cover your tracks then you deserve to die. Don't mess with Texas, or its justice. If the vicitm is forced to suffer terribly and then eventually dies 13 years later (from direct result of that trauma) that does not sound like the sob story that I'd use to try to convince a jury to be lenient. Feel free to act as his character witness, become his pen pal and picket the execution but let Texas justice run its course.
 
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ttwtt78640 said:
If you are old enough to rape, then decide to terrorize the victim/witness to cover your tracks then you deserve to die. Don't mess with Texas, or its justice. If the vicitm is forced to suffer terribly and then eventually dies 13 years later (from direct result of that trauma) that does not sound like the sob story that I'd use to try to convince a jury to be lenient. Feel free to act as his character witness, become his pen pal and picket the execution but let Texas justice run its course.
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No need. There will be people lining up to represent him for free on his appeal--some people do put the integrity of the process above the individual outcomes. Ask some of the black lawyers who represent the Klan why they do it. I'll give you a hint--it ain't for the money or the company.
 
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Torture ought to be a capital offense.

Fisher said:
I have an issue with capital punishment being carried out against someone for a crime committed when they were 13. I don't care if you treat them as an adult and lock them up forever--it is the zap zap chair that bothers me with people who were that young when they committed their crime, especially if the death did not occur until 13 years later. It feels like they are trying to do indirectly what they could not do directly--execute him for burning the kid at all.
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Peter Grimm said:
Torture ought to be a capital offense.
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I don't disagree but that alone is not.
 
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