That doesn't mean all lawyers are unethical enough to defend a caught-red-handed murderer -- but some are.
That quote is a perfect example of the loss of American values I am talking about.
No one is advocating lynching the bugger (not that I've seen anyway), they're simply looking forward to him getting punished. Why is wanting the guilty punished such a terrible thing in your eyes?
1 Reread the original posts.
2 The guy who took this childs life, assuming it is proved beyind a reasonable dobut that did so with the approrpiate mental culpability, inaccordance with well settled law, upon that conviction, has demonstrated that he is unfit to remain in society. Whether or not he is to pay the ultimate price is a difficult decision for 12 members of OUR community to make after they hear and consider, in their reasoned judgment, all of the facts and circumstances of the matter, none of which any of us will ever be privy too unless we sit there with them until the case is finished..
For the cries to come forth on this Board, again and again in this and other threads, to hang the criminal, burn him, shoot him rape him, torture him
"gimme five minutes with him", rip him to shreds and so on with all the glee involved in watching and inflicting pain is so tawdry and cheap in comaprison to the solem duty involved in bringing a measure of justice in this case and other that it beggars description.
And to raise those mob like animalistic cries makes us no better than the beasts we seek to keep away from our homes and families and desecrates the memories of this poor child.
And only a jury determines guilt on earth, not you or I. And only God makes the final call, and we aint him/her either.
And I aint never gonna shut up about it.
WildtakethehighroadAlaska
