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malaise

(269,004 posts)
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 09:04 PM Jul 2019

Life in prison plus 419 years

for the Charlottesville murderer of Heather Heyer.
I hope white supremacists hear the news - proceed at your peril racists.

Rachel is giving the history

Here's a link
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/heather-heyer-james-fields-charlottesville-murderer-859182/

On Monday, James Fields, the neo-Nazi convicted in the death of Heather Heyer and the injury of multiple protesters during the 2017 Charlottesville rally, was sentenced in state court to life in prison, plus 419 years.

Fields, 22, was the man responsible for driving a car into a crowd of protesters during the white supremacist rally in 2017, injuring many and killing the 32-year-old Heyer. During trial, he admitted to intentionally driving his car into the crowd. In December 2018, he was convicted on first-degree murder charges for his role in Heyer’s death. He was also convicted of aggravated malicious wounding and leaving the scene of an accident.

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Life in prison plus 419 years (Original Post) malaise Jul 2019 OP
He's going to be really old when he gets out! redwitch Jul 2019 #1
He's coming out in a box malaise Jul 2019 #4
ass bdamomma Jul 2019 #2
If people are given a sentence of life plus some additional time, The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2019 #3
I hope so! CDerekGo Jul 2019 #5
Throwing their life away over bullshit propaganda. Initech Jul 2019 #6
Those 419 Days After Life are a Real Bitch Stallion Jul 2019 #7
Days or years? BootinUp Jul 2019 #8
well, with time out for good behavior..... dixiegrrrrl Jul 2019 #9
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Jul 2019 #13
That's 419 YEARS, not days... GReedDiamond Jul 2019 #10
The "Crying Nazi" Promises Revenge Over Conviction of Charlottesville Killer... GReedDiamond Jul 2019 #11
Th sooner the 'army of fanatics' die malaise Jul 2019 #14
Something's really wrong with humanity, if we can produce so many of these monsters lindysalsagal Jul 2019 #16
Didn't you know? PCIntern Jul 2019 #17
Good. Let this be a lesson to them. smirkymonkey Jul 2019 #12
make it a millenia for Trump and his enablers for the dead children at the border Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2019 #15
500 years will do fine malaise Jul 2019 #18
So sad all of the way around. SouthernProgressive Jul 2019 #19
It prays and preys n/t malaise Jul 2019 #20

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,693 posts)
3. If people are given a sentence of life plus some additional time,
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 09:08 PM
Jul 2019

when they die in prison do they bury them at the prison just so they can serve out their entire sentence symbolically?

Initech

(100,076 posts)
6. Throwing their life away over bullshit propaganda.
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 09:18 PM
Jul 2019

Trump and Putin's IRA have blood on their hands, and this definitely won't be the last either. Very fine people? We're not the ones driving cars into protestors.

GReedDiamond

(5,313 posts)
11. The "Crying Nazi" Promises Revenge Over Conviction of Charlottesville Killer...
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 09:59 PM
Jul 2019

...also from Rolling Stone, an article about another douchebag nazi incel asshole who vows revenge for the sentence the murdering coward Fields received:

From the article linked below:

...Cantwell claimed the conviction would create “an army of fanatics who are ready to die” and “drive us toward [Charlottesville and the left’s] complete and total destruction, as a matter of necessity for our very survival.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/chris-cantwell-charlottesville-reaction-766695/

malaise

(269,004 posts)
14. Th sooner the 'army of fanatics' die
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 05:47 AM
Jul 2019

the better or may be they can share cells with Fields for 419 years.

lindysalsagal

(20,686 posts)
16. Something's really wrong with humanity, if we can produce so many of these monsters
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 06:28 AM
Jul 2019

Go ahead, religious people: "There's a reason for everything" people. "It's god's will" people.

Tell me why your god would create such hateful beings, and so many of them.

The only reasonable answer is evolution: We're animals, and some of us aren't fully formed, or are fatally broken.

PCIntern

(25,549 posts)
17. Didn't you know?
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 06:34 AM
Jul 2019

God created these monsters to test our faith. Sort of like how he created carbon dating showing the Universe is older than 5000 years to test our faith.

On that last note, my aunt used to laugh and say that she had dresses in her closet that were older than 5000 years

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. Good. Let this be a lesson to them.
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 10:10 PM
Jul 2019

They think they can kill and get away with it because their man Trump will back them up.

Well good luck with that. Let's see how he has your back now.

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