Ohio teen becomes youngest inmate on state's death row

[theHandpuppet]

The crime was horrible but this is not the way. We have to be better people and a better society than this.

The Cincinnati Enquirer
Judge sentences Warren County teen to death
Rachel Richardson

Warren County teenager who killed a childhood friend and dumped his body in Preble County will become Ohio's youngest inmate on death row after a judge Thursday sentenced him to death.

Warren County Common Pleas Court Judge Donald Oda sentenced Austin Myers, 19, in the Jan. 28 robbery and murder of 18-year-old Justin Back, a 2013 Waynesville High School graduate who was set to enter the U.S. Navy the week after his death.

"You have no respect for death," Oda told Myers, who displayed no emotion upon the reading of the sentence.

A Warren County jury last week recommended Myers be put to death after convicting him of aggravated murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, grand theft of a firearm, tampering with evidence, safe cracking and abuse of a corpse....

MORE at http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/courts/2014/10/16/judge-sentences-warren-co-teen-to-death/17356109/

[sendero]

1. At 19 he is an adult..

... and it is too bad that he threw his life away.

[theHandpuppet]

5. So when do Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Powell go on trial for murder?

At least this kid has expressed something they have not: remorse. Isn't their death toll up to about 500,000 now?

[sendero]

8. Great..

.... non sequitur. So since high level government officials did things we think are criminal, with the consent of most of the country at the time BTW, we should be able to murder our friends for money with no consequence.

I have to self edit the rest lest my post lest it just get removed.

[theHandpuppet]

10. No...

There should be consequences for everyone. That is the point.

[B Calm]

2. I would have said he had no respect for life, not death. .

[belzabubba333]

3. what a monster and at 19 -

the culture of murder

[NaturalHigh]

4. I'm okay with life without parole.

As I've stated many times, I'm personally ambivalent about the death penalty, but I could never vote to execute anyone.

[theHandpuppet]

6. I've waffled on this issue for many years now

But speaking only for myself, I came to the realization that supporting the death penalty is revenge-motivated. It's really tough in cases such as these and I still struggle.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. I'm against the death penalty, but I guess he

deserves it as much as anyone else on death row. He was an adult when he committed the crime, after all. I think that a life sentence should be the harshest sentence meted out, but he committed murder and all the rest of those crimes in a state with the death penalty. Just because I'm against the death penalty doesn't mean I don't see the reason for it in situations like this. This was a cold-blooded, senseless murder.

[sendero]

9. There is ZERO.

... doubt about the facts of the case. Hope he enjoys the few years he has left sitting in a cell and ruminating over why he is there.