Reply #6: In some few cases [View All]

[Yupster]

We have a case in my town right now where a woman called for a cab and then tried to rob him and ended up repeatedly stabbing the driver.

The driver tried to get out but the seatbelt kept him tied to the side of the car so she drove off with him screaming for over a mile while she dragged him to death.

The woman said his cries got to her so she side-swiped some cars trying to scrape him off the car. It didn't work and she abandoned the car with him ripped to shreds but still breathing. He died shortly after.

She plea bargained to life without parole but now she wants to go back for a trial. She said life was too harsh because some people kill their own kids and only get 30 years.

I'm all for giving her a trial and I'm pretty sure she'll get death here in Texas.

I'd also pick the Carr brothers from Kansas as an example of when the rare death penalty should be used. The Witchita massacre is what their crime spree is called where they took five young people hostage, repeatedly raped them all night, stole their money and then drove them to a snowy field, lined them up naked and shot them each in the head execution style. One woman survived when the bullet was deflected by a brooch in her hair so the bullet cracked her skull but didn't pierce it. She is the only survivor and with her wounds (her shot body was also run over by the culprits) she also now has herpes thanks to the rapist.

So for me there are a very few cases that show such a disdain for life
and society that I'd vote for death.