40 Years Plus

[ls317]

I am really wondering after 40 plus years in the various cases.Church bombing in Alabama( 4 girls) killed.. Killen today convicted on manslughter charges( for his case) and now intrest in the Till case.
State prosecutors also have reopened an investigation into the 1955 slaying of Chicago teenager Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta. Till was kidnapped from his uncle's home after being accused of whistling at a white woman. Three days later, the 14-year-old's mutilated body was found in a river. Earlier this month, his remains were exhumed and autopsied.
Why all the sudden intresting in making things right 40 years later????

[Horse with no Name]

1. Because it is the right thing to do?

:shrug:

[ls317]

4. Right Thing or Damage Control

Yes it is the right thing to do,and along some lines it is damage control.Looking back at the civil rights issues and the deep seeded hate for African Americans in the south during the 60`s and still currently happening today in certain parts
I can see attempting to try this case 5-15 years after the fact.. But my question is 40 plus years later??

[tk2kewl]

2. maybe we can get an answer to another 40+yr old murder

JFK

[jobycom]

5. You mean another answer?

Geeze, someone confesses to that or is proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have been the only person in the world to have been able to commit the crime every other year or so. Soon, they's start publishing books on who WASN'T involved.

I have my own pet theory. I think the shooter was Oswald, and he was hired by someone. That someone has spent the last forty years trying to convince everyone that Oswald was the only person who couldn't have been involved, so that no one will look past Oswald and see his employer. It's as good as any other theory.

My second theory is that it was my mother. She lived two blocks from Oswald in New Orleans, and was engaged to a man from Cuba, who left her to fight for Castro in the Revolution. When my great aunt died, I found a bunch of JFK related stuff horded in a secret cache. Among these items were newspapers of Oswald's murder (I still have that one) and about two hundred Kennedy silver dollars, all beautiful and shiny. So to me, that proves it. Well, except that it was my father's aunt and not my mother's... But that's just a little detail.

So Oswald, or my mother.

[warrens]

3. One less vote for Bush, that's for sure

So I'll be grateful for small favors.

[Connie_Corleone]

6. There is no statute of limitations on murder.

If they're still breathing, they need to be prosecuted. 40 years ago, you couldn't get justice for these murders. Now you can.

[ls317]

7. True

Is a manslaughter conviction is justice?? for what he did

[Igel]

8. If he's sentenced for 15 years or 15000 years or to death, it

makes no difference.

He'll likely be put into jail; in a couple of years, if he's lucky, he'll be moved to the hospital ward; a couple of years after that, he'll be dead.

If he dies 10 years before the conclusion of his sentence, 14990 years before the conclusion of his sentence, or 10 years before his execution ... no difference.

Justice isn't in the words used over the sentence, but in the punishment. He'll have spent the final years of his life in captivity, regardless.

Unless of course he appeals, suitable grounds are found, and he's set free on bond. But that's pretty much not going to happen.