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Today, San Francisco's California Supreme Court made the decision to uphold the death penalty of Richard Allen Davis, the man convicted of kidnapping and killing 12-year-old Polly Klass at knife point during her slumber party. If you recall, the case made headlines across the country back in the day, including a cameo from Peteluma local Winona Ryder. (An Aside: Does Ryder still live in Pacific Heights? Where is she these days? We miss her. Word has it she's also in some sort of Star Wars Outerspace Galactica-ish movie we will never see.) Anyway, according to reports, a lengthy 112 page decision boiled down to this: Yeah, let's kill the bastard. So, congratulations to all of you eye-for-an-eye believers.
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Winona Ryder is a killer?
Oh wait, I totally misread the headline after I saw the photo.
This guy is the poster bastard for the death penalty.
Some animals just have to be put down.
Signed the People of California.
You certainly don't speak for me, but thanks for taking the time!
Yep, I don't care morally one way or the other but Pat Brown argued quite effectively that life without parole was much cheaper than the death penalty in some book or another he wrote. Maybe we should have public executions (just like the Taliban!) and charge $50. It would be cheaper than a Raiders game.
Brock you actually might like the new Trek movie. Even people who don't like sci fi find it fun to watch....Winona plays' Spock's mom...
That Richard Allen Davis is still alive, on the taxpayers' dime, and able to appeal this shit sixteen years after he killed Polly Klaas is... insulting.
Polly Klaas would have been 28 this year.
Kill this man.
If you are concerned about the taxpayers' dime - a life in prison without parole would certainly be much, much cheaper than the death penalty.
But if you're out for vengeance...well, that's a different matter entirely isn't it.
the system is beyond broken. it should not take more than a year to appeal these death penalty cases if we had a panel of 3 judges to review them up to our supreme court level. these people worked hard to earn their punishment. denying it to them for 20 years is unfair to all parties involved.
Remember when that Iraq guy was found guilty on a Friday, hung on a Saturday, and there were already jackass copycat murders online by Sunday?
“If you are concerned about the taxpayers' dime - a life in prison without parole would certainly be much, much cheaper than the death penalty.”
Fuck you.
And fuck the argument of “it’s cheaper to keep parasites alive in our society under our current broken system instead of treating them like the cancer they are.”
China got it right.
ANY kind of child molestation, rape, murder = bullet in the head and the families of the murder get a bill for the bullet.
And you do it NOW.
Not 20 years later when the local news stations report the death and you feel like you’re watching an episode of That 70’s Show or Dazed and Confused.
Do it NOW.
Dust the motherfucker.
Then go after his family.
I suppose you'll volunteer to talk to the family after a rigorous postmortem investigation proves the executed was actually innocent all along?
Lemme guess your argument: "that's the price we pay as a society" or some other equally not well thought out retort.
Personally, I like the idea of sending them up to the moon as volunteer first-gen offworlders, testing mining and terraforming equipment in a sub-G, zero atmospheric environment for some evil corporation that has an excess of money to spend. No mingling with society, no prison guard pensions, no reviews. Just shove you on a rock millions of miles away from society and make you fend for yourself. If you're innocent we'll reverse the crime and pick you up on the next shipment. If you're guilty, well at least you get fresh "air" while you chisel away at martian soil. And if they refuse to do the work, at the very least we'll have good data on how long someone can live in space without food or water.