"I never killed nobody who didn't have it coming to him."
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| 2010-01-31 |
| Prison inmate Ricky Silva thinks the death penalty is too severe a punishment for strangling his cellmate with a shoestring. In fact, he's proud of what he did. And he wants you to be proud of him, too. "It's not like I killed an innocent citizen or somebody who was undeserving," said Silva, 29, of Terry Bell's Oct. 14 homicide at the Martin Correctional Institution, where both men were serving life prison terms. "Under my belief system, there's still some people in the world that need killing and he was one of them," he said. "I don't believe I should pay for killing somebody that needed to be killed." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #15 Maybe they should put him on death row, in a double cell, with an unlimited supply of shoelaces. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-01-31 18:48 |
| #14 The Chinese will bill the parents for the cost of the shoelace, as no bullets were involved. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-31 16:56 |
| #13 you have to ask yourself, "what would the chinese do?" I'm guessing something along the lines of "Nine-Millimeter Excedrin Headache." |
| Posted by: RIcky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-01-31 16:42 |
| #12 you have to ask yourself, "what would the chinese do?" |
| Posted by: 746 2010-01-31 13:00 |
| #11 I doubt it's much of a deterrent as those guys are pretty psycho. But it does have a substantial impact on recidivism. This goes to the heart of the matter. What is the purpose of society's response to violation of it's norms? To punish? To compensate? To prevent? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-01-31 10:15 |
| #10 well, kind of hard to argue with his logic...certainly makes more sense to me then last week's SOTU...and will definitely save the taxpayer's more money then what's coming from our Clown-In-Chief. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2010-01-31 10:06 |
| #9 Before there were 'human rights advocates', rapists and (especially) child molesters typically didn't survive their first week in prison. A deterrent perhaps? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2010-01-31 09:13 |
| #8 If this were in Texas, it might fly.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-31 08:53 |
| #7 The power of life and death is the ultimate power. When the state drops that power, it doesn't disappear, it just moves on to others who will use it. They become more powerful than the state. Just watch the frustration of the cops in television programs like 48 Hours. They can't get cooperation to solve a murder because those who perpetrated it have more power than the state, a death penalty without due process or appeal. Watch as authorities threaten a witness for not cooperating. What are you going to do, time in jail or face death? The other side holds the trump card. It is said a civilized society doesn't need a death penalty, to wit the reply would be that a civilized society wouldn't have murder in its midst. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-01-31 08:51 |
| #6 "I never killed nobody who didn't have it coming to him." |
| Posted by: Raj 2010-01-31 08:28 |
| #5 Who's his next roomie? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-01-31 07:47 |
| #4 Welcome to Canada's informal system of capital punishment. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2010-01-31 07:23 |
| #3 I think we are onto something here. There may not be a legal precedent but this situation has promise ( at least in an institutional way). There are no laws concerning who is assigned NEXT in this guys cell as the other bunk mate, is there ? I think Malmo the Buttweasal should get the next bunk assignment ( at least until the trial ). We have anybody else who has it coming? We could do "house-cleaning " in this wing of the cell block. Save thousands for the taxpayers. And its free. (Oh, and issue Silva some steel toed lineman's boots and a heavy belt. And hand him a jar of vitamins.) |
| Posted by: Big Eddie 2010-01-31 03:44 |
| #2 I need a cookie |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-01-31 00:25 |
| #1 Silva's got a point. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-01-31 00:12 |