[ZeroHedge] While California lawmakers are trying to protect pedophiles, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday threw support behind his state's decision to seek the death penalty for a man indicted for the sexual battery of a child.
The post was made to X just hours after State Attorney William Gladsome filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty in the case of Joseph Andrew Giampa, who has been indicted on six counts of sexual battery on a person under the age of 12, and three counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child.
Given the severity of the crime and its impact on the community, the Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office has filed a notice that it intends to seek the death penalty pursuant to Florida Statutes 794.011(2)(a) and 921.1425.
The decision to pursue the highest penalty reflects the gravity of the charges and the State Attorney’s Office’s dedication to holding criminals accountable for their actions. The State Attorney's Office acknowledges the sensitivity of this matter and the impact it has on the community. Our commitment to ensuring justice and protecting the vulnerable remains unwavering.
The 36-year-old Giampa was arrested in November. According to the affidavit, Giampa led authorities to a camper and showed them video on a laptop of a man sexually abusing a child while recording the act.
Unnecessary details can be read at the link.
The man then puts the camera down and moves in front of it, revealing that it was Giampa.
"If an individual rapes an 11-year-old, a 10-year-old, a 2-year-old or a 5-year-old, they should be subject to the death penalty," said state Sen. Jonathan Martin (R-Fort Myers), who sponsored the bill.
As The Messenger further notes, the case is highly unique, as it's likely the first time in modern history that prosecutors will seek the death penalty for such an act that did not involve murder.
It' is's also likely to set off constitutional challenges as current Supreme Court precedent does not allow capital punishment for rape.
The court ruled in 1977 that applying the penalty in cases of rape violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The court once again ruled in 2008 that the punishment was unconstitutional in cases of child rape that don’t result in the death of the victim.
Despite this, lawmakers in Florida passed a bill making sexual battery of a child eligible for the death penalty.
The Florida bill stated that prior high court rulings on the matter were “wrongly decided, and that such cases are an egregious infringement of the states’ power to punish the most heinous of crimes.” -The Messenger
The bill went into effect Oct. 1.
Trump and DeSantis on the same page
In July, former President Trump released a campaign proposal that would hit human traffickers with the death penalty.
"When I am back in the White House, I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children," said Trump in a video released by his campaign. "I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately."
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Winning the issue.
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Great idea. Now do it in less than ten years, and you might have a deterrent effect.
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Guy deserves it. But I don't trust prosecutors.
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The argument against this remains valid: If the POS knows they are going to get the death penalty no matter what, then they have little to lose by murdering the child and trying to dispose of the body.
What came after the American Golden Age of freedom and technological wonders? Another Dark Age, if the Progressives and their Democratic politicians get their way.
[MSN]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced a review that could eventually lead to the end of PVC plastic production -- impacting everything from records to rubber ducks.
Vinyl chloride, which is used in the manufacturing and processing of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), was officially classified as a human carcinogen in 1974 and banned in hair sprays, refrigerants, cosmetics and drugs.
It is the same chemical that burned in a tower of black smoke over an Ohio town where a train derailed earlier this year.
But it continues to be widely used to make PVC water lines, siding panels for houses, and product packaging -- as well as vinyl records and bathtub toys.
An EPA statement on the review, which includes four other chemicals, said the step was "consistent with a commitment from the Biden-Harris Administration to understand and address environmental and toxic exposures" as part of President Joe Biden's "Cancer Moonshot" initiative.
Reacting to the news, Judith Enck, president of the nonprofit Beyond Plastics and a former EPA regional administrator told AFP: "Today is step one, and we've been waiting for step one for decades."
National, state and city governments across the world have been steadily tightening restrictions on PVC usage and disposal.
If you don't eat it or burn it there is no danger.
[ZERO] Southwest Airlines is receiving a mix of praise and scorn over a policy giving obese passengers free seats to hold their overabundant girth. Basic economics suggests that it will result in healthy passengers subsidizing the humungous. Worse, some thin passengers will get booted from flights to make room.
Southwest didn't announce its "Customer of Size" policy with fanfare. Rather, it came to wide public attention after fat TikTokkers started educating each other on how to take advantage of it.
Southwest has caved to the cattle.
’Customers of size’ will now receive a free extra seat to accommodate their poor health decisions.
[BBC] In 2017, Ellie Highwood, then professor of climate physics at the University of Reading, posted a photograph on Twitter of a "global warming blanket" she had crocheted, in which rows of colour represented average global temperature changes across time. She had no idea that a graphic version later created by a colleague would become a global symbol of climate change.
The "climate stripes" image has been embraced by activists globally, and used as a cover image for Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book, as well as for print editions of The Economist and the Folha de S.Paulo, a Brazilian newspaper. The stripes have been worn in London Fashion Week catwalks and as part of the UK football team Reading FC’s players' uniform.
The stripes have been displayed as public infrastructure, on public transport in Europe, decorated buildings and even natural landmarks such as the White Cliffs of Dover in England. Recently, they were shown in a three day music festival in Mexico City.
[X and WND] Ep. 53 Bryce Mitchell just got bumped up to the main card at tomorrow’s UFC fights. There’s a reason he’s a fan favorite. pic.twitter.com/KtcP1cpx6S
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 15, 2023
Bryce Mitchell is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Featherweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Mitchell appeared in the reality television series The Ultimate Fighter: Undefeated. As of September 5, 2023, he is #10 in the UFC featherweight rankings.Wikipedia
[AFRICANEWS] Nnamdi Kanu will remain in jug pending the determination of his hearing. The west African nation's supreme court ruled Friday that the separatist leader should be kept in prison, overturning a 2022 judgment by a lower court that ordered his release.
Judge Lawal Garba also ruled that his extradition was illegal but his terrorism trial at a lower federal court should continue as reported by Rooters news agency.
Last year October, an appeal court in the capital Abuja had dropped all charges against Kanu after ruling that he had been illegally arrested abroad. His lawyers said he was detained in Kenya, or forcibly 'kidnapped' before been transported to Nigeria.
Nnamdi Kanu is the leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) group, which has been campaigning for the creation of an independent state in south-eastern Nigeria.
He was first arrested in 2015 on treason and terrorism charges. While out on bail, Kanu fled the country.
The embattled separatist leader has not been released since his rearrest in 2021. He will remain under the custody of Nigeria's secret police Department of State Services (DSS) as the government sets a new date for the continuation of his trial.
[IsraelTimes] Nassau County legislator and former IDF paratrooper Mazi Pilip to face off against Democratic former congressman Tom Suozzi in February 13 special election.
Long Island Republicans selected Mazi Melesa Pilip, an Æthiopian Jewish Nassau Countypolitician, to run in the special election to replace George Santos, who was expelled after he was exposed for alleged fraud and lies, including that he was Jewish.
Pilip emerged as a likely contender to replace Santos when his lies were exposed soon after his election last year, and she was officially named Thursday as the candidate, nearly two weeks after the expulsion of Santos. She will face Democrat Tom Suozzi, who is hoping to get his old job back after quitting the seat in an unsuccessful bid for governor. The special election is set for February 13.
Pilip, 44, is an Orthodox Jewish mother of seven who served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army and campaigned in Israel for better representation of Æthiopian Jews. She has also taken a prominent role in campaigning against the spike in antisemitism in New York following the brutal October 7 onslaught in which Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... -led Death Eaters killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and Israel’s subsequent war on Hamas in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Pilip was 12 during Operation Solomon, the 1991 airlift that brought Æthiopian Jews to Israel. After a stint in the paratroop division of the army, she studied occupational therapy and diplomacy at Israeli universities, where she met her Ukrainian-American husband who was then a medical student.
In Israel, she led the Æthiopian Student Union for two years. "I was a voice of so many young kids who wanted equal opportunity and really my main focus was especially education, because I do believe through education, you can achieve a lot and you can integrate into the society," she told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in January.
Pilip ran for her seat on the Nassau County legislature in 2021 in part because of the antisemitism she said her son faced in middle school. She ousted a Democrat to win her spot in 2021, campaigning by asking Jewish supporters to put her up over Shabbat so she could visit synagogues. She was handily reelected last month.
Pilip was among a broad swath of Long Island Republicans who denounced Santos and called on him to resign as soon as his deceptions were revealed.
"I trusted him and I told people to vote for him. I campaigned with him. And so when you do something like this, and then keep every day there’s something new coming about him," she told JTA. "It’s making you feel uncomfortable because people are asking, you know, ’What’s going on, Mazi? What happened with this guy?’"
Politico reported last week that Pilip is a registered Democrat, though she holds her current position as a Republican and has been backed by Republicans when she was running for county office. The arrangement is not entirely uncommon in states that have closed primaries, where so-called crossover voters who identify with one party register under another so they can vote in primary elections.
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*shrug* At one time Mr. Wife and I registered for opposite parties so that we would have a vote in both primaries, in the hope of getting some candidates we could actually vote for in the general, instead of having to vote against. Haven’t done it in a while, though.
[Free Press] New computers all seem to look like each other. They’re ubiquitously lighter, sleeker, and more capable than their clunky forefathers, with superfast software, hyperclear displays, and ever more powerful fans to cool the circuit boards we ride all day.
But Keegan McNamara wanted just two things in a personal computer. "To be beautiful and serene," he says.
The 25-year-old software engineer believes most commercial laptops offer neither. "There’s nothing serene about them," he says. "The experience is awful. You’re getting bombarded with notifications, along with all the ills and distractions of social media. It stops being a tool."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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