Terry Nichols spared the death sentence....again. good thing he's white

[mopaul]

i mean, if he'd been a surly, brown skinned, muslim, arab man accused of helping to murder 168 oklahomans, he might have been sent off to abu ghraib to be tortured to death without the luxury of a trial, or even a lawyer.

good thing little terry was born the right color and the right religion, or we wouldn't have him around to look at and feed for the rest of his miserable racist terrorist life.

what a world, what a world.....

[SlingBlade]

1. Yea, Burnt Toast

:smoke:

[Paragon]

2. Wipe the foam off your mouth, mo.

Plenty of kooky white mothergrabbers on Death Row. (Didn't you see Dead Man Walking? LOL)

Blame the hung jury who couldn't pull the switch on Terry. Or applaud them. Whichever.

[lil-petunia]

3. So after a federal conviction

the some small minded state boys decide that they can do it better - and spend HOW MUCH in tax payer money to try a guy ALREADY in jail for the reat of his life, and even those bozos CAN'T figure out a way to get their blood from a stone?

What a waste. What a pathetic waste of time, money, resources, and egos. This guy isn't going anywhere. he is in a federal pen for life. For ever. For longer than I can think of. This isn't just mental masterbation, this is big time, "let me whip it out and compare lengths, "cause I got an election coming up in a year, and look at me, I tried a really hard case against a really bad guy and I won." using all the federal trial stuff, too no doubt.

And how do you spell "idiot"?

[radiclib]

4. ROTFLMFASO

at your phenomenal sig. Can I get one for my fridge? :toast:

[troublemaker]

5. The juror(s) responsible are heroes

Since Terry Nichols is as good a candidate as anyone for the death penalty and this jury was "death qualified," I assume there will be some controversy about juror misconduct. "Unless you're opposed to capital punishment categorically, why not Nichols? Just who the heck are you waiting for?"

But even if I *supported* the death penalty I would have deadlocked this jury given the chance.

Someone might have been doing their civic duty. I believe jury nullification is a vital part of how our society is supposed to work; it's almost as important as voting. If a law is so unjust or misapplied that 8% of registered voters simply won't convict based on it then the average jury will be hung and prosecutors will stop trying to enforce it. This is a good non-majoritarian check on government because it requires near consensus on matters that involve locking people up.(In this case a juror would be disregarding his duty in sentencing rather than in deciding guilt or innocence, but it's roughly the same.)

The government must be thwarted whenever it enters the twilite zone, doing things like taking millions of dollars away from roads or schools or some other legitimate State government purpose and spending it on a bid to acquire the ability to kill a person who is already incarcerated forever. That despicable move was popular with a majority but the prosecutors shouldn't have gone ahead with it unless they were sure it was damn near unanimous. It seems not to have been.

I assume there will be some ill-will in OK over the cosmic futility of the money wasted and perhaps this will dissuade future acts of abstract State malice.