Let's get Superior Court Judge Edward Bullard to hear the torture trials

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/01/state/n085300D30.DTL&type=politics

A man who brutally attacked and tortured two Lompoc women a decade ago has been sentenced to 39 years to life in prison.


Derek Buncom was serving a six-year sentence for residential burglary in Alaska when a prisoner DNA sample linked him to the 1999 sex attacks in Lompoc. One of the women was raped.

The 46-year-old Buncom pleaded guilty to three felony counts, including rape by force and torture, while a Santa Maria jury was being selected in February.

Prosecutor Stephen Foley says Buncom "expressed disgust in himself for his actions and said he wanted to spare the victims from having to testify."

He was sentenced Thursday by Superior Court Judge Edward Bullard.

[ThirdWorldJohn]

1. Another reason not to torture or order someone to torture is.....

because it usually ends with a person feeling self hate and a feeling of self disgust by the person doing the torturing.

[seemslikeadream]

2. and then we are no different than Manila either

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Activists in masks display placards as they call for an end to torture and human rights violations during a rally in Manila on April 26, 2009. Human rights group Amnesty International reported that there are at least 200 political killlings and 200 enforced dissapearance cases that have occured in the Philippines since 2001 and claimed that the government must act to break the chain of impunity.