getting away with murder

**Quick Orange** · 03-06-2009, 03:16 AM

Originally Posted by jockeys

Not where I live

One of the few good things about Texas. Although if you catch your wife in bed with someone else, you have to shoot them both. To discern which to shoot and which not to shoot would sort of nix the whole insanity thing

**icedog** · 03-06-2009, 03:54 AM

My little league baseball coach shot his wife eight times in the face from across the bench seat of his police cruiser as he was dropping her off at work one morning. He left her in the car and walked across the street to the Bridgeport Mental Health Center, dropped the piece on the counter and said, "I have a problem." He was sent to a state mental hospital for three months and was pronounced all better. He got out and got re-married. Guess what he did. He capped his second wife too. Don't believe me? Here you go: serial killer true crime library * serial killer news * list of serial killers * serial murder * female serial killers * crime scene investigation * tueur en serie * omicidi seriali *

**jockeys** · 03-06-2009, 02:46 PM

as Ron White once so eloquently said,
"I’m from Texas. In Texas we have the death penalty. And we USE it. That’s right, if you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. That’s our policy.
They’re trying to pass a bill right now through the Texas Legislature that will speed up the process of execution in heinous crimes where there’s more than three credible eye witnesses. If more than three people saw you do what you did, you don’t sit on death row for 15 years, Jack, you go straight to the front of the line.
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty … my state’s puttin’ in an express lane."

**majurey** · 03-06-2009, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by jockeys

a]They’re trying to pass a bill right now through the Texas Legislature that will speed up the process of execution in heinous crimes where there’s more than three credible eye witnesses. If more than three people saw you do what you did, you don’t sit on death row for 15 years, Jack, you go straight to the front of the line.

You mean all I gotta do to get rid of someone I don't like (in Texas) is fit them up using three other "witnesses" and they fry, quickly?

I'd be afraid of opening my mouth and making enemies in Texas. I'm used to more freedom than that.

**JMS** · 03-06-2009, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by jockeys

as Ron White once so eloquently said,
"I’m from Texas. In Texas we have the death penalty. And we USE it. That’s right, if you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. That’s our policy.
They’re trying to pass a bill right now through the Texas Legislature that will speed up the process of execution in heinous crimes where there’s more than three credible eye witnesses. If more than three people saw you do what you did, you don’t sit on death row for 15 years, Jack, you go straight to the front of the line.
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty … my state’s puttin’ in an express lane."

Hows employment and housing in Texas?

**jockeys** · 03-06-2009, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by JMS

Hows employment and housing in Texas?

still doing better than the nation as a whole:
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/pres...0509epress.pdf

**JMS** · 03-06-2009, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by jockeys

still doing better than the nation as a whole:
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/pres...0509epress.pdf

Can I be a Texan?

YouTube - Lyle Lovett - "That's Right, You're Not From Texas"

**gssixgun** · 03-06-2009, 10:17 PM

Now correct me if I'm wrong but I thought there was some movement toward making it a law in the US that even if they were declared criminally insane that when/if they ever became "cured" they were to serve out their prison sentence at that time.... or was that a dream I had

**GadgetGeek** · 03-07-2009, 06:56 AM

Canada is in the process of re organizing that part of the criminal code. its so screwball and out dated that there have been guys held for months in holding cells with no trial because they could not be put in the remand center, or other lockup.
well, they will be getting around to it when we figure out who's in charge.
In canada the best way to never have a life again is to get an insanity call. there is no guarantee that they will ever let you out, and if they do, it straight to the street with you, good luck with that. at least in prison you could learn a trade and be useful.

**billyjeff2** · 03-09-2009, 01:21 AM

Originally Posted by jockeys

as Ron White once so eloquently said,
"I’m from Texas. In Texas we have the death penalty. And we USE it. That’s right, if you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. That’s our policy.
They’re trying to pass a bill right now through the Texas Legislature that will speed up the process of execution in heinous crimes where there’s more than three credible eye witnesses. If more than three people saw you do what you did, you don’t sit on death row for 15 years, Jack, you go straight to the front of the line.
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty … my state’s puttin’ in an express lane."

Texas has an unfortunate history of executing the mentally ill and minor offenders. Also, anyone who's familiar with the criminal justice systems knows eyewitness testimony can be extremely unreliable. It's also amenable to manipulation (the 3 witnesses can all be lying or merely mistaken). The recent advances in criminal forensics (ie DNA testing) had demonstrated how flawed witness-based evidence can be. There are plenty of documented instances where people have been sentenced to life in prison or even received the death penalty only to be subsequently exonerated when DNA testing became available. In other words-they were innocent from the get go. Texas is hardly this Country's crown jewel when it comes to dispensing justice..

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