“The Posey County prosecutor has decided not to seek the death penalty against a man charged with the beating death a 79-year-old retired librarian inside her Mount Vernon home. Forty-five-year-old Herbert Clark Junior is charged with the May fifth murder of Carol Lamar. Prosecutor Jodi Uebelhack says she’s not willing to have the victim’s family wait through an appeals process that could last several years.
Clark is a convicted sex offender who was released from prison four months before Lamar’s death in the town about 20 miles northwest of Evansville. Clark has pleaded innocent to the charges and faces an October 13th trial date. amar’s niece, Betty Espenlaub, says the family supports the prosecutor’s decision to not seek the death penalty.” Read More.
Death penalty
String the bastard up by the testes, I say.
This appears very much to be a case suitable for capital punishment. Unfortunately, the lawyers invovled aren’t likely to be up to task of meeting the high standards that should be the prerequisite for capital punishment. The first of which is an unshakeable conviction.
Re:Death penalty
While this is a horrific crime, the death penalty is an outrageous punishment. Killing people for their crimes is not justified. We have prisons adequate to house these types of criminal sociopaths.
If I am ever murdered, no matter how horrible the crime, please don’t execute the person who did it.
Bush Bashin’ or Believin’?
This appears very much to be a case suitable for capital punishment
Say Fang, any chance this lapse of frankness betrays the inner reactionary conservative within? ; )
You have a friend that shares, and has in fact demonstrated, your desire for unshakeable conviction.
Uphold law on death penalty; and think of the victims. (Jun 2000)
Re:Bush Bashin’ or Believin’?
This is an equivocation. Even you should know that there is a difference between a religious conviction and a conviction in a court of law. Since you don’t, I’ll explain it to you. A religious conviction is a personal belief; a criminal conviction is a matter of being found guilty of a crime. Unshakeable religious convictions have generally been the cause of unspeakable grief and sorrow, such as the crusades and the “witch” burnings during the Middle Ages or the genocidal sacrifices on the altar of Bush’s arrogance of power in Iraq. An unshakeable criminal conviction is one that cannot be overturned on appeal.
Not that I expect you to get it.
No more chances!
How many times have we seen serious criminals let off the hook and then they went on to commit more and more serious crimes? Mr Clark has done just that. He has committed another serious crime. I say bring on the one-strike-out rule and many will think twice before they commit any serious crime!