Shawna Forde gets death penalty

[kinvore.livejournal.com]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/22/arizona.double.killing/?hpt=T2

I don't advocate the death penalty but I shed no tears for this woman. Here's the crux of the story: an anti-immigrant militant attacked a Latino family, killing the father and 9-year-old daughter (as she begged for her life), and shooting the mother who only survived because she pretended to die from the gunshot.

The murderers thought the father was a drug dealer and they wanted his money to finance their budding hate group. I guess that would have been a nifty recruiting tool for extremists, their willingness to kill Mexicans to get things done. Nevermind the fact that the victims were American-born citizens, such details are irrelevant when racial bigotry is concerned.

This is the sort of thing that happens when you fan the flames of hatred, dehumanization is the predecessor to atrocity. I'm surprised this didn't get more attention from the mainstream media, I guess they aren't as liberal as so many seem to think.

Comments

Re: *shudders*

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

You think a lobotomy would be the way to deal with murders?
(hmm that sounds like something someone else might write)
Do you think some kind of mind alteration is preferable to the death penalty? I am actually serious here, and that's why I used the word scary.

Re: *shudders*

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

They're both scary, I'll grant. It's finding the one scary, and the other OK, that worries me.

Re: *shudders*

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

At this point of my life (statistically I have 15 more years left give or take) I prefer the idea of death to alsheimers, I hope that helps explain my mind set...in any case I really have to go to bed!