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2011-07-25 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Arkansas Shooter Cops A Plea To Avoid Death Penalty

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-25 14:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The prosecutor probably rightly figured that the defense had succeeded in putting at least two recalcitrants on the jury, who would vote to not give him the death penalty anyway.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-25 15:44|| 2011-07-25 15:44|| Front Page Top

#2 he says it's justified because of U.S. military action in the Middle East.

Dude, that excuse wouldn't get you out of a parking ticket.

Posted by SteveS 2011-07-25 16:22|| 2011-07-25 16:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Now he'll have decades in which he won't be able to martyr himself.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-07-25 22:07|| 2011-07-25 22:07|| Front Page Top

#4 he says it's justified because of U.S. military action in the Middle East

I still have to see a Muslim shooting an islamist imam for what Al Quaida and affilistes do in the Middle East or in North Africa. None of their indignation ever goes in that direction.

Posted by JFM 2011-07-25 23:25|| 2011-07-25 23:25|| Front Page Top

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