Originally posted by Staga
Not my problem but I find it a bit odd that Ronghi got life for killing and raping a child and this one gets death sentence after killing two adult soldiers.
Which one is bigger crime?
You're talking as if someone here had any say on this staga.
Question for anyone: Who feels that the rape murder of an 11 year old girl merrits the death penalty?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess most people's response to that Staga. Most people are going to go for the death penalty on that one. So, what you're actually finding odd is why a group of 12 people that do not post on this bbs felt otherwise, or why a prosecutor decided waive persuing the death penalty in lieu of a plea of guilty.
We recently had a man near here rape and murder a 14 year old girl. While everyone was still searching for this girl, he then raped and murdered her best friend. He was finally caught and tried to pretend to be insane (as if these were the actions of a sane man) but phsycologists weren't getting on board with that. When he realized the insanity plea wouldn't work, he plead guilty to avoid the death penalty. I don't know a single person that didn't want this guy to fry. It doesn't speak for the people in the state and it doesn't speak for the country when things like this turn out the way they do.
Read up on the Ronghi case and see what the findings and actions against the unit were. Then you'll understand how seriously the military took this. Maybe then, you won't have to throw it out as if there's any significance to it other than your tendancy to point at something really horrible and pretend your not implying anything by doing it. Hell... maybe then you and nuke wouldn't have so much in common.