[US admirer]

justice?

[SteveMcKing]

Justice is when bad things happen to bad people, and good to good.

Law is important, but unrelated to real justice.

[peyton randolph]

Should have given him time off for good behavior.

[Pondman88]

Justice would demand retribution, such as the death penalty. As it is, the murderer gets another life sentence.

[Habble Gabble]

If he's already got a life sentence then no loss any way. I wonder why his lawyer even fought about it. Good for him though. One less piece of garbage to molest kids. I bet people send that prisoner cookies and stuff for this.

[numberonepal]

The Lord do move in mysterious ways.

[trisham]

The defense had argued that Druce was mentally ill and under the delusion that God had chosen him to kill Geoghan and send a message to pedophiles around the world.

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Not justice. I believe the above is correct.

[TChris]

Child molestation and sexual abuse are loathsome and heinous crimes. So is murder.

The priest was tried, convicted and sentenced by a jury, in accordance with the law. The law isn't necessarily justice.

However, what happened here was a murder. Justice will be served by the Almighty in the next life.

[Pondman88]

This guy has made a good name for himself in the clinker, he really didn't have much to lose killing Geoghan.

[chae]

I'm just hoping that they end up putting the pedophiles who killed Jessica Lunsford, or Dylan Groehne or Danielle Van Damme or Samanthe Runion in with him.

Sadly, as I typed that, it just hit me how many children have been raped and murdered by these pieces of human debris in the past couple of years. It's terrible.

[zek157]

Solitary confinement for 1 1/2 hours ought to be sufficient.

[Condor51]

First off I OBJECT to this priest being tagged "pedophile" or any of them for that matter which have been found guilty abusing boys - they are HOMOSEXUAL PREDATORS.

"Geoghan was in prison for fondling a 10-year-old boy..."

"Pedophile" gives the misleading impression that girls were sexually abused too. They weren't! These priests' are HOMOSEXUAL predators - period. Scott Ritter and his ilk are "pedophiles". Teachers who have sex with students of the opposite sex are "pedophiles" these priests aren't.

And if calling a spade a spade upsets the 'gay lobby' queers, well that's too flucking bad. As I'm sick and GD tired of having a deviant 2% of the population setting the agenda on "what's a pedophile" and what's a HOMOSEXUAL PREDATOR.

[MBB1984]

The molester received justice here. For the life of me I can't understand why people who sexually molest children don't receive the death penalty. There shouldn't be a "list" of sexual predators except at the morgue.

[doctor noe]

Fantastic! Give that boy an early release!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

A friend was called to serve on that jury.

When asked if he had followed the case he said he had followed it intently, as he was catholic and was outraged at Geoghan and the church and the lack of justice in Ma.

When asked if he could be impartial he replied hell no. There should not even be this trial because the priest should have been killed by the state long ago. He said he thought it was terrible that the state basically used someone else to administer justice when they lacked the guts and that a trial was a waste of taxpayer's money since nothing could happen to the defendent.

He was sent home.

[Age of Reason]

justice?

Absolutely.

Likely he just wants to murder people and simply waits for a convenient excuse to justify venting his criminal killer instinct.

[illinoissmith]

The child molester should have gotten a life sentence. Anything less is a danger to society. The laws that don't allow for that are the perverted root from which this ugly situation arose.

Pragmatically, the prisoner who killed the child rapist probably did prevent a few hundred child rapes. There are probably dozens of children out there who will now have a decent childhood, who wouldn't have if the rapist was let out. It would have been better if the rapist was just kept in prison, but since the state wasn't about to do that... anyone really concerned that the other option, letting the molester go on to rape more children, was thwarted?

The legal system must confirm as closely as possible to justice. When it doesn't, a split is formed between the good done through immediate justice, and the good done from having an orderly society checked in which justice is carried out according to law, evidence, and reason. This split should be minuscule; that allows both goods to work in harmony. The split should never be as glaring as it is in this case. We prevent the split by having sane laws and sane sentencing.

[Idisarthur]

Karma?

Hey, I'm just the messenger.

[NYer]

Catholic Ping - Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[TheDon]

A jury rejected an insanity defense and found prison inmate Joseph Druce guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the strangulation of pedophile priest John Geoghan, a central figure in Boston's clergy sex abuse scandal.

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Druce, 40, is already serving a life sentence for killing a man who allegedly made a sexual pass at him after picking Druce up hitchhiking.

Yeah, life in prison without the possibility of parole, that's the ticket. A murderer won't be able to hurt anyone else in prison...

There is only one punishment that prevents a convicted murderer from repeating the crime, and that is execution.

[Threepwood]

How do you wedge a door shut with a book, anyway?