Posted on 01/09/2011 12:19:47 AM PST by FTJM
A shooting rampage in Arizona Saturday killed U.S. District Judge John M. Roll, and while his death initially was overshadowed by news of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' injuries, Roll's murderer is sure to face the harshest justice provided by law.
Roll was killed while just passing through an outdoor town-hall style event called "Congress on your Corner" held by Giffords in a Safeway parking lot in Tucson.
"My understanding is he just went to the Safeway to do some shopping ... and he just stopped to chat and say hi, " C.J. Karamargin, Giffords communications director, told Fox News.
Police say suspect Jared Lee Loughner, who is in custody, killed six people, including Roll, a 9-year-old child and Giffords' aide Gabe Zimmerman, and wounded 13 others, including Giffords who was shot in the head as she met with her constituents at the start of the meeting.
Pima County, Ariz., Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said authorities believe Giffords was targeted by the shooter. But Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano said the killer is likely facing the death penalty even if he didn't target Roll or others in particular during the shooting.
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Napolitano said it would be a federal crime of capital murder eligible for the death sentence if the killer's motive was to prevent Roll from carrying out his judicial role.
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If it were up to me, this story would have mentioned Death Penalty in the past tense.
That guy ain’t gettin’ nothing but the booby hatch.
Not that he doesnt’t deserve to dance “Danny Deaver” several times over, but what makes the life of a federal judge worth more than the life of a nine-year-old girl, or the lives of those poor mooks who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Yeah, I know: The powers-that-be protect their own.
Doesn’t seem too likely to me that the guy’s motive was to stop the judge from carrying out his judicial duties.
Agreed, since apparently his presence there was pure coincidence. Poor guy.
It is certainly capital multiple murder under Arizona law.
No..He is a good little red diaper doper baby.
He will be put up in a luxury psych resort at
taxpayer expense.
A simple shot in the arm would save us from
such miscreants.
Probably defense mitigating against conviction and against death penalty:
mental illness
Do we have info on his parents’ politics?
Yes, but the guy will plead insanity, which likely could be proven just from the stuff we’ve seen so far. So he’ll sit in some institute at taxpayers expense.
“Do we have info on his parents’ politics?”
I dunno about his parents, but all reports now say that he was a strong leftist, active on KOS.
As I said...a red diaper doper baby (Michael Savage term for young neo-Marxist)
He will never see the light of day again.
Vendome Death Penalty:
Stack Razor wire 5 rolls wide and 5 rolls high.
Drop this loser into the rolls from a two story building.
Let him lay there, in pain, for two days.
Drop a bucket of effluence and lemon juice on him.
Marinate 4 hours.
Let loose a flock of vultures and a jar of scarabs.
Just deserts.
‘Red diaper babies’ traditionally were raised in leftist families.
ROFLMAO!
He’ll never be executed. Bleeding heart Lefties will see to it he never has to face the needle.
“‘Red diaper babies’ traditionally were raised in leftist families.”
Obviously...It is why America is dying.
All of the products of education from K through university
are educated by Marxist, to be Marxist.
Those of us that are traditional Americans will win a few battles, but not the war. We can never go back to the America that I grew up in.
We should have recognized this 20 years ago, but it is now too late. Just look at what Americans elected to be their POTUS. It could not be any more disgusting.
I think I am fortunate to now be retired and living far away.
I find it “funny” that those same people who might indeed be mentaly ill - once getting the pass on their mental illness - have no qualms about lording it over others and acting even more crazy when let go, tormenting others even more, much like a gay or pedophile let loose to flame around.
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