Posted on 04/18/2012 6:47:49 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
A Forestville teenager pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally stabbing a 92-year-old neighbor who had acted like a grandmother to him and then making off with her credit card and cash last summer, authorities said.
William Fitts, 16, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, first-degree burglary and theft in the killing in August of Thelma Steele, authorities said.
Prosecutors said that Fitts stabbed Steele several times with a pocketknife after the two argued about family issues and that he then left her for dead on the couch in her home. Her body was not discovered for several days, after Fitts’s family became concerned that mail was piling up at their elderly neighbor’s house.
The crime shocked the neighborhood near Forestville and District Heights where Fitts and Steele lived. Family members on both sides said the two were close. Steele, they said, watched Fitts grow up from the window of her home on East Avenue and often bought him toys and gadgets for Christmas and his birthday.
For his part, Fitts would often stop by Steele’s house with fruit baskets, cookies and tea, family members said.
But one day in August, prosecutors said, Fitts stabbed Steele several times with a pocketknife. He told detectives that the two had argued about family issues and that he returned sometime later to take Steele’s purse, cash and credit card.
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Yet more black on white crime piles up, but this old lady probably was asking for it.
Here’s yet another son for Obozo to claim and Jackson and Sharp-as-a-tack-ton to pimp for.
Just think about how stupid most criminals are—they plot, scheme and do their dirty deeds lusting for greedy gains yet they give little consideration that most crimes get caught and then all their greedy little diabolical plans for happiness go kaput and they wind up in the slammer or maybe dead-—and unrepentant ones go to hell forever. Now that’s stupid as can be!
You don't go nearly far enough. The Scriptures don't say just "some people" are born that way (depraved). The Scriptures clearly teach that every person is born that way. Deprived, meaning deprived of Sanctifying Grace and headed toward ruin.
That's the reason why we need a Savior. Jesus didn't die for us because H was so impressed with our lovable goodness. He died for us because we were so incorrigibly sick, selfish, stupid, wicked, and clueless, that He knew that only the most extreme intervention possible would save us.
"For when we were yet helpless, in due time Christ died for the ungodly... God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
It's as exceptionless as you can get.
What that kind woman did from her heart...
...was seen as a vending machine to that punk.
When the vending machine failed to dispense...he cut open the vending machine and took what he wanted.
A sick society and our future.
Prepare.
Seriously, why have we outlawed hanging?
When we did, it was because several federal judges felt queasy about hanging, and the death penalty in general. They just plain didn’t like it. So they decreed it could not be done.
Weirdly enough, only New Hampshire and Washington State have the *option* for hanging, if an inmate *requests* it, though they primarily use lethal injection.
It’s probably time that we brought back hanging as a means of execution.
And while we’re at it, I think it *might* be a good idea that if an inmate on death row is psychologically examined and determined to be of “sound mind” and normal or better IQ (90+), that they are “given the option” to choose “expedited hanging”, that *takes away* the right of third parties (other than their attorneys), to put forth appeals “on their behalf”.
This could be though of as, “Yes I killed (him/her/them). Hang me now and be done with it!”
Of course, as I said, this could *only* be done after a jury has both found them guilty, and issued a death penalty.
Surprisingly, a large number of death row convicts would vie for this option, as preferential to prison for a decade or two of appeals before execution.
Gen 6:5 The LORD observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and He saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.
Seriously, why have we outlawed hanging?
Gen 9:5 “And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person’s life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die.
Gen 9:6 If anyone takes a human life, that person’s life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings in His own image.
The book, “The Sociopath Next Door,” by Martha Stout stated that the Inuits (sp?) dealt with destructive individuals by taking the individual hunting and then pushing him off the ice into the water.
“most crimes get caught” I worked w/juvenile offenders about 25 years ago, and at that time, the stats indicated that 95% of burglaries went unsolved. One kid’s “best” burglary netted him $5,000 by report. OTOH, working at McDonald’s at the time would have netted him less. Not sure what the situation is now.
Be careful who you put your trust in. And a 92 year old woman shouldn’t have been living alone in that neighborhood.
“Drive him to the tree and nowhere else but the tree.”
I prefer Ol’ Sparky, myself.
FRY HIS ASS.
What a degenerate piece of human trash.
Proving that this perp is smart enough to be a Miami area democrat legislator don’tchaknow. Why, electing him to public office could lead to being pres__ent one day, like our current occupant.
Standing and applauding...outstanding!
“I wouldn’t be suprised that in some jurisdictions in the near future a black person will be able to assualt someone white with no legal repurcussions.”
Orenthal James Simpson?
He had the “juice” to hire good lawyers, and make Kardashians famous.
Karma go him later.
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