I like when you kill someone and go to prison for live and kill someone there and now what, nada, nothing.
"A Bloomington man who stabbed an acquaintance to death while her 5-year-old daughter was nearby pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree intentional murder.
"She [the girl] heard it all," Lori Thompson, the mother of Brooke Thompson, said she told police. Brooke Thompson's body was found Aug. 14 in the bathroom of Edward M. Johnson's apartment.
Johnson, 26, told Hennepin County District Judge Rob Lynn, who was hearing the case without a jury, that he stabbed Thompson several times with a knife on Aug. 13. He said the stabbing was intentional, but he gave no reason for it.
Lori Thompson said at the time of the killing that Johnson wanted a relationship with Brooke Thompson but that her daughter, 22, did not. …"
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Back in 1981, a female Correction officer was murdered by an inmate at New York State's Greenhaven Correctional Facility. The convict, serial murderer Lemuel Smith was serving a life sentence.
I was working at Auburn at the time. We attended her funeral service at Clinton. Her husband was an officer at Clinton Correctional at the time. He later worked as a Captain at the last facility I was at before I retired.
The bastard Lemuel Smith is still alive.
“I like when you kill someone and go to prison for live and kill someone there and now what, nada, nothing.”
If it’s any consolation (for anyone!) they moved him to MN’s only Super Max.
He now gets one hour a day out of his box.
Did you read this guy’s life? His parents were both Chicago Cops. Mom Cop filed for divorce. Dad Cop shot her 8 times, then killed himself - in front of this future perp.
Then he went on to a life of crime and murder. Life has so little meaning for some.