Members of the public gallery in Cape Town gasped when the rock allegedly used to kill Hannah Cornelius was produced to the judge in the court room Posted on 10/19/2018 7:36:35 PM PDT by Perseverando
The murder weapon: Two-foot, 82lb rock used to smash South African student to death as she was held down after being kidnapped and gang-raped is shown to court
Rock used to bludgeon Hannah Cornelius to death produced in court The two-foot 82lb rock used to smashed student's skull after being gang-raped Experts say gifted student died instantly during the Stellenbosch attack Public gallery in court room gasped at size of alleged weapon shown to the judge Vernon Witbooi, 33, Geraldo Parsons, 27, Nashville Julius, 29, and Eben Van Nieberk, 28, stand accused at the Western High Court in Cape Town
The two-foot by one-foot by one-foot boulder had been used to cover a borehole and was slammed down on Hannah Cornelius's head twice as she was held down, a court was told.
The fatal blow was delivered after at least three men had taken turns to rape the gifted scholar.
Hannah, 21, would almost certainly have died instantly according to experts. However, to make sure, one of her killers also plunged a knife into her neck.
Vernon Witbooi, 33, Geraldo Parsons, 27, Nashville Julius, 29, and Eben Van Nieberk, 28, face charges including murder, kidnap, robbery and rape.
The chilling exhibit was lifted with a struggle onto a desk before the judge at the Western High Court in Cape Town, South Africa, by two strong security guards.
Members of the public gallery in Cape Town gasped when the rock allegedly used to kill Hannah Cornelius was produced to the judge in the court room
Hannah Cornelius, 21, was raped and murdered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, after she and her friend were carjacked by four men in May last year
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Yep.
“Can the murders be prevented?”
“No, but capital punishment will ensure that the murderer will never commit another murder.”
100% true.
Kill ‘em.
Can recurrences be prevented?
I fear the answer is, no. So, kill all murderers, to
(1) prevent recidivism, and
(2) dissuade the murderers who may be wavering in their decisions.
Will we ever stop those who fall in category (3)?
The ones who kill (like Ted Bundy or Charles Manson or whomever) just because they want to? I doubt it.
But the current holocaust of victims of killers is unacceptable and unsustainable.
Wait, George Jefferson had that mansion in the sky...
“Put them in a boat. Take them 1/2 mile offshore where the great white’s hunt. Chum the water, wait for 20 minutes and let them attempt to swim to shore.”
We all have our favorite torutes; each more painful than the last.
Yes!
They deserve hell!
But every week we are going to see new stories of people who deserve this punishment.
How will it end?
Why do humans do this?
And if the answer is “Oh, well, they will” what does that mean?
I’ve lost faith in human kindness, and I’ve lost faith in the ability of societies to either punish or dissuade or deter them from murder and rape. So what now?
It is EXTREMELY difficult to get an emigration visa, in RSA and there are heavy restriction re how much money ( and the RSA money value keeps falling ) that is allowed to be taken out of the country.
How many people is "a lot" and are you talking about right now, or in the past?
Yep.
Because the blood is on the bottom side.
It's not difficult to imagine that that stark difference could at least partially explain the incredible crime rate there...with whites *and* blacks being the victims.
The story reminds me of the fictional story of a young woman with a flat tire in a bad section of town at night who is approached by 4 young men as she's trying to change the tire. The question is posed: Does it make a difference to the outcome of the story if we know the 4 young men are just leaving a weekly Bible study.
South Africa, as far as I know, for black is a Godless, Marxist, dystopian hell on earth for too many, both black and white.
And yet you still posted what you did?
7in. disc grinder or a sawzall with a course wood blade ?
“Did you miss the fact that this happened in RSA ( REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA )?”
No, sorry, I didn’t. I focused in my comment only on local American tragedies, to bring it more home to readers.
Throughout the world, there are horrendous killings going on.
Evil happens.
I guess we can implement policies to reduce it, like captial punishment, but we can’t stop it.
My guess is the bottom doesn’t look too good
They might walk. That’s why they are smiling.
The ANC and the president of RSA have set the blacks on track to kill whites, OPENLY, and for NO damned reason, other than because they are white! It is POLITICAL!
Stupid posts are ruinous to this site and makes ALL of us look uneducated/STUPID and are unhelpful.
Fear there will be hell to pay?
There will be.
And I do not fear for them.
They are gettng what they deserve.
Me too.
Oh, I know certain SJWs, who would go so far as to say: “Just redressing the legacy of KKKolonialiSSt KKKleptomania, one stone at a time.”
The perps all seem very smug and proud of themselves
Yeah, because the death penalty would be inhumane, dontcha know?
We have to worry about their human dignity.
I think not.
Have the apes drawn and quartered.
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