red states rule
05-10-2013, 02:39 AM
This is great and I hope the bastard gets the death sentence. Of course, he will end up serving life on death row thanks to the bleeding hearts
Wait,” you say, “can’t he get the death penalty for kidnapping, imprisoning, and raping three girls over and over again (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/09/cleveland-kidnapper-may-face-death-penalty-for-beating-pregnant-captive-until-she-miscarried/#) for 10 years?” Why, no. Our Supreme Court, in its wisdom, decided a few years ago that it would amount to cruel and unusual punishment to give the needle to a degenerate like this “merely” for raping children repeatedly. As a matter of constitutional law, due to society’s “evolving standards of decency,” (http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/07-343.pdf) only a crime that results in death can carry a capital sentence. Which is interesting, because I’d bet (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/09/cleveland-kidnapper-may-face-death-penalty-for-beating-pregnant-captive-until-she-miscarried/#) if you polled Americans today, you’d get upwards of 60-70 percent (and maybe more) to say that it’d be quite decent indeed to kill this guy, and not in a painless way like lethal injection either. Like I said (http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/25/supreme-court-no-death-penalty-for-child-rape/) when that SCOTUS decision was handed down, the irony of barring the death penalty for child-rapists due to “evolving standards” is that American society’s become much more sensitive to the psychological damage done to the victims of sexual crimes, especially when the victim is a child. The public’s “evolved” towards a fuller appreciation of the toll taken on the innocent and may, understandably, desire a penalty commensurate with that toll. But it can’t have it, even in a case like this where there’s zero doubt as to guilt or innocence.
So why is the prosecutor in Cleveland talking about death anyway? Because: Under Ohio law, killing a woman’s child when it’s in the womb — if it’s against her wishes — constitutes aggravated murder. Which, apparently, is what Castro did. Five separate times (http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/05/09/what-went-on-in-clevelands-house-of-horrors/):
The police report described a nightmare scenario in which Ms. Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were taken to Mr. Castro’s home and chained in the basement. Although the chains were later removed and they moved upstairs, they were all forced to have sex with Mr. Castro, the women told police.
Ms. Knight told police she had become pregnant five times, with Mr. Castro starving her and punching her in the stomach each time until she miscarried, according to the report.
Ms. Berry told police she had given birth to her daughter, Jocelyn, in a plastic pool. Ms. Knight described delivering the baby and reviving her at one point with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, under threat of death from Mr. Castro if she let the child die, according to the report.
Ms. DeJesus also said she had sex with Mr. Castro, but told police she didn’t think she had become pregnant.
One of the victims’ cousins told the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/us/cleveland-kidnapping.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0) that he would serve them cake on the anniversary of their kidnappings to celebrate their abductions. That’s what we’re dealing with here.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/09/cleveland-kidnapper-may-face-death-penalty-for-beating-pregnant-captive-until-she-miscarried/
Wait,” you say, “can’t he get the death penalty for kidnapping, imprisoning, and raping three girls over and over again (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/09/cleveland-kidnapper-may-face-death-penalty-for-beating-pregnant-captive-until-she-miscarried/#) for 10 years?” Why, no. Our Supreme Court, in its wisdom, decided a few years ago that it would amount to cruel and unusual punishment to give the needle to a degenerate like this “merely” for raping children repeatedly. As a matter of constitutional law, due to society’s “evolving standards of decency,” (http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/07-343.pdf) only a crime that results in death can carry a capital sentence. Which is interesting, because I’d bet (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/09/cleveland-kidnapper-may-face-death-penalty-for-beating-pregnant-captive-until-she-miscarried/#) if you polled Americans today, you’d get upwards of 60-70 percent (and maybe more) to say that it’d be quite decent indeed to kill this guy, and not in a painless way like lethal injection either. Like I said (http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/25/supreme-court-no-death-penalty-for-child-rape/) when that SCOTUS decision was handed down, the irony of barring the death penalty for child-rapists due to “evolving standards” is that American society’s become much more sensitive to the psychological damage done to the victims of sexual crimes, especially when the victim is a child. The public’s “evolved” towards a fuller appreciation of the toll taken on the innocent and may, understandably, desire a penalty commensurate with that toll. But it can’t have it, even in a case like this where there’s zero doubt as to guilt or innocence.
So why is the prosecutor in Cleveland talking about death anyway? Because: Under Ohio law, killing a woman’s child when it’s in the womb — if it’s against her wishes — constitutes aggravated murder. Which, apparently, is what Castro did. Five separate times (http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/05/09/what-went-on-in-clevelands-house-of-horrors/):
The police report described a nightmare scenario in which Ms. Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were taken to Mr. Castro’s home and chained in the basement. Although the chains were later removed and they moved upstairs, they were all forced to have sex with Mr. Castro, the women told police.
Ms. Knight told police she had become pregnant five times, with Mr. Castro starving her and punching her in the stomach each time until she miscarried, according to the report.
Ms. Berry told police she had given birth to her daughter, Jocelyn, in a plastic pool. Ms. Knight described delivering the baby and reviving her at one point with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, under threat of death from Mr. Castro if she let the child die, according to the report.
Ms. DeJesus also said she had sex with Mr. Castro, but told police she didn’t think she had become pregnant.
One of the victims’ cousins told the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/us/cleveland-kidnapping.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0) that he would serve them cake on the anniversary of their kidnappings to celebrate their abductions. That’s what we’re dealing with here.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/09/cleveland-kidnapper-may-face-death-penalty-for-beating-pregnant-captive-until-she-miscarried/