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Reply Thu 19 Nov, 2009 07:48 pm
HUNTSVILLE, Texas " Robert Lee Thompson has been executed for his part in a fatal Houston store holdup after the Texas governor rejected a parole board's recommendation to spare him because he wasn't the gunman.

Thompson was an accomplice to triggerman Sammy Butler when 29-year-old store clerk Mansoor Bhai Rahim Mohammed was gunned down 13 years ago.

Butler received life in prison. A jury gave 34-year-old Thompson death.

Thompson's lawyer told the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles that Thompson's punishment was not fair and the panel voted 5-2 to recommend his sentence be commuted to life.



 
Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Thu 19 Nov, 2009 08:10 pm
@edgarblythe,
There's not one whole helluva lot in TX that makes much sense, is there?
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Intrepid
 
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Reply Thu 19 Nov, 2009 08:18 pm
Shocked What? Let me see if I understand this correctly. The gunman gets jail time. The fellow who was along for the ride gets death. Is that close to the facts?
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 19 Nov, 2009 08:24 pm
@Intrepid,
That's exactly it.
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Green Witch
 
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Reply Thu 19 Nov, 2009 08:37 pm
Gov. Rick Perry. Another Fundamentalist Conservative pretending to be a Christian. Gives more meaning to the passage "Jesus wept".
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JPB
 
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Reply Thu 19 Nov, 2009 08:46 pm
@edgarblythe,
<shakes head>

They sure do love to kill people in Texas, don't they?
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 03:14 am

I can think of a way
that Mr. Thompson coud have immunized himself from ANY punishment (if its not too radical an idea).
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 05:36 am
@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:


I can think of a way
that Mr. Thompson coud have immunized himself from ANY punishment (if its not too radical an idea).


The thread is not about did he or did he not deserve punishment. Total no brainer. Obviously, he did.
Intrepid
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 07:29 am
@edgarblythe,
At least it didn't include arming the victim with a sub machinegun.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 08:48 am
@edgarblythe,
OmSigDAVID wrote:


I can think of a way
that Mr. Thompson coud have immunized himself from ANY punishment (if its not too radical an idea).


edgarblythe wrote:
The thread is not about did he or did he not deserve punishment. Total no brainer. Obviously, he did.

This information is not a surprise.
REGARDLESS, it is worthy of note
that some of us has gone for years n decades
without robbing stores nor complicity in murder.

Everyone else is safer and better off for his permanent absence.

He had a CHOICE, a voluntary choice, of whether to be a decent guy

OR to go the way he did.
He decided and he lived and died with the consequences of his decision.


Those of us who choose NOT to follow in his footsteps
will NOT bring down such results upon themselves.


THAT is another obvious "no brainer."
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 08:56 am
@Intrepid,
Intrepid wrote:

At least it didn't include arming the victim with a sub machinegun.
Truely, I wonder Y some people take such glee
in the helplessness of victims of violence.

Their voluntary acquiescence in compliance with statutory helplessness cost them their lives,
and u LOVE it.

I am just appalled at victims being helpless.
I want the good guys to win; u support the interests of evil.
Intrepid
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 10:05 am
@OmSigDAVID,
Rambo David wrote:

Quote:
This information is not a surprise.
REGARDLESS, it is worthy of note
that some of us has gone for years n decades
without robbing stores nor complicity in murder.


Some of us have gone for years and decades without carrying or using a gun for any reason.

Not that any of this has anything to do with this thread. Apologies to edgarblythe
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 10:10 am
@Intrepid,
Intrepid wrote:

Rambo David wrote:

Quote:
This information is not a surprise.
REGARDLESS, it is worthy of note
that some of us has gone for years n decades
without robbing stores nor complicity in murder.


Some of us have gone for years and decades without carrying or using a gun for any reason.

Not that any of this has anything to do with this thread. Apologies to edgarblythe
I 've had reason to use mine,
when shot at, incidental to an attempted robbery.

I 'm sure that u don 't care about successful self defense, but I do.
Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 11:42 am
@OmSigDAVID,
May I remind you, David, that edgarblythe started this thread as a discussion about how capital punishment is administered in his home state of Texas, not about the pros and cons of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution?
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 12:16 pm
@Merry Andrew,

May I remind u, Andy, that I have said NOTHING
about the pros nor cons of constitutional judicature ?
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 01:10 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:


I can think of a way
that Mr. Thompson coud have immunized himself from ANY punishment (if its not too radical an idea).


edgarblythe wrote:
The thread is not about did he or did he not deserve punishment. Total no brainer. Obviously, he did.

This information is not a surprise.
REGARDLESS, it is worthy of note
that some of us has gone for years n decades
without robbing stores nor complicity in murder.

Everyone else is safer and better off for his permanent absence.

He had a CHOICE, a voluntary choice, of whether to be a decent guy

OR to go the way he did.
He decided and he lived and died with the consequences of his decision.


Those of us who choose NOT to follow in his footsteps
will NOT bring down such results upon themselves.


THAT is another obvious "no brainer."



off topic
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 01:10 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:

Intrepid wrote:

At least it didn't include arming the victim with a sub machinegun.
Truely, I wonder Y some people take such glee
in the helplessness of victims of violence.

Their voluntary acquiescence in compliance with statutory helplessness cost them their lives,
and u LOVE it.

I am just appalled at victims being helpless.
I want the good guys to win; u support the interests of evil.


off topic
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 01:11 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:

Intrepid wrote:

Rambo David wrote:

Quote:
This information is not a surprise.
REGARDLESS, it is worthy of note
that some of us has gone for years n decades
without robbing stores nor complicity in murder.


Some of us have gone for years and decades without carrying or using a gun for any reason.

Not that any of this has anything to do with this thread. Apologies to edgarblythe
I 've had reason to use mine,
when shot at, incidental to an attempted robbery.

I 'm sure that u don 't care about successful self defense, but I do.


off topic
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 02:23 pm
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:

HUNTSVILLE, Texas " Robert Lee Thompson has been executed for his part in a fatal Houston store holdup after the Texas governor rejected a parole board's recommendation to spare him because he wasn't the gunman.

Too bad. If Thompson had a gun, he could have defended himself.
mysteryman
 
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Reply Fri 20 Nov, 2009 05:59 pm
@Intrepid,
They both should have been executed!!
 

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