Houston and the world at large are a better place following Tuesday’s execution of Peter Cantu, the 3rd gangbanger to be euthanized for the horrific north Houston gang rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in 1993. Cantu was found to have exhorted the other ‘bangers to kill the girls after the sexual…
Category: Death Penalty
This is Why the Death Penalty is a Good Idea
The Houston Chronicle’s Anita Hassan writes: A 4-year-old girl was shot to death in the parking lot of a north Houston apartment complex in an apparent carjacking Sunday afternoon, police said. Police are still investigating the killing at 1351 Greens Parkway. A suspect armed with a semiautomatic weapon approached the father, demanding the car keys,…
Leftist Relativism Inconsistent, Childish
At TalkLeft, TChris provides a textbook case of all that’s wrong with the far left’s moral relativism in this post about Saudi Arabia’s new death penalty crime – showing Turkish soap operas during Ramadan. [Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Judicial Council, Sheikh Saleh al-] Lohaidan advised the station owners that “those who promote corruption in belief and…
Guns and Grief
The thick, bittersweet irony of the Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down Washington D.C.’s ban on "live" guns is that is has the left-wing, anti-gun gang completely up in arms. Robert Stein calls the mind set behind the decision "our national schizophrenia", then proceeds to demonstrate how utterly clueless an obviously intelligent man can be…
5 Blind Mice, See How They Vote
The Supreme Court botched another important case today by disallowing the Louisiana law that allowed the death penalty to be administered to child rapists. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said there was “a distinction between intentional first-degree murder on the one hand and non-homicide crimes against individual persons,” even such “devastating” crimes…
Ertman & Pena’s Killer To Finally Die
The horrifying murder of Jenny Ertman and Elizabeth Pena was my welcome home to Houston after living in Oregon for several years. I remember the case like it was yesterday because their brutal, gang-related rape and strangulation happened only a short distance from where I worked at the time. Now, after nearly 15 years of…
Texas Killer’s Death Sentence Upheld
In 1991, Kenneth Wayne Morris, a 9th grade dropout who is now 37, killed James Moody Adams, co-founder of the Northwest Academy while while his wife, Marcene, hid in a closet. Yesterday Morris’ attempt to have himself declared too mentally retarded to be executed was rejected by the Supreme Court. This ruling, coupled with the…
SCOTUS to Halt Executions?
The NY Times says: Moments before a Mississippi prisoner was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court granted him a stay of execution and thus gave a nearly indisputable indication that a majority intends to block all executions until the court decides a lethal injection case from Kentucky next spring. ……
Womb-theft Killer Guilty, Death Penalty Next?
The Houston Chronicle reports: Jurors convicted Lisa Montgomery, 39, of kidnapping resulting in death in the 2004 attack on 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. The jury deliberated for about four hours before rejecting Montgomery’s insanity defense. … Defense attorneys claimed Montgomery was suffering from pseudocyesis, which causes a woman…
Newark Executions
Earlier this week in Newark, 3 college students were executed in a neighborhood schoolyard. Another student was shot was through the back of the head, escaping death by fractions of an inch. Killed in the attack were Terrance Aeriel, 18, Dashon Harvey, 20 and Iofemi Hightower, 20. Aeriel’s 19-year-old sister was wounded and is expected…