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Live and Learn: JonBenet Ramsey and the Death Penalty.

Society & Culture  (tags: crime, usa, murder )

Michael
- 81 days ago - slate.com
It's amazing how much you can learn years later about evidence that's been right under your nose all along.
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charles mclachlan (628)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 12:20 am
noted thanks michael
 

ROBIN M. (193)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 2:56 am
if every one had to give a sample of their dna at birth they would have known this a long time a go people say in invades their privacy but only if they do a crime. you do a crime you pay the time if you don't do any thing wrong you don't have any thing to worry about. you would catch a lot of crooks and murderers that way
 

Jaylena O. (248)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 6:02 am
Makes sense to me Robin..Michael thanks for the e mail..noted
 

Joycey B. (514)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 6:49 am
I wish her Mother was alive to know this. What agony her parents went through and all for nothing. Thanks Michael.
 

Tim Redfern (473)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 5:58 pm
Viscerally, I support the death penalty. I think there's such a thing as deserving to die. But our pattern of discovering evidence right under our noses long after the fact should humble us about killing people. Do you think "touch DNA" is the last technology we'll discover in criminal forensics? How confident are you that none of the 1,100 people we've executed will end up being exonerated by a technology we didn't use or possess at the time?

I must respectfully disagree with this writer:
No one "deserves to die", especially not by the
death penalty. To me, Capital Punishment is the
Government killing people who kill people in order
to demonstrate that killing people is wrong.
In other words, two wrongs don't make a right.

Thanks, Michael.
noted.
 

Clever Pseudonym (178)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 9:54 pm
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
Gandhi
 

Mary Zoglio (171)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 10:14 pm
it is ashame her mom did not live long enought to hear she was cleared,noted and thanks
 

Sabrina Suhaili (0)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 10:39 pm
Noted..I support the death penalty. And hope our technology can realy help
alot..
 

Kathy W. (179)
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 11:00 pm
Such a shame it took so long for this information. Hope now they can do what they can to find the one who actually did this horrific act to Jon Benet. Thanks Michael.
 

Bronwyn H. (137)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 12:21 am
Noted with thanks Michael.The anguish her parents went through would have contributed to her Mother's early death.

 

Sandra M Z. (94)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 10:47 am
Agree with Tim, I'm against the death penalty, against killing people! Some horrific crimes would seem to deserve it, but then we are as guilty as that perp was. We have to change our ways so no one has a need to kill anyone. Everyone with mental illness' need help, we must help them. Everyone needs food, water, love and personal responsibility. With these alone, much crime and death would cease quickly IMHO.

The whole investigations was botched from the get~go. We saw it here on the news daily for years, and the Enquirer kept it front page at the grocery store also. I also feel sad that Patsy Ramsey didn't live to hear this evidence, live to be exonerated in the public's eye. The stress level she lived under, who could imagine?

Noted, Michael, thank you.
 

Sandy V. (41)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 10:57 am
What a shame this family had to live the way they did and no one solved this murder. I can't imagine if this were my child. I do blame some of it on the family for the way they acted. Blame the police for sloppy, insane police "work", blame the press. My God this child is still dead and no on help accountable due to human error. God bless her soul and her Mothers and peace, finally to the family. Now catch the SOB
 

Michael C. (220)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 11:53 am
I'm so upset at how the Boulder police department(and DA Alex Hunter) botched this whole case.
 

Debra L. (0)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 1:01 pm

Jon Benet certainly did not deserve to die so why should we have mercy
on the killer? If we had the death penalty maybe we would have less murders.
Who knows, but I don't think anyone deserves to breath,eat or do anything
that they have taken from someone else, especially this young child who's life was cut short.Why should taxpayers have to support their time behind bars.
 

Debra L. (0)
Thursday July 24, 2008, 1:02 pm

Jon Benet certainly did not deserve to die so why should we have mercy
on the killer? If we had the death penalty maybe we would have less murders.
Who knows, but I don't think anyone deserves to breath,eat or do anything
that they have taken from someone else, especially this young child who's life was cut short.Why should taxpayers have to support their time behind bars.
 

Cissy BlackKitty (596)
Monday July 28, 2008, 6:02 am
I'm against death penalty. It's illegal in all European countries and for a good reason. What happened to JonBenet was horrible, and I found out whoever did it and put him behind bars.

I also have to add that I'm very much against all these child beauty queens. It's dreadful, little kids tarted up to look much older than they are. No wonder some pervert got ideas!
 

Cissy BlackKitty (596)
Monday July 28, 2008, 6:03 am
Correction: I didn't find out, I meant I hope they find out and put him behind bars. I guess that was a Freudian slip, re: the parents dressing the poor kid up like that, parading her on stages and making her miss a proper childhood.
 

Edward H. (11)
Monday July 28, 2008, 7:25 am
First, Robin M., I agree. Finger prints and DNA samples from everyone would solve/bring to justice/closure a LOT of cases.

Second, I am 100% for the death penalty.

Third, and this is because ALL of the facts haven't been determined, how do we know the parents were not still in on it? It just means there may have been a third party involved in the disposal of the body.
 

Michael C. (220)
Monday July 28, 2008, 12:29 pm
I'm against the death penalty and one reason I am is because the justice system makes way too many mistakes for such a punishment to be in place.

In either case it'll be next to impossible to find an unbiased jury to convict even if they do find another suspect. It's sad because this little girl didn't even get a chance to enjoy life. But God will find the killer and finally give justice to this little girl.
 
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