Congratulations To The Citizens Of New Jersey
You will now be paying for the care and feeding of 46-year-old Jesse Timmendequas for the rest of his natural life.
You may remember Jesse Timmendequas as being the guy who raped and killed 7-year-old Megan Kanka back in 1994.
Jesse Timmendequas lured Megan Kanka to his house by saying that he wanted to show her a puppy. Like most little girls, Megan loved puppies and followed this man (who had been convicted twice before of sexual crimes to both a 7-year-old and a 5-year-old girl) to his house, where she was raped, beaten, and strangled to death with a belt.
The next day, Jesse told police what he had done and led them to Megan’s body.
Megan’s death, which was highly publicized, resulted in “Megan’s Law,” which requires that authorities notify neighborhoods when sexual offenders move into that area.
Well, you’ll be pleased to know that New Jersey’s elected officials have decided to make official the state’s unofficial ban on the death penalty. Your Governor, Jon Corzine, has commuted the death sentences on eight men who had been sitting on your state’s death row.
Jon Corzine had this to say:
It’s a day of progress for the state of New Jersey and for the millions of people across our nation and around the globe who reject the death penalty as a moral or practical response to the grievous, even heinous, crime of murder.
Government cannot provide a fool-proof death penalty that precludes the possibility of executing the innocent.
Society must ask, ‘is it not morally superior to imprison 100 people for life than it is to execute all 100 when it’s probable we execute an innocent?’
As a result of Governor Jon Corzine’s moral crusade, New Jersey has joined 14 other states that have ignored the will of the people.
Considering that approximately 66% of North America’s population supports the use of the death penalty and only 27% of the population wants it done away with, it’s always nice to know that serious societal issues can be solved by a chosen few who manage to claw and scrape their way through the corrupted, festering sore which is the New Jersey government, who salve their troubled consciences by pushing through a bill that was – I’m sure – popular at liberal fundraiser parties.
So again, citizens of New Jersey – congratulations on your giant leap towards morally superior law.
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Just put him in general population. The other inmates will take care of the problem and ensure we don’t have to support this scumbag.
New Jersey’s governor seems more concerned about the plight of the worst criminals rather than that of America’s finest and bravest. Scum like this poses a danger to our police, guards and lesser criminals. The food that this scum eats, resources it uses should go to our country’s returning troops or better yet to those who lost a father, mother, husband or wife!
that’s really what should happen. put these scum bags into the general population of the prisions. There’d be no such thing as death row.
I agree Kdog an Brittany.. There should be no more Protective Custody for these pieces of shit, if you have raped someone, that should not even be an option to be in PC. Why are they being proteted when most of these children weren’t. I have no sympathy for someone who has raped a kid because in my eyes that is the lowest of the low… If this dude gets out I hope he runs into a crazy ass vigilante- STREET JUSTICE!!!
oh he will i’m sure.
How can people NOT support the death penalty? Sometimes I am blown away by how retarded people can be. I’m a liberal minded individual, but shit even I can see the benefit of killing all of these people. This guy took the life of an innocent child, ADMITTED IT, and they want to worry about executing an “innocent man”? That is the whole point of the judicial process, to mete out every case beyond “the shadow of a doubt” guilty is guilty man…especially in this day and age with forensic science being what it is.
Personally I think that people / scum that commit crimes like this should be tortured. Turn the scum over to victim’s family for ten to twenty days and say you can do anything you want to them but not kill them. Then let them get better from the savage beating, scalding, cutting, branding, ripping given by the grieving family, then ask the scum do you want, to be put in prison for life or hanged. What ever they choose do the opposite, and yes if put in prison they should be put in general population if hanging is selected make the rope a bit too long the first couple times so they don’t die an easy death.
If this offends anyone, feel free to go fuck your self’s
*claps* Bravo.
Seems Governor Corzine was sleeping in his math class.
Let’s refresh-
100 people on death row. One possibly innocent.
Argument being that it’s better to allow 99 people to keep living, get fed, have prison social lives, and the security of never having to work for their own food or take care of their families… so that one hypothetically innocent person does not get executed?
And this is called logic? In my estimation, there are at least 100 innocent people involved here- the innocent victims these POS killed. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They just had bad luck. Since most POS don’t just abuse/kill one person, those 99 people may be responsible for even more innocent people being hurt/killed.
So, if you are going to be erring on the side of the ‘innocent’ people involved, one innocent death row inmate vs at least 100 innocent dead people… it’s pretty clear you should side with supporting the DP. It would suck to be that supposed innocent DRI that got executed, but how is that any different from any of the other victims? They obviously were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, or perhaps are actually guilty anyway.
Pandering to a large number of people who have harmed just to prevent harm to one person isn’t very logical.
The whole thing is laughable, considering how much it costs to house DRIs, and provide them with free appeal lawyering, and how many years they fuck the system before they actually get killed. How many people are on death row currently, how long have they been there, and what percent of DRI have actually been executed anyway? How many proven innocent people have actually ever been executed? I would also like to know how many DRIs have DNA evidence against them, and how many have agreed to and/or passed polygraphs.
The way DNA is scientifically advancing, plus the massive number of years the DRIs just sit there…. they have plenty of time to get evidence to clear themselves. Such as the case where the someone raped a girl and her grandmother, killed the grandma, and the girl’s uncle was sentenced to death. It took a few years to get DNA evidence to clear him, but he was eventually cleared. At the very least, how could anyone object to at least having all the DRIs who have DNA evidence against them getting the quick fry? Let them have only ONE appeal, then flip the switch?
The death penalty is a joke, in that there is no set time period for it to be administered. Getting the DS is pretty much the same as getting LIP the way things are set up. Exactly what is the average amount of time a POS sits on DR until they are executed?
Math is one of my biggest weaknesses, and still, even I can see that the 99/1 ratio is not logical as a factor regarding the DP.
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If this POS is alive in 30 or 40 years he will most likely get out because he is “too frail for jail”
So watch out when it’s lights out in the nursing home. Who will protect the paralized? I am sure when he is 80 or so he’ll get his kicks on the young chicks in rehab – the ones who can not fight back…..
fuck corzine and his dumb ass decision. i’m a proud jersey girl, born and raised but this shames me. i’m tired of these nasty pedophiles getting 2,3, and 100 chances to destroy innocent childrens’ lives, and sick of my tax dollars paying for them to eat 3 squares a day, watch cable tv, and live leisurely when there’s plenty of law abiding, hardworking people who don’t even get to enjoy those things! just kill their asses the first time. one strike you’re out. children are too precious to keep allowing thses things to hapen to them. all these politicians want to protect these killers, but who protects the children?
maybe that liberal douch bag that runs NJ will change his mind if any of his kids were raped and killed. I hope that never happens. But a change of hart comes for an act violence.
NJ has a new gov now. Lets see what happens now that the people have a voice.