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Username: Brelei715
Post Number: 78
Registered: 09-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 04:57 pm: | |
I personally have 2 ideas about it. My first would be yes. I was not even an itch in my daddy's pants when this occurred but I do remember reading on it and the pain was just as fresh as if he was my peer. I always wanted those people to be brought to justice. Never thought I'd live to see the day but i'm sure we all thought the same about the Medgar Evers case. My 2nd opinion would come from an episode of Crossing Jordan that I saw last night. This guy (Keith from Six Feet Under) wanted Jordan to re-open his father's case. His father was killed in front of his door steps 6 weeks before his only childs birth. There was a hung jury twice but the case was open and shut. The mother did not want to proceed because besides not wanting to re-open her old wounds she felt that it wasn't worth it. She said all the other people were dead and the man who SHE SAW do it was old and taking care of his wife who had Alzheimers. She felt that he was already in his own hell. The son did not feel that way. He wanted to proceed and he found that the doctor who proformed the autopsy 40 year ago had left a bullet in his father just in case the day of justice had come. The funeral director used like 3 times the amount of embalming fluid so the man was exactly the same 40 years later just in case the day of justice had come. And the old judge, he kept the gun just in case that day should come. Anyway to make a long story short they found all the evidence they needed to convict this guy but the mother felt it was not needed, she said if the man would just come aplogize that would do her fine. That comment made me realize that sometimes you have to look at things from all perspectives. what justice if any will emmitt tills mother/family gain from this? How healthy are these people? Will we really gain or make any type of statements by locking up 6 old decrepid {sp} dying men? Yes we may say, that's what ya'll get, old bastards but what will be gained? Is it worth it?
Now before ya'll start blowing up, I did not say ye or ne, just what ifs. |