A couple of weeks back a police office was killed in my town. He was 30 years old. He pulled over a guy for speeding and when he approached the car the drive shot the office once in the mouth severing his spine. Then the drive fired 4 more shots after the office hit the ground. The drive was captured a few days later and after several days in the hospital the office died. I think this punk that murder an office should be put to death! I am so outraged! His guys murdered his girlfriend in the 90s and was out after 6 years! What is going on in our country when killers are set free? Do you all agree that this monster deserves the death penalty?
2006-10-10 09:28:21 · 25 answers · asked by bamagrits84 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I would just like to say that I don't support death for this killer just because he killed a cop. i support it because he is a killer period. He has taken the lives of two people, and been a suspect in gang shootings. His life, in my opinion, is not longer worth the space he takes up.
2006-10-10 09:43:00 · update #1
September 28, 2006 - Officer Keith Houts of the Montgomery Police Department was shot in the face during a traffic stop. The bullet severed his spine. He was then shot 4 times in the vest. He died in the hospital September 30, 2006 from his injuries. Keith was a good man and a good officer. We will miss him.
The shooter, Mario Woodward, was captured in Georgia on September 29, 2006. He has been extradited back to Alabama to face trial for Capital Murder. When convicted, and he will be with the amount of evidence we have against him, he will be facing death by lethal injection, and will unfortunately sit on death row for 10+ years before being executed.
Mario Woodward was convicted in 1990 of manslaughter for killing his girlfriend, and he served 6 years of a 14 year sentence. In 2002, he was arrested and charged with Murder for his involvement in a drive-by shooting. The Grand Jury did not feel there was sufficient evidence, and he was not indicted on that charge. He has also been a suspect on other shootings, at least one of which ended in the death of the victim. When he killed Officer Houts, Woodward was wanted on felony drug charges.
Mario Woodward will very rightly received the death penalty for murdering Officer Keith Houts. Murder of a police officer is one of many instances where the a Murder charge becomes Capital Murder in the state of Alabama, which carries the death penalty. When a person commits murder during the commission of any major felony, such as kidnapping, robbery, rape, arson, etc.; murder for pecuniary gain or murder for hire; murder of any current or former public official when it is done due to that person's position; murder of a subpoenaed victim or witness; murder when the murderer has been convicted of murder within the last 20 years; murder of a police officer; murder using a deadly weapon fired into or out of a vehicle or building; and murder of a child under age 14 are all capital offenses.
Murder of a Police Officer is only one of many types of murder that carries the death penalty in the state of Alabama, and this bastard deserves that needle in his arm.
2006-10-10 21:06:26 · answer #1 · answered by RJ 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Death
2006-10-10 09:29:45 · answer #2 · answered by spyderman131 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, you are so accurate. Some of these people should be locked for the rest of their lives in Mental Institutions, and after this punk *** killed a girl previously, then they let him go ?? What has happened to our prison judges? They let these killers back out onto the streets. Our laws need to get tougher and our parol boards need to tighten the freedom bell. The death penalty should be stepped up. Not wait 20 years for it to happen. It should be carried out after one year of time served. That is why so many of these *** wipes do it time and time again. They know they will not get fried. You are 100% accurate. The people better step up and contest . Our country is loosing control to the worse of the worse.
2006-10-10 09:36:56 · answer #3 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The punishment in the specific scenario mentioned should be death (and in my opinion, a tortuous, painful one, although no state law is going to allow that and they'd never uphold the punishment under the Constitution, anyway).
As for the question in general - I think the punishment for any cold-blooded killer should be equivalent, regardless of whether the person they killed was an officer in the line of duty or otherwise. If anything, and officer in the line of duty has chosen a profession they know puts them in harm's way, whereas an innocent citizen who is murdered may have no clue that they've walked into a dangerous situation.
2006-10-10 11:31:02 · answer #4 · answered by JenV 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
YES!! Anyone who kills a police officer should automatically get the death penalty!! The same thing happened here. An officer was killed while doing a traffic stop but in this case the murderer got his because SWAT shot him 68 times. The officer had 3 young children all under 12 years of age.
2006-10-10 09:33:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Cop killers in many cases get stiffer sentences using fact murdering a police officer is homicide in the 1st degree. It does not recommend that state legislators evaluate regulation enforcement brokers extra helpful. this is meant to be a deterrent to killing cops.
2016-10-19 04:00:32 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I agree. Murderers deserve the death penalty. However, it is not more heinous simply it was an officer. Actually, the civilian girl that he murdered in the 90s should have been his express lane to the chamber. Don't get me wrong, it is very tragic to lose a member of law enforcement, however, they know that any routine stop can have devastating results. Yet, they continue their job. These people have honor, they chose an honorable career. But, we should not have favoritism in our society that makes it tolerable to murder, whether civilian or otherwise.
2006-10-10 09:39:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I agree with peri. However, it's not going to ever be that way, since killing a law enforcement officer is tantamount to a direct attack on the state, and thus must be dealt with much more severely than any other murder, which is merely an attack on another person and society in general. Makes you wonder how free we really are.
2006-10-10 09:34:30 · answer #8 · answered by ADCS 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
...i don't agree that everyone deserves a death penalty for killing a person...the reason for the murder is different for every person, and in some cases it isn't justified for the person to get a death sentence for a murder. i believe the punishment should be about 10 years in jail. now, if the person killed 2 or more people, that's another story...
2006-10-10 09:38:33 · answer #9 · answered by Just_A_Boy 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In this case the death penalty might be appropriate, but it should not be an automatic sentence for someone who kills a cop. Especially with four am no knock warrants causing people to think their homes are being burglarized. This even happens at the wrong addresses sometimes. The police know they are taking a chance by doing this, and should expect accidents to occur sometimes---and they don't get the death penalty for 'accidentally' killing the wrong person, do they?
2006-10-10 09:37:10 · answer #10 · answered by DJ 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋