From the Jsonline: According to the complaint:
Laster, Barnes and Brittney Robertson went to a duplex in the 800 block of S. 12th St. early Friday to rob Robertson's roommate, Rachel Thompson, but wound up killing Thompson and two of her sons.
Robertson also told a friend after the killings that she hated Thompson because the two women had been in a relationship with the same man.
After the three entered the upper-level apartment, Torian Thompson-Carter, 4, was attacked first. The boy's hands were tied with duct tape, and a plastic bag was placed over his head.
Then three-year-old Jaden Thompson-Carter's hands were taped and a bag was put over his head. Robertson stabbed him in the neck, Barnes told investigators.
A description of Jaden's autopsy included in the complaint says he died of asphyxiation and does not indicate he was stabbed.
Robertson stabbed Thompson, 23, multiple times until the knife's handle broke off, the complaint says. Robertson then used a second knife until it broke.
Barnes fired a shot at Thompson but was not sure if the bullet struck her.
Robertson, Laster and Barnes took Thompson's youngest child, 6-week-old Maurice Visor, and left the duplex after using lighter fluid to set a fire to cover up the homicides.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/86424367.html
Being from Wisconsin, and with most of my family still there, I am just amazed by the backward thinking of Wisconsin. There have been many gruesome killings, like Ed Gein and Jeffery Dahmer.
These thugs don't deserve to live. The State of Wisconsin should not have to spend money to house them and let them watch TV, receive mail, have visitors or hanging with their thug brothers in jail.
Nope, let them enjoy life.
Sunrise — 7:01.
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It costs more to impose the death penalty than to keep someone in prison for life (because the condemned must be allowed every opportunity to appeal). So, Wisconsin would spend more money with a death penalty than it does without one. Dahmer would have survived longer on death row than he did in the general prison population. He would have been kept in isolation, not allowed on a cleaning detail with two fellow murderers. I think our system is more practical.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you that it does cost more, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet.
ReplyDeleteAs for Dahmer, yes, he died a lot quicker in prison, which is a good thing and I think the other guy Anderson (?) probbly would have received the death penalty as well.
But there are many others, less famous, who not get the same treatment Dahmer got and will live a long time in prison.