While the liberals are yelling and screaming about the executionin Georgia, they ar emostly quiet about a second execution in Texas.
One murder involves a cop and the other involves a gay man, James Byrd, in Texas. Guess which side the liberals are on? Of course, the cop killer. The killer of a black man, they couldn't care less about.
The Texas case: White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.
Byrd, 49, was chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road in one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent Texas history.
Brewer, 44, was asked if he had any final words, to which he replied: "No. I have no final statement."
A single tear hung on the edge of his right eye.
He was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., 10 minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing into his arms, both covered with intricate black tattoos.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/White-supremacist-executed-for-Texas-dragging-2180240.php
No liberal protesters were reported at that death row prison.
Could it be that the liberals are being just a bunch of hypocrites?
Umm, yeah.
Cop killer- good person, let's protest.
Killer of gay black man- bad and we don't care.
Liberalism is a disease.
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If both men were guilty, I don't care.
ReplyDeleteBut there ARE levels to crimes. Manslaughter, Murder I, etc. The killing of Byrd was about as nasty as another human can get to another. Byrd was alive for most of the dragging, eventually losing his arm and his HEAD.
The crimes both resulted in death. They are NOT however comparable.
The protests over Davis had little to do with the victim or the crime. They had to do with whether or not Davis was guilty. SEVEN of the nine witnesses recanted? I understand why this was a controversy.
I really don't think the protests had anything to do with the race or sexuality of anyone involved. I see the parallels you're trying to draw, and I'd agree if the protests were exclusively about the death penalty ALWAYS being wrong. Unless I misunderstand it, that wasn't the case.
By the way, Dan, I can't find anything anywhere that says James Byrd, Jr. was GAY. Where did you find that?
ReplyDeleteYour right, Jamie, I think I confused this murder with another murder and I will change it.
ReplyDeleteMy apolgies for my mistake.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the two cases is that in Texas, the victim's family plead for the killer NOT to get the death penalty. In Georgia, the victims' family plead FOR it.
ReplyDeleteWatch the Lawrence O'Donnell clip I put on my blog. It is a good answer to your question of why the Texas execution didn't get treated the same way. You might not agree with it, but it IS a fairly extensive answer.
Maybe in Texas, at the trial, the family said they didn't want the death penalty but at the execution, they were quite happy and said justice was served.
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