Corsair the Rational Pirate

For all the death penalty opponents out there, justify letting this piece of garbage live:

Harrel Franklin Braddy dumped a little girl in the Everglades nine years ago to get chewed up by alligators.

On Monday, a Miami-Dade judge sentenced Braddy to die for it.

''The defendant . . . caused this 5-year-old to die, alone in the wilderness, and to be mutilated by monsters of the swamp,'' Circuit Judge Leonard E. Glick wrote in his sentencing order. ``Adults are supposed to protect children from monsters; they are not supposed to be the monsters themselves.''

Braddy, 58, was convicted in July for the November 1998 killing of Quatisha Maycock.

The child was found dead in the Everglades with alligator bite marks on her head and stomach and her left arm severed. The medical examiner testified that the girl was still alive when one or more alligators bit her.

Can you imagine anything worse for a little five-year old girl? Being eaten alive by an aligator!?! What the hell? This isn't some bad 007 movie!

Easy and quick result for the accused: turn it into a James Bond movie and throw this piece of shit in a big pit full of hungy gators. But don't leave the door open and make sure you stay in the area until the the gators have had their fill so Mr. Five-year Old Killer doesn't get a chance to escape.

I think I would pay to watch that.

But what is up with this juror:

Prosecutors argued for a death sentence during the penalty phase of Braddy's trial. Assistant State Attorney Abbe Rifkin told jurors about Braddy's criminal history, which included convictions for robbery, kidnapping and trying to kill a corrections officer by choking him.

The jurors in August voted 11-1 for the death penalty. Braddy showed no reaction when the decision was announced.

11-1? What they hell was wrong with the 1? If you agree to serve on a jury in a possible death penalty case you have to agree to being open to possibility of send this guy to the needle. What mitigating circumstances could juror 1 possibly have seen to not vote to kill this creep? Possible jury nullification attempt? Possible too stupid to tie own shoes?

posted by corsair the rational pirate at 08:35

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