OT: Boy oh Boise, there be some sick bastards in Idaho.

I'm debating whether or not I should go to sleep now that I've read that...

Dude should locked in a cell with nothing but a gun and a single bullet. Door doesn't open till he's either killed himself or starved to death.

yeah, that's pretty disturbing. He should be raped with a sword.

Damn potato lovers.

You guys are missing the point. What the guy did is {censored}ed up, but we deal with that every day. What's {censored}ed up is that the guy pleaded guilty. Yet the prosecutor felt it necessary to show in the courtroom a video the guy made of him raping the boy, torturing him, and eventually killing him. The Father of the boy asked the court not to show it, and when that was denied, asked that it not be shown in public. The judge denied that too. So the jury and the spectators got to see this {censored}er torture, rape and kill this boy. Can you imagine how the Father felt, watching all these sick bastards viewing his boy like that? What about jurors? I'd probably never sleep a solid night for the rest of my life after that. And was it even necessary?

With a guilty plea, no. The crime alone was justification enough for the death penalty. They could simply have had an expert witness view the video and describe to the court what it contained, without it being too disturbing.

The prosecutor AND the judge need to have their asses canned over this. And those sick {censored}ers who sat and watched the video... I hope they never sleep because of it.

is not just Idaho, Happens ALL OVER the USA and the world. In Florida, if you are sentenced to death, the defendants legal costs are covered by the state with public defenders (they can pay more for better consel)

Plus will spend at least ten years with three square meals a day with minimal health care (ER services, any medications they need, basic hygine needs etc.) Until he uses up his right to three appeals. I have seen the state pay for cancer/heart surgeries, insulins/ heart medicines and mental health services. They still have basic civil rights and must be of sound mind and body before they are executed.

Until they lose their appeals and the sentence is carried out, they are still entitled to cetain rights, proper living conditions and same access to health care as one would find on the street. This is in response to old days of prison abuse and neglect where many people imprisoned were treated worse than slaves. Now we have kindler, gentler prisons where ALL people have constitutional rights. IS a sick system all the way around....

He pleaded guilty. No appeals.

Damn dude... I am coming down enough to grasp this... That is really {censored}ty... Sometimes law folks {censored} up big. I hear a bunch of these stories cheese, and they all suck.

No. What's {censored}ed up about this case is "Duncan, a convicted pedophile . . . "

This guy was out. "Cured," no doubt, in the eyes of psychiatric professionals. "Paid his debt to society," too.

When will we ever learn?

That {censored} happens all the {censored}ing time. It's sop. But what the court did with that video was entirely preventable.

Death Penalty cases are automatically appealed. But at this juncture, the video was pointless. Sick twisted curiosity by the judge?

Don't know about anywhere else... but in Florida, if you plead guilty, no appeals. Ask Danny Rawling.

maybe just trying to make the death penalty stick. I know if I was a juror and I saw that {censored}... done. That dude is {censored}ed.

fixed

I agree. There's no reason to show that video. If the video hadn't existed would it have changed anything? Sick.

That's all kinds of {censored}ed Up.

That poor kid that survived, damn I wish I hadn't read that. Truth is way more disturbing than fiction.. Most horror films aren't as disturbing as that. WTF man???!!!!!

Cases involving the death penalty are heard directly and automatically by the Florida Supreme Court.

Rawlings motion for appeal was denied because he pleaded guilty and waved his right to an appeal. Big news here when it happened.

It's spelt Rollings. He was on the floor on I was on when I worked death row. Yes was because he waived his appeals. Seemed like a mild mannered school teacher...except for when he would show me the pictures he drew that looked like the Iron Maiden covers or asked me if total anarchy was taking over the streets with the terrorist stuff.

I never had any problems with him. He liked the attention and news he got but there were 82 others like him on that same floor and there are four floors in that building. Another prison holds even more. Death row is easy to work. Almost no inmates give you any problems, they're too busy or scared trying to get their case overturned or have been down so long to want to fight. The pain in the asses are the punks that have two to five years and think they're bulletproof and won't be back.

Yeah, Rallings thought by saving the state some money, that they'd go easy on him and give him life.