Trans teen's killer gets 99 years
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Alex Blaze
May 13, 2010 1:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/trans_teens_killer_gets_99_years.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/trans_teens_killer_gets_99_years.php)
The man who pled guilty to killing Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado got sentenced to 99 years in prison:
"A man accused of decapitating a gay teenager and burning his body pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Wednesday and was sentenced to 99 years in prison..."
Good... I hope he never sees the light of day and dies a deserving death in prison
Quote from: Virginia Marie on May 13, 2010, 05:48:38 PM
Good... I hope he never sees the light of day and dies a deserving death in prison
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Deserved sentence.
I for one hope he lives a long enough time in prison to really feel the full weight of the experience, have all the time in the world to think about exactly how he got there, realize what he's done, before he dies.
99 years usually leaves the possibility of parole, but it sounds like it would be after a very long time. Besides that, I hope he doesn't leave without internalizing the gravity of his behavior... and he will have plenty of opportunity to think about it.
With that much time on his hands, and others with as little to lose as he does, his sex life is going to be too much of a gay old time and not pleasantly. When his "husband to be" says its going to happen, it will happen. Less than the full 99 years will have an element of justice in them.
Is he gay or/and transsexual? I hate how the news and popular culture either don't understand these terms, or decide to ignore them. That is so sad :( A crime out of total ignorance and hate for no reason. He deserves everyone of those years and more.
the reason why I am against capital punishment is that this thing can suffer.
I hope it hates every second of boredom and rape.
I can't say I condone prison rape. Crime in prison should still be regarded as crime, and ignoring it pretty much says we don't care about reforming such rapists -- in fact, we reward the worst of the worst by letting them practice their "craft" without further repercussions. And besides prison rape functioning as a de facto cruel and unusual punishment (one that many Americans want but will not own up to by making it "official"), you can even get into the territory where the result is even worse than the original crime. Hate-crime murder is quite bad, but violent rape leading to an HIV infection that gradually kills a person (sort of a protracted murder with long-term agony) feels like a step beyond that. It's not to say that there shouldn't be long-term consequences, but those consequences can't distract from the original wrong that was committed.