An emotional Menino speaks out on slaying
I don't want to turn this into a DP/no DP discussion, so I'll withhold comment on his thoughts on the death penalty. The part that I agree with comes up later in the article:Mayor Thomas M. Menino has grappled publicly with the brutal killing earlier this month of a pizza deliveryman whose two daughters worked in his office at City Hall.
Last week, during a talk with students at Emerson College, Menino spoke again in deeply personal terms. Asked by a student about the death penalty for the three young people accused of the crime, Menino gave a thoughtful 60-second answer about why he believes capital punishment is inherently unfair and targets the poor. Then the mayor’s serious tone took a turn.
“I’d do some things that would be worse than the death penalty,’’ Menino continued, eliciting more quiet laughter from the students. “Because it wouldn’t happen in a second. I would slowly torture them.’’You go Mumbles. Get down with your bad Sicilian self. Now, I'm certain that once his horrified handlers realize exactly what he's said, the spin and damage control will be out in full force and he will humbly retract and apologize for these words. But for now, it captures the raw emotion running through the city in the wake of such an absolutely senseless crime. A man working three jobs to provide for his family was called to a vacant building, then stabbed to death for the $100 he had on him.
$100. He was murdered in cold blood for $100. They knew ahead of time that they were going to kill whoever rang that doorbell. They knew it would be a pizza delivery guy, and had to have some idea that he would not be carrying a lot of money. Yet these pieces of shit planned to murder someone for the few dollars they had on them, regardless of who showed up, regardless of the devastation that the murder would cause. Because of their depraved indifference to human life, a fellow human being who wanted nothing more than to live his life and provide for his family is dead. For a hundred bucks they brutally murdered someone's father, someone's husband, someone's caretaker, someone's loved one.
People like this are the reason I carry a gun.
That is all.
5 comments:
Well said, Jay. Well said.
Death by gunfire is too good for those wastes of skin and organs.
They should get the death penalty
Of course, he recanted, though!!
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/09/menino_now_regr.html?p1=News_links
We had a similar case in Omaha recently: pizza man stabbed to death for less than 30 bucks..... premeditated murder for less money than is in the change bucket on my dryer. I have long been a proponent of the death penalty, but I would settle for life at HARD, dangerous labor in some inhospitable location- logging in Alaska, or manual (w/ "git down" tools:pick and shovel) underground coal mining somewhere. Bring back the chain gangs.
Would have been nice if Mumbles, Co-Chair of Mayors against *all* guns, would have allowed this Pizza man the right to carry a gun as he delivered in dangerous neighborhoods.
Some of this blood is on Mumble's hands.
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