Wow Intense Bicycle Accident

[ROBsS4R]

Wow

That photo makes me sick to my stomach 

[oldjackbob]

From the article, he admitted to using cocaine before the accident.

Sounds like death penalty material to me.

I am no lawster, but if the same incident happened in this country, and the driver was American, would American law call for (or allow) the death penalty? It could be argued that the driver never intended to kill anyone...he was just drunk / stoned.  And absent intent, is the death penalty justified? If so, then INTENTIONAL murder should ALWAYS get the death penalty, and it doesn't.

Not that I don't want to see him punished. I too ride a bicycle...I have 67,000 miles on my current ride, a '92 Tommasini (all Italian). That picture makes me cry. I see bodies flying through the air, athletes who may never walk again, let alone ride.

And not that I'm at all saying I'm anti-death-penalty. I'm just saying that a penalty of death could possibly be misapplied in this particular case, IMO.

Just my $.02, of course.

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[abby normal]

no death penalty in mexico.

but he can look forward to a long and intense life as somebody's biotch.

[Jobu]

according to reports, this guy is an american citizen, was drunk AND asleep.

i'm not a violent person, but i would personally work this guy over with a bat ... just
enough so the message is painful and permanent.

From the article, he admitted to using cocaine before the accident.

Sounds like death penalty material to me.

It does says he used coke.  Where does it say he was asleep?

If you're on cocaine, then you don't go to sleep.

[Kyna]

I am no lawster, but if the same incident happened in this country, and the driver was American, would American law call for (or allow) the death penalty? It could be argued that the driver never intended to kill anyone...he was just drunk / stoned.  And absent intent, is the death penalty justified? If so, then INTENTIONAL murder should ALWAYS get the death penalty, and it doesn't.

Not all states have the death penalty - so it would depend on where in the the US this took place.  Even in states with the death penalty a prosecutor isn't required to seek it for sentencing.  Also, while he didn't intent to kill anyone he did intend to drive under the influence.  I'm not a criminal lawyer - just my thoughts.

[gojira]

That is just make the beast with two backsed up.   

I am no lawster, but if the same incident happened in this country, and the driver was American, would American law call for (or allow) the death penalty? It could be argued that the driver never intended to kill anyone...he was just drunk / stoned.  And absent intent, is the death penalty justified? If so, then INTENTIONAL murder should ALWAYS get the death penalty, and it doesn't.

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Why send them to hell right away with a death sentence and execution when the convicted would face two hells in a life sentence without any chance for parole ... one during time in prison intimately knowing fellow prisonmates, and then after he/she dies?

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