Bookmark: Security Tapes

[jackofallgeeks]

Here's another Update on Amanda's story... I'm just bookmarking it for myself, to come back to later.

Comments

[surichan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this. I got a slightly different version of the story, with the security photos shown very large and clearly. This version may be better, though, because until now I didn't know Amanda and Johnnie had been robbed. I had figured it was perhaps gang-related, some punk just "making their bones".

Not that, y'know, the fact that my friend was murdered for a few dollars in her wallet (she was not a well-to-do girl) makes me feel any better.

I just hope somebody recognizes the scumfuck from those pictures and that he's found. I find it strangely fitting in this case that it happens to be Texas this all is happening in - the state that is the biggest proponant of the death penalty. I think it's more than this creep deserves.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

More than he deserves? Either you misspoke (unlikely), or you wish this beast a Fate Worse Than Death.

I thought for a moment that I'd be happy to see him executed, simply, but that's inaccurate. I wouldn't be happy about it, but I would feel it was just and right if that happened. I think, in certain cases (like this), I'm an advocate of the death penalty, but even at that, when I think about it, it isn't really a good thing. Just a necessary, or justified thing. The death penalty is something I'm a bit unsure of, as far as opinions go.

I found this on my Friends' Friends page, so I'm sure you'd have seen it anyways. Apparently this one has videos linked to it, which I plan on watching when I get home.

I'm still rather struck by how much this has affected me, y'know? It feels really weird feeling the way I do being that I never knew her or anything...

But yeah, I hope the scumfuck gets what's coming to him, too, fucking bastard.

[surichan.livejournal.com]

It makes me very uncomfortable to say that I want the killer to die. I'm not sure exactly why that is...maybe it's just my natural aversion to the idea of killing people in general. Maybe I think that wishing death on someone, even someone who, by all rights, deserves death, is a stepping-stone in the wrong direction. I don't know. I can't seem to properly sort my feelings through on this subject.

I, too, feel that it would be just to see him meet his end, but...I don't know. I just don't know. There is evil in the world, people who prey on people...doesn't that deserve eradication? I think it does, but I just don't think I'm the right person to say how severe a punishment should be levied on a criminal. Don't ever let me be the deciding member on a jury.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

-nod nod-
I can see what you're saying, and I think you have a point as far as the "step in the wrong direction" goes. I have issues with the death penalty, mostly centered around the inaccuracy that can occur, and the fact that you can't take it back if you find you screwwed up.

That having been said, I'd be satisfied if he were executed; I think maybe that's the word I'm looking for, satisfied, not happy.

[surichan.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree completely - with the death penalty, there've just been too many cases where after the fact they find that the executed party was actually innocent. That sends a chill into my soul. If the one who killed Amanda were sentenced to death, only if they knew beyond the merest shadow of doubt that he was the one who'd done it would I feel in any way all right with the proceedings.

Yes. "Satisfied" is a very good word for this.