Turning tragedy into cynicism
Coincidence? Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney has appointed a commission to look into reinstating the death penalty just as Federal prosecutors seek the death penalty against already convicted killer and child molester Charles Jaynes.
For those who may not be familiar with the story, in 1997 Jaynes and a cohort abducted 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley, raped and murdered him, and then left his body in a trash barrel filled with lime. Not exactly the kind of guy you want living your neighborhood, or having access to your neighborhood, as was the case in this case. Then governor, now Ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci sought to reinstate the death penalty then, with full support of the Curley family. Then the Curleys felt as though they were used by pro-death penalty advocates and no longer support capital punishment. Got that?
Why would the Ashcroft brigade seek to revisit this case? The Curleys have already been through all of this once before. To use the tragic death of this boy as fodder for reinstating the death penalty, especially when it is against the family's wishes and has already seen the killers tried and convicted, is the worst kind of cynicism from the Department of Vengeance, whose mission seems to be instituting a single national rule of law?
Leave the Curleys alone and let Jeffrey rest in peace!
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Coincidence? Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney has appointed a commission to look into reinstating the death penalty just as Federal prosecutors seek the death penalty against already convicted killer and child molester Charles Jaynes.
For those who may not be familiar with the story, in 1997 Jaynes and a cohort abducted 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley, raped and murdered him, and then left his body in a trash barrel filled with lime. Not exactly the kind of guy you want living your neighborhood, or having access to your neighborhood, as was the case in this case. Then governor, now Ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci sought to reinstate the death penalty then, with full support of the Curley family. Then the Curleys felt as though they were used by pro-death penalty advocates and no longer support capital punishment. Got that?
Why would the Ashcroft brigade seek to revisit this case? The Curleys have already been through all of this once before. To use the tragic death of this boy as fodder for reinstating the death penalty, especially when it is against the family's wishes and has already seen the killers tried and convicted, is the worst kind of cynicism from the Department of Vengeance, whose mission seems to be instituting a single national rule of law?
Leave the Curleys alone and let Jeffrey rest in peace!
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