TV anchor attacked. UPDATE: Suspect in custody. NEW UPDATE: Suspect found guilty

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Saw "W." last night. They had a take-off on something stupid that the Decider did, called it "Spinball" and Pressly played a woman with an outlook/style like Ann Coulter. She was on the screen for a few seconds.

 

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Oh lord. That's incredibly unnerving. A person who doesn't live in Iowa, is not related to her, is not a police officer and has never known her has an intense desire to know what happened to her?

Something about that scenario is just not right at all. Plus, s/he basically admits that they created the account under a false name. People in this world worry me.


...actually on-topic, this entire situation is sad. I'm guessing that she's not conscious while she's in the hospital because she could probably give them clues or at least help out. This whole this is sad and incredibly scary, as a 20-year-old white female. It's sad that the world we live in isn't really safe anymore.

 

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We never did.

 

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Ok. That's creepy.

 

Re: TV anchor attacked, in critical but stable condition

Big update on TV this morning: her credit card was used at a gas station around midnight the night of the attack, and the police are trying to find surveillance video.
Maybe it was just a robbery after all.

 

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"Just"?

Let's not go too far minimizing this horrific crime.

 

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Midnight? That means she lay injured for at least four hours. Truly a miracle that she survived; even more of one if she makes a full recovery.

 

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The funny thing is that if this guy were to be executed by lethal injection, there would be crowds of people protesting it as cruel and unusual and saying he shouldn't have to suffer.

 

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This.

 

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So, we should stoop to his level?

 

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I used to be 100 percent for the death penalty... When John Spinkalink (sp?) was the first executed in Florida, there was a t-shirt that read "1 down, 132 to go" representing the number still on death row.

However, when you see the HUGE cost difference between a person sentenced to life in prison versus a person sentenced to death and you see the state of our economies across the country... I start to think that maybe living in a 10x10 for the rest of their days is a good punishment.

Don't get me wrong... they can fry, shoot, hang or drug up every last one of them and it wouldn't bother me morally... But is there a better, cheaper, etc., way.

 

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The cost wouldn't be so huge if the appeals process hadn't become so bloated.
A hundred years ago, a man would sentenced to death and hung 30 days later. Fifty years ago the sentence was carried out maybe a year or two later... Now.. shit, it be could be 20-30 years before the sentence is carried out.

I understand the need for appeals, but there has to be a middle ground.. It shouldn't take 20 or 30 - or even 10 years to execute man.