From the disproportionate number of minorities on death rows across the nation to ethical questions about the manner in which individual states carry out executions, there are plenty of compelling reasons for abolishing capital punishment.
The recent double homicide at the East Broad Street Shell station, in which the mother of three young children complied with an armed robber’s demands before being shot to death along with a customer, outweighs all of those concerns.
Some crimes are so heinous and some criminals so dangerous that the only proper way for an organized society to respond is with lethal force. This is certainly one of those cases.Life imprisonment is entirely inadequate for someone who would kill for no reason other than pure meanness and greed. Someone who would put two bullets in a defenseless woman as she knelt on the floor certainly wouldn’t think twice about causing bodily harm to a corrections officer or other inmates.
The possibility of being executed obviously did not deter the thug who mercilessly took the lives of Shell clerk Jennifer Vincek and customer Jeff Peck. We still hold out hope, however, that the eventul execution of their killer might deter others from making the same mistakes.
Andrew Ramseur, the teen who was indicted Monday in this brutal crime, is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he murdered Ms. Vincek and Mr. Peck in the commission of a robbery.
If Ramseur is convicted as charged, he deserves the ultimate punishment.
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HE IS GUILTY AND HE WILL GET WHAT HE DESERVES!!!!!
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