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An Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighbourhood was shot and killed by three "bored" teenagers who decided to kill someone for fun, police said.Christopher Lane, who was visiting the town of Duncan, where his girlfriend and her family live, had passed a home where the boys were staying and that apparently led to him being gunned down at random, Police Chief Danny Ford said Monday. A 17-year-old in the group has given a detailed confession to police, but investigators haven't found the weapon used in last week's shooting, Ford said...."They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said: `There's our target,"' Ford said. "The boy who has talked to us said, `We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody."'He said they followed the 22-year-old Lane, a student from Melbourne attending college on a baseball scholarship, in a car and shot him in the back before driving off.
It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?
Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.
(It may be of interest that while Oklahoma leads the US in death penalty executions per capita, these three, being 15, 16 and 17 years old cannot receive the death penalty per Roper v Simmons which requires that offenders be at least 18 years of age at the time of the offence.)
Quote from: dpareja on August 20, 2013, 05:10:02 pm(It may be of interest that while Oklahoma leads the US in death penalty executions per capita, these three, being 15, 16 and 17 years old cannot receive the death penalty per Roper v Simmons which requires that offenders be at least 18 years of age at the time of the offence.)The whole time I thought Texas was the "capital punishment" state (and one of the many shames of my home state).
If you want to do something stupid, do something where you don't have a chance to be executed.
Quote from: Leafy on August 20, 2013, 06:05:31 pmIf you want to do something stupid, do something where you don't have a chance to be executed.But that requires not being a complete fucking dumbass. That's just too much to ask of some people.
Quote from: Valerius on August 20, 2013, 06:09:13 pmQuote from: Leafy on August 20, 2013, 06:05:31 pmIf you want to do something stupid, do something where you don't have a chance to be executed.But that requires not being a complete fucking dumbass. That's just too much to ask of some people.True, but I just have to wonder about the thought process behind this.
Quote from: Leafy on August 20, 2013, 06:11:22 pmQuote from: Valerius on August 20, 2013, 06:09:13 pmQuote from: Leafy on August 20, 2013, 06:05:31 pmIf you want to do something stupid, do something where you don't have a chance to be executed.But that requires not being a complete fucking dumbass. That's just too much to ask of some people.True, but I just have to wonder about the thought process behind this.I'm guessing it went something like this:...
Guys, this is getting creepy. Can we talk about cannibalism instead?
I sympathize completely. However, to use against us. Let me ask you a troll. On the one who pulled it. But here's the question: where do I think it might as well have stepped out of all people would cling to a layman.
