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    justthisHamilton Nolan
    4/09/14 3:00pm

    Said it before and I'll say it again. 100% against the death penalty. Ray Jasper should not have been executed. However, I do not necessarily have sympathy for Ray Jasper, he was unrepentant and his crime was heinous, but the death penalty was NOT the solution.

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      Seneca the Younger(er)justthis
      4/09/14 3:12pm

      This is not a snarky or facetious question. What is the solution?

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      justthisSeneca the Younger(er)
      4/09/14 3:15pm

      I don't know. We need to increase funding for prisons. We need to increase funding on mental health research. We need to emphasize rehabilitation over penalization. We need society to change.

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    PrayForDentonHamilton Nolan
    4/09/14 3:00pm

    Is the point of this series a ploy to make me somehow pro-death penalty? RAY JASPER SLIT SOME GUYS THROAT, PLANNED SOME GUY'S ROBBERY AND MURDER AND SHOWED NO REMORSE.

    Fuck that guy, and fuck this ish.

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      ScottieBinyonsPrayForDenton
      4/09/14 3:03pm

      Sounds like an "asset" the world can do without.

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      _MCA_PrayForDenton
      4/09/14 3:03pm

      Yeah, I was about to say the same thing... if you want to elicit sympathy try using cases where the guy isn't a monster.

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    Pink SkullHamilton Nolan
    4/09/14 3:30pm

    Everything you need to know about Ray Jasper:

    Q: What did he do?

    Slit a guys throat in a premeditated robbery.

    Q: Is there any chance he didn't do it?

    Nope.

    Q: How did the trial go down?

    He tried to get off on a technicality by saying slitting a man's throat wasn't what killed him.

    Q: For real?

    Sadly, yes.

    Q: Has he shown any remorse?

    Fuck no.

    Q: So why am I hearing about this guy?

    He wrote a letter that railed about some of the less than savory aspects of prison and it gave a Gawker writer a boner.

    Q: Does anybody else care?

    Not really.

    Q: Is he dead?

    Yes.

    Q: Does it make me pro death penalty because I feel nothing for him?

    I don't think so, but that's for you to decide.

    Q: So why are we still talking about this guy?

    Page view.

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      Orangu-ManPink Skull
      4/09/14 3:40pm

      I hope some day your life gets worked down to a Q&A for no one to give a shit about too buddy ;)

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      elaine layaboutPink Skull
      4/09/14 4:27pm

      in other news, if a tree falls in the woods and you don't personally hear it, it doesn't make a sound ... oh, and if someone chops that tree up and sells it for firewood, he is a whore!

      just because you cannot perceive a moral viewpoint does not mean it doesn't exist, and just because someone writes about an issue to generate revenue, it doesn't mean that that is the only reason they write ... financially successful authors, from charles dickens to suzanne collins, have written on subjects they cared about for monetary gain ... indeed, the more money they make, the wider the audience for their viewpoint becomes

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    Max ContrarianHamilton Nolan
    4/09/14 3:36pm

    This guy was no asset. This guy was a fucking unrepentant monster. This is not the good fight.

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      burningthemidnightoilMax Contrarian
      4/09/14 5:12pm

      Ah, but this about how morally superior you could feel if you just chalked this guy's murderous actions up to "mistake" and "personal flaws" and subsequently gave him a platform from which he could deny his guilt?

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      Max Contrarianburningthemidnightoil
      4/09/14 5:38pm

      I'm truly baffled as to why Hamilton has been working this guy so hard. This guy makes people want to keep killing horrible murderers.

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    toothpetardHamilton Nolan
    4/09/14 3:01pm

    JOIN ME IN SCREAMING FOR BLOOD!
    Because killing is bad.

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      elaine layaboutHamilton Nolan
      4/09/14 3:18pm

      if i can imagine that a george bush or jamie dimon, despite their crimes, can have moments of gentleness and generosity, that they love their families and care about their friends, i can allow for as much humanity in a ray jasper or travis runnels

      i do not excuse ray-ray and travis their cruelties, but i don't excuse george and jamie, either, no matter how white and rich they may be ... and if i ran the world, all four would be locked up until the ends of their days ... and hopefully they would all use that time to channel their better instincts toward admission, remorse, and restitution for their crimes

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        executionerelaine layabout
        4/09/14 11:39pm

        Elaine- Put down your crack pipe and educate yourself a bit. Comparing President George Bush to the trash that was ray jasper is beyond ignorant. It is people like you - who form opinions based on personal bias rather than facts - that make all Americans look ignorant. Whether for or against the death penalty, your ridiculous statements are of absolutely no value.

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        lostmyburneragainelaine layabout
        4/10/14 2:09am

        Obviously executioner suffered from a kinda hiccup, but I like to imagine that s/he's so angry that s/he needed to repeatedly shout about your crack pipe. Talk about a swing and a miss.

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      homomanHamilton Nolan
      4/09/14 3:26pm

      I have been against the Death Penalty. Ray Jasper's brutal murder of another human being still has me questioning whether or not he deserved the death penalty. I have very little sympathy for him. I have sympathy for his family and friends, they did not deserve what happened. Ray Jasper, I'm trying hard stick to my beliefs but the words of the murder victim's brother keep coming back to me and shaking my core beliefs. Does someone who does not value the life of another, let alone the life of someone who helped Jasper have value? I'll have to keep questioning. To answer one way or the other right now would be bullshit right now.

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        GiveMeMyCountryBackhomoman
        4/09/14 3:41pm

        Since 1973, 144 people have been exonerated from death row.

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        homomanGiveMeMyCountryBack
        4/09/14 3:57pm

        I understand that. The issue is when the perps are caught in the act of ransacking, with the victim's DNA on them, the murder weapon had their DNA on it, he admits to slitting the throat of the man, and told of how he held the victim still while the killing stabs were inflicted. This from a man who had been helped by his victim.

        This type of personality has me questioning.

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      OctoberSurpriseHamilton Nolan
      4/09/14 3:05pm

      A friend of mine knew me and Ray-Ray were associates so she downloaded the letter and mailed it to me

      Hold the phone, shut the front the door, and get me some motherfucking DONKEY SAUCE...we downloading letters and shit up in here. One can only hope all the comments, memes in the comments, and any ads were downloaded as well to preserve the Gawker experience even. How did this prisoner upload his letter to you HamNo? Did he use the tubes?

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        DolemiteHamilton Nolan
        4/09/14 3:05pm

        It sounds like reading and studying really changed their lives. If only there was a period of life where you could do that. "they killed a man who had the potential to impact lives". Well, I can think of one life that was impacted, the music studio owner that was nice enough to left Jasper and his pals use his equipment, just to have them stab him in the back (literally) and slit his throat.

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          erwwamHamilton Nolan
          4/09/14 3:00pm

          "I pray his daughter can carry on in honor of her father who lead not by words but his actions despite all the negativity surrounding him."

          Let's review some of "his actions"

          Jasper went to the recording studio of the victim. He walked up behind the victim and grabbed him by the hair and slit his throat. The victim was then stabbed to death.

          Jasper covered the victim with a black sheet in order to "not have to look at him." Jasper then began loading vehicles with the equipment inside the studio, estimated to be worth between $10,000 and $30,000."

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