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    MalynHamilton Nolan
    8/02/13 1:14am

    I wonder, did you ever mail his letters for him? Just curious...

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      Hamilton NolanMalyn
      8/02/13 10:16am

      Yes we did.

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    FavelaHamilton Nolan
    8/01/13 1:41pm

    Ugh, literal chills when I saw that headline. It's absolutely barbaric. Our descendants are going to (and should) be ashamed of us. Its not even 2PM, but I think I need a drink...

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      FavelaFavela
      8/01/13 3:14pm

      If you want to verbally vomit a bunch of garbage defending killing people go post your own comment.

      I think it's disgusting, and I think the moral equivocating in favor of state sanctioned murder is obscene. Just like there is no legitimate argument for slavery or torture, there is none for cold blooded murder.

      No, revenge is not a legitimate reason. More than enough innocent people have died for this garbage.

      Feel free to have your opinion, I feel free to ignore your gross blood lust. Any such reply to my comment will be deleted the same way a bunch of racist or homophobic nonsense would.

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      Michael RougeauFavela
      8/01/13 3:21pm

      I get your point, but isn't imprisonment kind of like slavery?

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    user 123456Hamilton Nolan
    8/01/13 2:20pm

    He had a troubled childhood, but put his life together and had a good career at Merrill Lynch and a pretty bride. After she left him, he had a mental breakdown and then drugs followed. I can't believe that this has happened. It is so shocking. He must have been bi-polar or something and the divorce just knocked the pins out from under him

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      YoDADDYHamilton Nolan
      8/01/13 7:38pm

      having to repost some of my comments due to censorship(someone please explain how I am being offensive here):

      ive take it you've worked in maxim security prisons? where people have found themselves because they choose to commit absolutely horrendous acts. Ive had this discussion with some members of my family who have. What made me think twice about the issue your pushing is when they make the point that about the guy in there for throwing his girlfriends newborn in the microwave, and then stabbing to death the gf once she got home. Other stories on the Hannibal lecture side, actually worse, kind of changed my view that "we are all human/make love not war" type sentiment. I am a peace loving person, love life, love nature, but there are twisted people out there..

      I get where your coming from. I too wish all people would come to there senses and put down there hatred for one another and find common ground. This world would be better if violence wasn't apart of our human institutions especially within the levels of government. Societies like ours would be able to come to new heights if we weren't restrained by the needs of violent people who hinder the growth of a prosperous society..

      take for instance Americas current foreign policy. We send millions, even billions of dollars over seas to create and fund wars. Currently, our nation is spending billions to aid a blood thirsty group in Syria. These funds, would do sooooo soo much better here in the states. The funds used to get bombs and bullets to be used to kill poor people in the middle east could be better put to use here by rebuilding our infrastructure(roads, bridges, schools) but no. The violent men we have in charge would rather see our tax dollars be put to use for there violent agenda. With this "support" of Syrian rebels(wahabists mainly) we are being denied a better society(rebuilding infrastructure, at the same time creating jobs).

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        corey3rdHamilton Nolan
        8/01/13 1:41pm

        Being a Gawker Death Row Correspondent has all the job security of being an editor here.

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          deadpetsocietycorey3rd
          12/19/13 12:20pm

          Death row inmates spend a minimum of a decade behind bars before they are executed. That kind of job security is the stuff of fantasy in the civilian world.

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        baconsandalsHamilton Nolan
        8/01/13 1:59pm

        This poor fellow should have applied the "don't murder people rule" I live by. It's the easiest way to avoid being sentenced to death for murdering people.

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          Bertie.Wbaconsandals
          8/01/13 3:58pm

          It's not 100% effective, though.

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        ZestyPiquanteHamilton Nolan
        8/01/13 1:50pm

        What was Feldman charged with, again?

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          GogogadgetanythingZestyPiquante
          8/01/13 2:03pm

          And attempted murder of a third.

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          ZestyPiquanteGogogadgetanything
          8/01/13 2:31pm

          Two murders, one attempted. Got it. Sounds like Mr Feldman very thoroughly waived his right to continue making use of everything this planet and this wonderful thing called life has to offer, and got what he deserved.

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        Adam StaceyHamilton Nolan
        8/01/13 2:33pm

        From Wikipedia:

        "Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and 32 out of 50 states in the United States[64] are the only developed countries that have retained the death penalty."

        " The latest country to move towards abolition is Mongolia. In January 2012, its Parliament adopted a bill providing for the death penalty to be abolished.[71]"

        Even Mongolia has beaten the US to dropping the death penalty.

        Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, North Korea, Somalia, China, Afghanistan, Egypt, Belarus, UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, Syria. This the company the US is keeping on this policy.

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          wim1950Hamilton Nolan
          8/01/13 3:44pm

          Two reasons why capital punishment is wrong:

          1. By taking a person's life because they took a life makes us no better than the criminal.

          2. Newly-available DNA evidence has allowed the exoneration and release of more than 15 death row inmates since 1992 in the United States.
          The Death Penalty Information Center in the U.S. has published a list of 8 inmates "executed but possibly innocent". At least 39 executions are claimed to have been carried out in the U.S. in the face of evidence of innocence or serious doubt about guilt.

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            DeccaLeChatHamilton Nolan
            8/02/13 1:35am

            All the "and why am I supposed to feel sorry for this guy?" posts miss the point. We, as a society, should not kill people out of an excess of pity or mercy for those people; we should not kill people because to do so diminishes *us* and our moral authority.

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