Indy prosecutor seeks death penalty in shooting death of IMPD Officer Perry Renn

[Frank_N_Stein]

Wasn't he dead when he arrived to the hospital the night it happened and brought back?

He was actually pronounced dead at the scene by a medic attached to the SWAT team and had shown signs of life several minutes later when the on-duty IEMS medics arrived so they worked him and revived him.

 

[churchmouse]

O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There'll be some more aaaaaaaah!
And you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up? No?
I do believe it's working, good
That's what you get for being a scumbag.
Sucks to be you, it's time to go.

I......have become comfortably numb

 

[IndyDave1776]

Better than one juror who is against death penalty and doesn't convict

This is the reason we now have lethal injection in Indiana, which was the first piece of legislation introduced by John Waterman when he was elected to the State Senate. Shortly before, while serving as sheriff, he had a criminal who was the type of person that makes a person want to simply strike out into the realm of vigilante justice bash a teenage girl's brain out of her head with a tire iron. The girl was his nephew/son's girlfriend (this guy wanted a 'sample' and the girl wouldn't put out)(the boy was legally his nephew but biologically his son as he had raped and impregnated his sister-in-law while his brother was in prison) and two women on the jury refused to vote to convict based solely on their notion that the electric chair was too cruel to use on anyone. As John put it, he didn't care how they got killed as long as they got killed, so that was his first mission as a State Senator.

 

[ModernGunner]

Good.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There'll be some more aaaaaaaah!
And you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up? No?
I do believe it's working, good
That's what you get for being a scumbag.
Sucks to be you, it's time to go.

Good one, Have a Cigar.

 

[jblomenberg16]

Would / could a conviction and death sentence start a Ferguson style riot in Indy? That shouldn't be a reason not to push for death penalty, but could be a real possibility.

 

[VUPDblue]

I think that the contingent of a-holes who opine that MD is not guilty is small enough that their "riot" would amount to no more than a backyard BBQ.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Can they convict and choose a lesser penalty?

Yes, a jury need not impose LWOP or death.

As with most controversial subjects, it is tough to get 12 persons to agree. I have had juries hang on LWOP even for atrocious murders.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Would / could a conviction and death sentence start a Ferguson style riot in Indy? That shouldn't be a reason not to push for death penalty, but could be a real possibility.

No, there is not the necessary top soil for such stupidity in Indiana, even Indianapolis.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Death penalty for Perry Renn's Killer, Death penalty for some of the southside 4(I guess southside 3 now that one is turning states evidence) but no death penalty for the jackwagon who killed the gas station attendant on the westside and skipped around....

I agree with your sentiment, but we didn't get into our present horribly sissified way of dealing with the worst of crime overnight and won't get out of it overnight, so this is still a good start.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

but no death penalty for the jackwagon who killed the gas station attendant on the westside and skipped around....

Correct. What would have qualified the alleged gas station killer for the DP?

 

[sj kahr k40]

I think that if Curry wants to keep his job come next election he had to ask for the DP, can you imagine the blowback if he didn't?

 

[IndyGal65]

This is good news. The only thing wrong here is that he can't be executed, resurrected, and executed again a few more times.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

mm the fact that Troy Briggs is dead? equality? The fact that a man is dead with no provocation so that Desi could buy shoes and drugs and then brag about it?

Cop Killed = DP
Drug Dealers Killed = DP
Average Joe working to make a living Killed No death penalty

Indiana's DP statute does not permit the MCPA, or any PA, to file the DP at his or her whim.

There are aggravators which permit the filing of the DP, killing cops is one, multiple victims is another in the course of a serious felony.

There are conditions for seeking the DP in the alleged Murder of the gas station attendant (the robbery), but I would be shocked to see it filed.

We have a growing problem with crime in this city and perhaps its time to make a few examples and put our citizens foot down

Then arm and train the citizenry. By the time it gets to the Prosecuting Attorney, it is far too late to have any deterrent effect.

 

[churchmouse]

Umm the fact that Troy Briggs is dead? equality? The fact that a man is dead with no provocation so that Desi could buy shoes and drugs and then brag about it?

Cop Killed = DP
Drug Dealers Killed = DP
Average Joe working to make a living Killed No death penalty


We have a growing problem with crime in this city and perhaps its time to make a few examples and put our citizens foot down

^^^^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Kirk, I most often agree with you. Do this kind of crime and know if caught you need to get right with your god.

 

[OkieGirl]

I don't like it, but I can't see any other way to handle it. If you take the life of one of our citizens in cold blood we will return the favor. If you kill one of our police officers, we PROMISE to put you in the fast lane.

 

[church]

O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There'll be some more aaaaaaaah!
And you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up? No?
I do believe it's working, good
That's what you get for being a scumbag.
Sucks to be you, it's time to go.

I would heavily prefer "Aim, Ready, Fire" right out back of the court house.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I would heavily prefer "Aim, Ready, Fire" right out back of the court house.

Or, "Aim, FIRE!" *Ha, cheated the SOB out of a few seconds!*

 

[chezuki]

Seems to me like Aggravting Factor G seems to be the winner there

There are conditions for seeking the DP in the alleged Murder of the gas station attendant (the robbery), but I would be shocked to see it filed.

 

[chezuki]

Or, "Aim, FIRE!" *Ha, cheated the SOB out of a few seconds!*

How about "On the charge of murder in the first degree, the jury finds the defendant... BANG!!! This court is now adjourned, Bailiff, please notify the cleaning crew."