Recently, statistics revealed that violent crime in NYC was at a historic low. An article in today's NY Post offers discouraging news. 280 murderers and rapists from the five boroughs were paroled in 2012. The creeps listed below are the worst of the lot. I understand opposition to the death penalty. I have a problem with it myself. What I don't understand is how anyone who committed such crimes can be released from prison. These five should have remained behind bars until death. It would be money well spent, government doing what it's supposed do - protect citizens.
Sherain Bryant, 57, murder, 1994, 25 to life, beat her 4 year old daughter to death for drinking from the toilet in their Bronx apartment. Bryant and her husband had burned, battered and tied up little Shayna and her siblings for years. Cops said Shayna bore the brunt of the attacks because her parents considered her ugly.
Derrick Hoover, 48, murder, 1985, 25 to life, shot and killed a beloved basketball coach after robbing him of his jewelry on a No. 3 train in Brooklyn. The victim, Alfred Riddick, 23, coached teens in Canarsie.
Calvin Kadet, 63, murder, 1975, 25 to life, killed a good Samaritan while robbing a Brooklyn candy store in Williamsburg. The victim, Cecilio Mercado, came to the aid of an off duty cop who was chasing Kadet and an accomplice.
Paul Kennedy, 52, murder, 1981, 25 to life, strangled 16 year old Rita Heilweil with his bare hands in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn in 1981 after she rejected his sexual advances, and he raped her corpse.
Christopher “Crazy Chris” Aniades, 54, murder and rape, 1981, 25 to life, abducted, raped and strangled 19 year old Doreen Vitale as she waited for a bus in Ozone Park. Cops suspected him of several other brutal attacks on women, including one in which the victim’s throat was slashed and her eyes cut.
Also in today's Post, a number of choice tidbits:
An article by M. Andrew Holowchak criticizes what he believes is shoddy work by historians who conclude Thomas Jefferson is the father of slave Sally Hemmings last child. He claims it could have been any of 20 Jefferson males, including the founding father.
Congress is drafting a law that would exempt its members from Obama Care. Only the country's most corrupt union can come up with something like this. They are sickening.
Has Syria crossed the so-called red line, triggering American intervention, by using chemical weapons on rebel forces? Several pundits ask why that is more heinous than death by gunfire or bombs.
A recent poll reveals that the current approval ratings of both Obama and Bush are 47%. How weird is that?
There's a piece about the latest Iron Man movie, which I'd planned to skip until I read that the great Ben Kingsley is playing the villain. I am always amazed at how that little man becomes a giant on the silver screen.
My thanks to Nelly, who not only bought a copy of Killing but also one of Head over Wheels, the latest romance novel of my literary angel January Valentine. Thanks also to Bad News Billy, who purchased the Modern Country CD I burned several months ago.
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