{"id":4141,"date":"2011-02-23T08:32:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2011-02-23T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:32:32","slug":"death-sentence-for-tea-party-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/death-sentence-for-tea-party-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Sentence for Tea Party Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shawna Forde, a a staunch Republican Teabagger<\/a> and  Tom Tancredo associate<\/a>, has been sentenced to death in Pima County Arizona.  While I fully endorse the guilty verdict against her, I oppose the sentence.  She should have been sentenced to life without possibility of parole.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"23shawna-forde\"Shawna Forde, the anti-immigrant vigilante leader who orchestrated the murder of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter, will receive the death penalty, a Pima County, Ariz., jury decided today<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The decision is binding on the judge hearing the case.<\/p>\n

The case of Forde, a one-time member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps who went on to found her own Minuteman American Defense (MAD) group, didn\u2019t get much attention from the national mainstream media. But among immigrant rights groups, Forde has become a symbol of the vicious hatreds that seems to lie just beneath the surface of the contemporary nativist movement<\/strong>. Forde targeted the family in the hope of stealing money to fund her MAD organization…<\/p>\n

…Forde was convicted<\/a> on Feb. 14 of two counts of murder for the killing of Raul Flores and his daughter, Brisenia, in May 2009, along with the attempted murder of the child\u2019s mother. She was also convicted of two counts of aggravated assault and one count each of aggravated robbery, armed robbery and burglary.<\/p>\n

Forde led her two followers into the Flores home in Arivaca, Ariz., believing that Raul Flores was a drug dealer who would have plenty of cash on hand\u2026 <\/p>\n

\u2026Forde was once well known on the nastier end of the nativist movement, and in fact hobnobbed with many of its leaders<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The reason I oppose the sentence is that I am opposed to capital punishment without exception.  The Bill of Rights outlaws cruel and unusual punishment.  Few things are more cruel that ending the life of another human being.  The death penalty is now unusual, because almost every civilized nation in the world has outlawed it.  Furthermore, the US has signed treaties to end federal execution, and have defaulted on our word.  Contrary to the main Republican argument, executing a prisoner costs taxpayers far more than warehousing that same prisoner for life.  While I believe this woman is guilty, too many innocent people have died through stare sanctioned murder.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawna Forde, a a staunch Republican Teabagger and  Tom Tancredo associate, has been sentenced to death in Pima County Arizona.  While I fully endorse the guilty verdict against her, I oppose the sentence.  She should have been sentenced to life without possibility of parole. Shawna Forde, the anti-immigrant vigilante leader who orchestrated the murder of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}