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Without capital punishment dangerous murderers like this get set free. They stay in prison awhile and compassionate parole boards let them out. This guy shot and killed three people originally and was paroled the first time after serving only 14 years behind bars.

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ST. LOUIS • A man charged Friday with fatally shooting an assistant manager of an apartment complex had murdered three people in St. Louis in 1973, police and court records say.
Torrance C. Epps, 78, of the 1400 block of Ohio Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, armed criminal action and gun felony charges after Thursday’s killing.
Police said Epps shot Tiandra Johnson, 32, in the complex office after accusing her of stealing his money. He had recently reported that someone broke into his apartment and items were missing, court documents say.
He first fired several shots at a woman near her apartment, then went to the leasing office and pointed a revolver at another person before shooting Johnson, officials said.
Johnson, who lived in the 3800 block of McRee Avenue, was found in a hallway of the Lafayette Towne senior housing complex at 1410 Ohio Avenue about 1 p.m.
Epps was arrested at the complex Thursday and was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 cash-only bail. Police said he has been hospitalized with undisclosed “medical issues.” His first name is listed in some records as Torrence.
He had been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the fatal shootings on Dec. 3, 1973, of three in-laws in their home in the 2900 block of Franklin Avenue, now Martin Luther King Boulevard. He murdered his wife’s mother, Pauline Clark, 44, and her grandparents, Matthew and Pauline Sherman, both 72, with a revolver.
Epps had been searching for his son and wife, Linda Clark Epps, who said she left him because he beat her. After more than a week of searching, he became convinced that his in-laws were helping hide them. He showed up at a police station, demanding that officers help find them, then went to the in-laws’ home with a gun.
Epps had served 14 years when he was paroled in September 1988 and sent to a halfway house. He escaped a month later and was a fugitive for eight years. He was caught in a food stamp fraud crackdown when he paid an undercover federal agent $380 for $615 in food stamps, and was returned to prison. He was paroled in 2003.
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He needs experts in mental health and not the gas chamber.

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There is no doubt that sometimes the death penalty would save lives.
But sometimes the death penalty not only takes innocent lives, but establishes the precedent that there is nothing wrong with taking life even when there is no particular need to do so.

If government can arbitrarily decide to take life, than so can anyone.
Since individuals are the only source of government's authority to do anything, if government can execute, we all can.
That simple logic is inescapable, and also obvious to any poor person with a gun.
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Without capital punishment dangerous murderers like this get set free



and with capital punishment entirely innocent people get put to death by the state

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"it is wrong to kill therefore Im going to kill you"
like yeah that makes sense!

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Either murder is a crime, or it is not. If it is not, why punish it?
If it is, then by what perverse logic do you punish it by the same crime?
 It also is tantamount to bad arithmetic, since now two people are dead instead of one!"
-Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade

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Well if you want capital punishment, use it on this guy. This sickens me.

Alliance man arrested for burning dog alive
http://www.wkyc.com/news/crime/alliance-man-arrested-for-burning-dog-alive/389681252

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Well if you want capital punishment, use it on this guy. This sickens me.

Alliance man arrested for burning dog alive
http://www.wkyc.com/news/crime/alliance-man-arrested-for-burning-dog-alive/389681252



What is odd is that killing a dog is not even considered a crime.
The police routinely shoot dogs if they even remotely annoyed by them.
There is a video of a woman trying to stand in front of her dog so the cop can't shoot it, so he arrests here for obstructing.
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What is odd is that killing a dog is not even considered a crime



its not the killing of the dog which is the problem

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What is odd is that killing a dog is not even considered a crime



its not the killing of the dog which is the problem



Yes of course the killing of the dog is not the worst part.
I am just saying is that even the killing of a dog should be a crime.
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Well if you want capital punishment, use it on this guy. This sickens me.

Alliance man arrested for burning dog alive
http://www.wkyc.com/news/crime/alliance-man-arrested-for-burning-dog-alive/389681252



I agree. emoticon This monster should be given the same death sentence he gave the dog. emoticon
 
People like this don't deserve to breathe air.
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