You’ll Only Read It Here Once: Edith Prague Was Right.
State Senator Edith Prague (D-Columbia) can be a nasty piece of work. The veteran legislator lives in a world of saints and sinners. Now and then she succumbs to an outbreak of empathy. She went off script and leaped into the headlines with her comments about nailing the fiend Joshua Komisarjevky by his John Thomas to a Main Street tree. It may have been devoid of subtlety and too vivid for these times, but she is correct that she had the right to say it. Komisarjevsky’s defenders, she agrees, also have the right to criticize her. The lady has no trouble defending herself.
A relentless partisan bruiser, Prague did not incite or threaten. In some ways, it was her version of a softer moment as she joined with Dr. William Petit in opposing the repeal of the death penalty. Prague merely expressed an aspiration that was not, one suspects, exclusively hers.
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Wrong. I believe there is overwhelming evidence to convict. We must oppose any attempt to poison the jury. That is asking for mob rule.
Kevin,
If a male senator had said that we should hang a female triple murder defendant from a tree by her vagina, would you be defending him?
he will be convicted, but will get life.
prague proved that she is for the death penalty, not matter what she says from now on.
HST
They both deserve the death penalty. But what I can’t comprehend is why a CT legislator doesn’t bring forward legislation that simply requires “absolute certainty.” In this case, it would apply as there is absolutely no doubt that these two are the murderers… and IMO they deserve the DP.
Sen. Prague’s argues against the DP because she wouldn’t want to put an innocent man to death. I agree with her. But that simply doesn’t apply in this case. So why not draft legislation to address her concerns? I’m a Republican who is equally concerned about wrongful conviction. But that’s not an issue here.
Instead of “a reasonable doubt,” make it “absolutely no doubt.”
Edith Prague did the right and decent thing. She put people above politics and her personal beliefs. If more politicians had that sense of decency, the world would be a better place.
What ever happened to the quaint old American idea that a person is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, an improtant part of the constitution which Senator Prague to an oath to uphold. Her comments disrepected the legal system and that oath.
YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!