Saturday, April 28, 2012

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

So, today I come across the headline, " Kentucky judge orders state to consider single-drug executions". So here is the story. A man was executed on Wednesday and his lawyer, who witnessed the execution, said the "victim" was shaking violently after he was injected.    He called it cruel and unusual punishment.  So, I read this and I am sitting here wondering to myself about the crime this man must have committed to get the death penalty in the first place. I of course went to my trusty side kick GOOGLE and typed in his name, Thomas Kemp, and just as I thought murder was this mans crime. In 1992 Kemp and an accomplice kidnapped a 25 year old Mexican college student, took him to a mine and had him disrobe, then shot him in the head. So he first kidnapped him. Kidnapping is defined as to seize or carry away unlawfully, and it is usually done for ransom, but not this time. Thomas Kemp just felt like taking 25 year old Hector Juarez out to a mine to shoot him. So what was the reason you ask? Mr. Kemp didn't like Mexicans. After his hearing in 1993 he stated that his only regret was not killing the accomplice, because after they(Kemp and Jeffrey Logan) robbed a family and sexually assaulted them Logan turned them in over the phone. These two men bought a pistol(the murder weapon) 2 days before the murder, kidnapped Juarez, shot him, sold the vehicle after they painted it, bought a new gun, made a man and woman drive them to Colorado then sexually assaulted them, and now Kemp says he doesn't regret a thing. I think the only thing cruel and unusual is that this man existed in the first place. How could you have pity for a man like that. It is a sad world.