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Looks like execution is still on. I highly doubt this appeal will be granted unless the lawyers get some bleeding heart who feels sorry for this thug. And since this is California that is always a possibilty. I have no doubts this is the thug who tourtured that young girl no one deserves to die like that. The case is rock solid with Morales having the murder weapons and her blood on them.

It is about time I think if this doesn't work the US should pull out of the UN they already drew their line in the sand by siding with Germany and France. Those countries most notably France are nothing but scum.

I mispoke let my emotions get the best of me, What I was meaning to say is blame goes to everyone from Newt Gingrich to Bill Clinton.

Fact is Clinton screwed up and now he has the blood of 2500 people on his name

I have no problem with that

Here is a reason why 1% is too much of a risk Kenneth McDuff, for instance, was convicted of the 1966 shooting deaths of two boys and the vicious rape-strangulation of their 16-year-old female companion. A Fort Worth jury ruled that McDuff should die in the electric chair, a sentence commuted to life in prison in 1972 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty as then imposed. In 1989, with Texas prisons overflowing and state officials under fire from the federal judiciary, McDuff was quietly turned loose on an unsuspecting citizenry. Within days, a naked body of a woman turned up. Sarafia Parker, 31, had been beaten, strangled and dumped in a field near Temple. McDuff's freedom in 1989 was interrupted briefly. Jailed after a minor racial incident, he slithered through the system and was out again in 1990. In early 1991, McDuff enrolled at Texas State Technical College in Waco. Soon, Central Texas women began disappearing. One, Valencia Joshua, 22, was last seen alive Feb. 24, 1991. Her naked, decomposed body later was discovered in a shallow grave in woods behind the college. Another of the missing women, Regenia Moore, was last seen kicking and screaming in the cab of McDuff's pickup truck. During the Christmas holidays of 1991, Colleen Reed disappeared from an Austin car wash. Witnesses reported hearing a woman scream that night and seeing two men speeding away in a yellow or tan Thunderbird. Little more than two months later, on March 1, 1992, Melissa Northrup, pregnant with a third child, vanished from the Waco convenience store where she worked. McDuff's beige Thunderbird, broken down, was discovered a block from the store. Fifty-seven days later, a fisherman found the young woman's nearly nude body floating in a gravel pit in Dallas County, 90 miles north of Waco. By then, McDuff was the target of a nationwide manhunt. Just days after Mrs. Northrup's funeral, McDuff was recognized on television's "America's Most Wanted'' and arrested May 4 in Kansas City. In 1993, a Houston jury ordered him executed for the kidnap-slaying of 22-year-old Melissa Northrup, a Waco mother of two. In 1994, a Seguin jury assessed him the death penalty for the abduction-rape-murder of 28-year-old Colleen Reed, an Austin accountant. Pamplin's son Larry, the current sheriff of Falls County, appeared at McDuff's Houston trial for the 1992 abduction and murder of Melissa Northrup. "Kenneth McDuff is absolutely the most vicious and savage individual I know,'' he told reporters. "He has absolutely no conscience, and I think he enjoys killing.'' If McDuff had been executed as scheduled, he said, "no telling how many lives would have been saved.'' At least nine, probably more, Texas authorities suspect. His riegn of terror finally ended on November 17, 1998 when Kenneth McDuff was put to death by the state of Texas by Lethal Injection. May his victims rest in peace. So what is worse one wrongly executed person or a thug like this who murdered 9 other women to me 9 is worse than 1. Until I get a guarantee that these thugs will not get out of prison then I have to be pro DP.

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But it is ok if they serve life??? I mean these thugs get 20 years worth appeals some get more than that, and with the priority capital cases get today if they can't find some evidence in 20+ years they never will.

Thanks Nuke someone who has the same beliefs

Well down here he would not live 1 year in Prison

How about to a confessed baby killer with DNA matches on murder weapon and on victim.

In murder cases where the crime is so harsh then yes the DP is the only way. The chance is to great for him getting out. Even it means he has 1% chance that is 1% to much

Well it isn't about costs it is about justice. Also we need to speed up appeals to make them only have one.

You are right I hate that Death is the only option for thugs like this. I perfer to strap him to a post and beat him within a inch of his life and to make sure that he could never live a normal life again. But then it is cruel punishment and the ACLU doesn't seem to understand that the person killed also had rights and they were violated as well.

It was their cornerstone in 1983, but you forget that DNA testing has become an almost exact science since then and the the DNA tests on the blood on the weapons was Terri's CASE CLOSED

So all the physical evidence is garbage so is the motive and oppurtunity as well... Give me a break. I guess the jail house informant planted that as well. The anti DP people are something else they are against it until it something happens to someone they love then it's great.

One thing I agree with you on is the punishment. The Punishment Morales will get is far less than what he deserves, The state should strangle him with a belt, take a hammer to his skull 23 times, drag him face down for 20 feet and stab him in the chest 4 times. Then he will know how it felt. Serving life in prison is nothing to this thug we need to start making these thugs pay for their actions, not slap them on the wrists like some group of people want to do then wonder why it doens't work.

Story from Pro Death Penalty Center: Michael Morales was convicted of raping and murdering 17-year-old Terri Winchell in January 1981. On January 8, 1981, twenty-one-year-old Michael Morales murdered and raped seventeen year-old Terri Lynn Winchell, with his nineteen-year-old cousin, Rick Ortega. In early 1980, Ortega and a seventeen-year-old male named Randy had a homosexual relationship. During this time, Randy also had a dating relationship with Terri Winchell. While Terri didn’t know about the homosexual relationship of Randy and Ortega, Ortega knew about Randy’s and Terri’s relationship. Ortega was extremely jealous of this relationship. Ortega and Morales conspired to murder Terri as “pay back” for Terri’s involvement with Randy. Ortega and Randy had a stormy relationship. Ortega reacted in threatening manner to Randy’s attempts to end their relationship. Ortega was also openly hostile towards Terri. In the weeks before the murder, Ortega set up a ruse to trick Terri into believing that Ortega wanted to make amends and become her friend. Morales “practiced” how he was going to strangle Terri, and told his girlfriend on the day of the murder how he was going to strangle and “hurt” someone. The day of the murder, Ortega tricked Terri into accompanying him and Morales in Ortega’s car to a remote area near Lodi, California. There, Morales attacked Terri from behind and attempted to strangle her with his belt. Terri struggled and the belt broke in two. Morales then took out a hammer and began hitting Terri in the head with it. She screamed for Ortega to help and attempted to fight off the attack, ripping her own hair out of her scalp in the struggle. Morales beat Terri into unconsciousness, crushing her skull and leaving 23 identifiable wounds in her skull. Morales took Terri from the car and instructed Ortega to leave and come back later. Ortega left and Morales then dragged Terri face-down across the road and into a vineyard. Morales then raped her while she lay unconscious. Morales then started to leave, but went back and stabbed Terri four times in the chest to make sure she died. Morales then left Terri, calling her “a f***ing b****,” as he walked away. Terri died from both the head and chest wounds. Her body was left in the vineyard naked from the waist down, with her sweater and bra pulled up over her breasts. Morales confessed to killing Terri to a jailhouse informant, as well as to his girlfriend and his housemate. Morales threatened both women prior to his trial so they would not testify about what he told them. Specifically, he admitted that he sat behind Terri after she had been lured into Ortega’s car, he put his belt around Terri’s neck and strangled her until the belt broke, he repeatedly hit her over the head with a hammer until she was unconscious, he took her out of the car and dragged her into a vineyard, he raped her, and he left her but then returned to be “sure” she was dead. Within two days of the murder, Morales was arrested at his residence. The police found Morales’ broken belt, containing Terri’s blood, hidden under a bedroom mattress. The police also found three knives, the hammer bearing traces of blood hidden in the refrigerator vegetable crisper, and blood-stained floor mats from Ortega’s car in the trash. Terri’s purse and credit card were also in the house. Ortega’s blood-spattered car was impounded. Morales had used $11 from Terri’s purse to buy beer, wine, and cigarettes on the night of the murder. Ortega, tried separately, was sentenced to life in prison. Morales had been previously convicted of felony burglary on October 4, 1979 and sentenced to prison. Shortly after killing Terri Lynn Winchell, Morales was convicted of two counts of robbery for which he was eventually sentenced to state prison. In that case, Morales entered a market to purchase beer. When a store clerk would not allow him to purchase beer, he left and later returned with two companions. Morales and the two others held the clerk, put a knife to his face, hit him with a milk crate and kicked him. One of his companions then knocked down a pregnant female clerk who suffered numerous head and facial cuts. The total loss of money, merchandise and equipment damage was $2,529. Lets hope come Wednesday Morales is finally executed.

Ok here is the proof: Democratic vote totals 2000 2004 IA 49% 47% NM 48% 45% MN 50% 48% WI 50% 48% I could keep going but it pointless Liberals don't understand that the public doesn't want to hear blame they want an actual answer and the republicans are the only one giving it. It is very easy to sit and blame the president for every little thing that goes wrong. The Iraq war is great example all of the liberals vote for it then as soon it hits a rough patch the liberals duck and run and critize the president for supporting the war. The fact is the liberals attacking Bush now after voting for the war are nothing but a bunch of cowards.

Right on

When is Hillary going to figure out the country doesn't want to hear your garbage. I was once hoping for Hillary not to run in 08 but now I am just to see her and extreme liberal friends fall on their faces. If Hillary wins 40% and 100 electoral votes I will be shocked.

I see they used Hagel, Chaffee and made their headline as Republicans. These two do not represent the core republican party. To get my attention they will have to get some solid republicans.

What the writer does not understand is if Lincoln had not taken the actions that he did that we would not have had a union to protect anyways. The writer also makes Lincoln out to be a power starved dictator which is totally off base. And finally the writer loses all creditability when he quotes Roger Taney. Taney is the same chief justice who was Jackson's attorney general that ordered all of the Indians off their lands. Taney also as Chief Justice ruled in Dred Scott that a black man has no rights and is nothing but property to the white men. People like this writer are so far into the left field it's crazy, they will actually use quotes from people like Taney who trumped human rights every chance he got.

Thanks, It sure upsets the liberals though