jordanlund , 4 months ago

“convicted of five murders in three states and is suspected in several more.”

and:

“originally sentenced to death for the shooting deaths of John Wayne Bradford and Edward Thomas Arnold.”

“in 1983, he was sentenced to death for the murder of David Dale Jensen, who was 22, disabled and serving time for a car theft when Creech beat him to death at the Idaho State Penitentiary on May 13, 1981.”

“In addition to the Idaho murders, Creech has been convicted of killing both William Joseph Dean in Oregon and Vivian Grant Robinson in California in 1974. He was also charged with killing Sandra Jane Ramsamooj in Oregon that year, but the charge was later dropped in light of his other murder sentences.

In 1973, Creech was tried for the killing of 70-year-old Paul Schrader in Tucson, Arizona, but was acquitted of the crime. Authorities still believe him to be responsible for Schrader’s death, and say that Creech provided information that led them to bodies of two people near Las Vegas and one person near Baggs, Wyoming.”

I’m of the opinion that the death penalty is not punitive, and it’s not retributive. It’s a way of telling another human being “there is no ‘correcting’ what you have done.”

It needs to be reserved for the most monstrous of crimes and, in this case, 5 undisputed murders plus possibly 5 more? Pull the plug on this guy already. He’s outstayed his welcome.