What a cold, evil woman to allow a man to die in her windshield in her garage.
I would have given her life in prison. But, I can live with the 60 years, provided she stays in at least half of it.
Texas Windshield Murder Trial Begins
by TresHappy 186 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Realist
Sheila,
Well, lost my last post.
yes i noticed! i apologize for my remark.
What I am saying is your are not a humanist.
interesting...what constitutes a humanist for you?
You work on a very small part of what makes us human.
actually biology together with the other scientific disciplines works on every aspect of what makes us human. there is no such thing as an unaccountable soul. it is all biochemistry, electrochemistry and molecular interactions.
You prefer to reduce everything down to an illness or not.
we reduce everything down to the actual cause. decisions should be based on logic and evidence not emotions.
This is not reality anymore than you blaming it on demons.
demons are an infantile fantasy...molecular neurobiology is not.
Therefore there is no need to discuss it.
thats unfortunate.
hen you are willing to go and tour a morgue and talk to victims and look at some autopsy photos. But, hopefully them you would see where your course of action leaves vicitms victimized again and again. "Evil prevails when good men choose to do nothing."
nice try. i will repeat it again...i am NOT for letting dangerous individuals back into society. i am against a hate and revenge thursty society. not because i have no compassion for the victims but because a more civilized society will produce less victims!
I agree she was not even sorry only sorry she got caught.
if this is indeed true (i have not seen the trail on TV) than she obviously poses a potential threat to society and should be kept in tedention.
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Valis
she needs to go to jail...I don't know for how long, but she could have had the nerve to save his life. In all my years, I have known people to be wacked out on all kinds of drugs, but if something went dangerously wrong they had the guts to stick it out and call for help. She failed the humanity/cool test big time. I was once at a house where a bunch of idiots was taking prescription pills for fun and they were playing with a loaded .45 colt revolver....It wnet off and this guy shot himself in the head...total idiot, but sad...anyway, the people who owned the apartment called the cops immediately...They didn't care about all the other stuff laying around...its called taking responsibility...The cops took the body away and the gun, but didn't bother with anything else...triple beams, knives, roaches, etc..Amazing what happens sometimes when you buck up and do the right thing.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
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Valis
Your post reminds me of something. Once I was at a party, a keger. And this old drunk man passed out by the fire. Someone started throwing big logs onto the fire and it was huge.
This man was inches away from the fire, and his clothes began to smoke. There were at least 25 people, standing around him laughing!!!
I couldn't believe it. I got really upset, and grabbed the poor guy, and began to drag him away from the bonfire. Only a few of the guys pitched in and came to their senses.
Scary huh?
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Xena
I am curious realist....what price do you put on human life?
This man who died...innocent of any wrongdoing against this woman...this man who was minding his own business when she barreled into HIS life...and made herself judge and jury of HIM and deemed him worthy to die...what about his rights? She took his life away from him...no early release for him...no prospect of a future outside of death....he can't communicate with his family or friends anymore...she robbed him of that. So what price do you put on that? 60 years in jail...maybe less...did she give him that when she left him there to die?
Personally I feel the lack of adequate consequences for actions is a bigger danger to our society than the death penalty.
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Realist
I am curious realist....what price do you put on human life?
i don't put a price on a human life.
This man who died...innocent of any wrongdoing against this woman...this man who was minding his own business when she barreled into HIS life...and made herself judge and jury of HIM and deemed him worthy to die...what about his rights? She took his life away from him...no early release for him...no prospect of a future outside of death....he can't communicate with his family or friends anymore...she robbed him of that. So what price do you put on that? 60 years in jail...maybe less...did she give him that when she left him there to die?
yes she commited a crime and she has to pay a price for that (which is being isolated from society for the protection of the others). however by demanding her getting killed for reasons of revenge you are adhering to archaic ideology. the codex hammurabi and the old testament are long outdated and are nothing but ballast to our society. a civilized society is not achieved by the an eye for an eye mentality but solely by a humanitarian society.
Personally I feel the lack of adequate consequences for actions is a bigger danger to our society than the death penalty.
so killing this woman would prevent a similar case in the future? nonsense! it was the fear for punishment that made her let the man die. the point is a harder punishment or fear of such would not have changed her actions. neither would it prevent child abuse or murder.
by the way...did she state the man was still alive when she arrived at the garage? if not how does one know the man was still alive at the time? is that simply your assumption or is this a fact?
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Xena
She told police she hit the man with such force, he jammed into the windshield of her car where he remained, moaning, for a few hours.Mallard told police that in October 2001 her car hit Gregory Biggs, 37, with such force that his head and shoulders jammed into the windshield and his legs were bent over the roof, his trousers tearing almost completely off his body.
Instead of stopping, police say, she drove about one mile down a six-lane highway, the man still lodged and bleeding in the jagged windshield, then continued through town to her home in a working-class neighborhood.Prosecution witnesses said Biggs probably lived for two hours, might have been moaning and gasping, and could have survived with medical treatment.
``She stole his life,'' prosecutor Richard Alpert said in closing arguments. ``She stole his hope of anyone else saving his life. That's murder.''
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas jury has taken less than an hour to find a woman guilty of murdering a homeless man she struck with her car and left to die stuck in the windshield.
Mallard hit Biggs after a night of drinking and drug use, then drove the nearly two miles (3.2 km) home with him stuck in the windshield, his body hanging down into the car and his legs sprawled on the hood.
Prosecutors said she left Biggs to slowly die in her darkened garage over the next few hours while she plotted with friends on how to dispose of the body.
Medical experts said Biggs bled to death from a nearly amputated left leg. He also suffered a fractured arm and two fractures to his right leg, as well as numerous abrasions.
Prosecutor Christy Jack said in her closing arguments that when Mallard drove with Biggs wedged in her car and decided to shut her garage door instead of calling for help, she guaranteed his death.
"Every breath he drew was more painful than the last. Merely inches away was a woman who held his life in the palm of her hand," Jack said.
Jack said Mallard knew Biggs was alive in her car when she shut her garage door and started calling her friends, and every decision made after that time was done with the intent of trying to get away with the crime and not seeking to help him.
"There is no question that Chante's failure to render aid or call for assistance probably caused his death," Mallard's attorney, James Kearney, said in closing arguments.
The medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Biggs testified on Wednesday the homeless man must have been in excruciating pain and would have lived if he received prompt medical attention for his wounds
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i don't put a price on a human life.
that is obvious from your comments
yes she commited a crime and she has to pay a price for that (which is being isolated from society for the protection of the others). however by demanding her getting killed for reasons of revenge you are adhering to archaic ideology. the codex hammurabi and the old testament are long outdated and are nothing but ballast to our society. a civilized society is not achieved by the an eye for an eye mentality but solely by a humanitarian society.
the same humanitarion society that allows child molesters back out on the streets? The same humanitarian society that allows convicted rapists and murders back out to kill and rape again? thanks but no thanks...the punishment should fit the crime...personally I don't have a problem with an eye for an eye justice...it's called CONSEQUENCES for your actions...and if you have these maybe you will think twice before offending. When the case is clear cut as this one is...justice should be served.
so killing this woman would prevent a similar case in the future? nonsense! it was the fear for punishment that made her let the man die. the point is a harder punishment or fear of such would not have changed her actions. neither would it prevent child abuse or murder.
She isn't getting the death penalty it was never an option for this type of case (unfortunately if you ask me) so bascially she is getting the punishment you proscribed...and that is what she was afraid of...I think if she had thought her life might be forfit if she let him die, she would have tried harder to keep him alive.