Idiotic hypocrites, the lot of you.

Now, how will the murder of a mentally-ill man bring back Marcus Gentry? How will it deter other heat-of-passion or premeditated murders? Answer to both questions: It won’t.

The American “justice” system is racist, sexist, and grossly corrupt. Over ten thousand men wrongly convicted by “a jury of their peers” have been released from Death Rows all over America during the last decade as new technology allowed old evidence to be examined in a superior manner, or jury tampering by corrupt prosecutors and judges was revealed, or crooked juries were exposed, or witnesses who lied finally came forward to confess perjury.

The death penalty is too brutal and inhumane a punishment to mete out given the massive flaws in the system that is allowed to impose it, and impose it arbitrarily, as we can see in this case.

And you want to talk about families? How about Bishop’s family, such as it is? I guess your fake sympathy doesn’t extend that far. You and your kind know nothing but bloodlust. You’re disgusting.

Then there’s the fact that the law of the land is not being considered here, as the state of Mississippi requires that capital punishment be meted out only when the defendant had an intent to commit murder, which Bishop did not have. Instead, Bishop thought his job was to hold a mean guy who ratted out his buddy’s brother while his buddy beat the guy up. At no time did Bishop know that his buddy was going to use a claw hammer to murder the man.

Finally, there’s the fact that the murderer is getting a lighter sentence than Bishop. Does that REALLY seem right to you? Setting aside a debate on the morality and ethicality of the death penalty, should a murderer get a lighter sentence than an accomplice who didn’t know that a murder would be taking place? That’s just plain wrong.

I would think so-called conservatives, always railing about the dangerous abuses of the government, would be condemning Mississippi for this unjust judicial abuse.

Marcus Gentry (the victim you’re so “concerned” about that you couldn’t bother to mention him by name) was murdered by Jessie Johnson. Johnson didn’t tell Bishop what he intended, just that he wanted Bishop’s help in kicking Gentry’s ass. Then he surprised Bishop by hammering Gentry to death.

Johnson got life in prison for actually COMMITTING the murder. Bishop got a death sentence because he is mentally ill and requested it.

Now, if you think it’s okay for an unwitting accomplice to be punished more severely than the one who kept him in the dark about the true, premeditated nature of the crime, you have a poorly-developed idea of right and wrong.

Wait a minute, you’re a Republican, so OF COURSE you have a poorly-developed idea of right and wrong. You wouldn’t be a Republican, otherwise.