Great example of "Get over it". Yeah, right.... C'mon, justus4 - defend this one too.
COLUMBIA --- Thirteen years ago, a South Carolina jury decided that Joseph Gardner should be executed for helping to rape, torture and kill a white woman in what prosecutors described as his revenge for centuries of oppression against blacks.
State officials said Monday that Mr. Gardner will be put to death Dec. 5 for his crimes. He can choose between lethal injection and electrocution.
Mr. Gardner was assigned to a Navy ship in Charleston in December 1992 when he and several friends began talking about the injustices done to blacks since they were brought to the country as slaves. The group decided to kill a white woman as retribution, said prosecutors, citing a letter found by investigators that contained passages aimed at justifying revenge against whites.
Several of the men saw 25-year-old Melissa "Missi" McLauchlin walking along a road and offered her drugs in exchange for sex. She agreed at first, going back to a home north of Charleston, but later changed her mind. Five men raped her at gunpoint that night, prosecutors said.
The men forced Ms. McLauchlin to bathe, then blindfolded and handcuffed her before putting her on the floorboard of an automobile. Mr. Gardner shot Ms. McLauchlin twice in the face after she got free from the handcuffs and tried to escape. He then shot her three more times on the side of a road near Summerville, authorities said.
The circumstances around Ms. McLauchlin's death stirred racial fears in Charleston just nine months after riots in Los Angeles that followed the acquittal of four white police officers in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King.
Mr. Gardner was the only person sentenced to death in the case.
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Great example of "Get over it". Yeah, right.... C'mon, justus4 - defend this one too.
Were they all charged with hate crimes? Were the other men even found guilty of rape and torture? I guess we should be thankful for getting any information about this at all since the trend is to not report racially motivated crimes committed by blacks. Funny how this isn't front page, talk of the town, because you can bet that if a group of white men raped and killed a black woman just for being black, it would be the topic of every newspaper, news report, and talk show nation wide. Jessie and Al would have set up camp outside the court house demanding death for them all. 20/20 would do a whole show about the back grounds of all 5, and replay a "dramatization" of the crime every 5 minutes. When will the news organizations see that this biased, one sided set of double standards is encouraging this type of stuff by not pointing it out and calling it what it is.
I want to know what happened to the others who assisted in the crime. Hopefully they got life with no parole.
TrukinRanger...come on now, people make terrible mistakes every day, but most of them don't deserve to die for them. Cry..maybe not but no matter what she done she was somebodys daughter, sister who did nothing wrong but except a ride from strangers. That's a small mistake to die for.
Are some of you the same ones that says there is no such thing as a hate crime?
"Thirteen years ago, a South Carolina jury decided that Joseph Gardner should be executed for helping to rape, torture and kill a white woman in what prosecutors described as his revenge for CENTURIES of oppression against blacks. " LOL;;how old was this guy??? 200??? 300????
My parents were living in Charleston when that happened. If this is the same story I'm thinking of, there was extreme torture involved and they used bleach on her in attempt to cover up the crime. For Truckranger, though I don't condone anyone who uses drugs, this didn't call for her being murdered and if it wasn't her, it would have been someone else. They had already made up their mind they were going to do this to a white woman.
The murder and torture alone, IMHO were reasons enough for the death penalty.
Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago, Illinois who was murdered by several white men in Money, Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. Till had been beaten and his eye had been gouged out, before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire. His body was in the river for three days before it was discovered and retrieved by two fishermen. The main suspects were acquitted, but later admitted to committing the crime.
On page 6B of today's paper headline says: Man will die for 1992 rape, killing motivated by race. This woman was murdered in Charleston, SC nine months after the Rodney King beating across the country in California. Why do I remember every blasted detail about the Rodney King beating on the opposite coast, and didn't hear ANYTHING about this racially-motivated murder in a city so close to us? Even today, it is buried on the bottom right corner of a deep inside page. I don't believe in the death penalty, but I do think it is important to know what is going on in a city so close to home.
Posted by baroness on Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:42 AM
ALL crimes are hate crimes.
I wish that the negros would understand slavery. They were slaves in Africa to other negros and bought and brought over to America. Why do they want to blame the whites for this? If a cocassion male had done this to a negro female then I would hope that he would get the same death sentence.
GSneed, Till deserved it. Melissa "Missi" McLauchlin, didn't. Get it.
It would be wonderful if the State would sell lotto tickets to see who gets to throw the switch. Support the death penalty and support www.hongkongaugustaga.org ...
POFWE, you are a straight IDIOT. So Till deserved it for whistling at a White lady? You are a very sick individual and hopefully no one decides that you deserve the sane thing.
TrukinRanger--ur sick! the exchange was drugs for sex, not drugs for death! what a heathenistic comment! it wasn't a good choice regardless, but there is no justification for this sick behavior.
Mutt: The only people charged with the "hate crime law" are white people; for some reason, legislators and law enforcement seem to believe others are incapable of committing a 'hate crime," even when the perpetrator admits to it. I think it is disgusting, but that is the reality of how that particular law is applied. Far as I am concerned, either repeal the law or hold anyone who commits a 'hate crime' accountable and have it added to the list of charges when they are arraigned before the judge. And barroness, not all murders are hate crimes--some are done for the sheer joy of the criminal act and the euphoria they feel during and immediately after the death occurs. That is what some murderers have actualy stated during interviews with correctional officials. So like it or not, murders are committed for a wide variety of reasons other than hate.
pofwe...My point was that people of all races do some idiotic things. Just as the Klan did when they recently beat a Panamanian teen to death because the idiots thoughts he was an illegal immagrant. Courts awarded the beaten boy +$2million. Now back to Emmitt...So Till deserved it, for whistling at a white woman?! Whoa!!!!! Man, you are sick! You are absolutely no better than any of those that committed those heinous crimes. Not that you care, but I have lost ALL respect for you.
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