Way to get it wrong again, legal system.
Prosecutors have decided against the death penalty regarding the four scumbags charged with the murder of Miami Hurricane safety great, Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor whent the killing took place.
Even if Eric Rivera was 17-years and a handful of months when he cowardly shot the Pro Bowl safety in his bedroom, it seems moronic that the others directly involved cannot be tried as adults because the minor pulled the trigger – unless they were ‘directly’ responsible. Co-defendants can’t be subject to the death penalty if the alleged shooter isn’t.
Let’s get this straight – Rivera was man enough to take a life, but due to a legal loophole, not man enough to receive a death sentence for doing so.
Pardon my French, but the irony in that is utter bulls**t and downright pathetic. Is there really that big a difference between 17-years and seven months versus 18-years of age? Rivera is legally a man now, but wasn’t last November when the thug and his cronies broke into Taylor’s home, with the intent to rob him blind?
Seeing these four scumbags pay the ultimate price wouldn’t bring Taylor back. I’m not even sure how I feel about Capital Punishment as general rule, but I do know that hearing “life in prison” for these four selfish S.O.B.’s doesn’t seem like justice to me.
Rivera and crew will pay when they finally meet their maker, but for now I pray their jail sentence shows them just how rotten this world can really be if you take a life and choose the path they’ve chosen. I
hope for them the death sentence would’ve been the easy way out and that every moment they rot in jail is a living hell for them. They deserve to forever be haunted by the memory of what they did and for taking the beloved Sean Taylor from those who needed him here.