In past years the death penalty got a bad name for miscarriages of justice, especially when minority defendants were executed for flimsy or corrupted evidence.
By John McClaughry
Here’s a really distressing news report. “A Nevada man was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the death of a 27-year-old man in 2021 who was tortured, shot and forced to walk off a cliff, the Nye County District Attorney’s office confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Brad Mehn was found guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping with a deadly weapon in the fatal shooting of Roy Jaggers, 27, whose body was discovered at the bottom of Cathedral Canyon in Nye County.
Two others involved in the murder pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder.
Nye County District Attorney Brian Kunzi said in a statement to Fox News Digital, “We have now obtained murder convictions for the three individuals involved in this heinous crime, who are all facing lengthy prison terms.”
According to prosecutors, the victim was lured to Pate’s house in Las Vegas, handcuffed and beaten, wrapped in a tarp and put in the back of a car. The three perpetrators drove him to Nye County and tortured him for hours with multiple weapons including a blow torch, knives and an ax before forcing him to strip and walk off a cliff.
In past years the death penalty got a bad name for miscarriages of justice, especially when minority defendants were executed for flimsy or corrupted evidence. In cases like this one, and with serial killers, where the guilt is indisputable, it’s time to bring it back.
John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. Reprinted with permission from the Ethan Allen Institute Blog.
I read an article where one state had trouble finding the drugs for lethal injections. Sheesh, haven’t they hear of Fentanyl.
yes bring back the death penalty along with longer terms. Revolving door justice isn’t working as shown by the rising crime stats. Frying on the electric chair should be a viewed event for some crimes like mass shooting.
Time to get dirty not play nice.
Longer sentences?
This system obviously doesn’t work and needs to be completely rewritten
I mean someone can rap and kidnap and be out in 5 or lesss but someone gets caught selling drugs and they can be looking at 25 plus years
Our system is messed up.
Like locking up addicts and then releasing them with no rehabilitation , & then your surprised to see them back two months later. That’s because they need help , not punishment
Our system is more then flawed but making sentences longer, isn’t gonna help a god damn thing