Dad, Son Sentenced to Death in Oregon Bank Bombing

Source: Associated Press

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A jury Wednesday sentenced a father and son to death for planting a bomb that exploded inside an Oregon bank two years ago, killing two police officers and maiming a third.

In a trial that spanned three months, prosecutors portrayed Bruce and Joshua Turnidge as bigoted men who hated authorities, were desperate for money and feared that newly elected President Barack Obama would take away their guns.

Both defendants stood with their lawyers and stared straight forward, showing no emotion as Marion County Circuit Judge Tom Hart read the jury's verdict. Sheriff's deputies handcuffed them with their hands in front of their bodies.

The same jury convicted the men Dec. 8 on 18 counts each of aggravated murder and other charges in the December 2008 bombing at a bank in Woodburn.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/12/22/us/AP-US-Bank-Bombing-Trial.html?_r=1&ref=news

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These guys have it coming.

And it's ALWAYS bad policy to create martyrs to any cause.

I'm totally opposed to the death penalty!

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Little press on this. If they were middle-eastern Muslims, it would be all over the news

Unless we want to be facsists, the death penalty is inappropriate.

I don't like the death penalty either. I'd save it for the truly heinous: kidnapping, torture, abuse....war crimes...crimes against humanity. And only for the Big Bosses, not the little fish.

than to show that you're pissed off at the great Zionist United Nations Bilderberg Conspiracy is 'heinous' enough?

a father and son have quality time together.:wtf:

rots together...

Oh wait...I'm being told killing someone won't, in fact, bring the victims back...

Alright, so we're just barbaric bloodthirsty assholes.

It will be after twenty years of appeals, and a sumptuous last meal. The deceased in their crime were not afforded those luxuries.

But don't worry, this is Oregon, they've only executed a couple of murderers in the last thirty-five years, while having dozens in that time that so richly deserved it.

Obama, Janet Reno, Hillary Clinton, Alan Greenspan and the Pope should personally show up in a black helicopter and take their guns

The death penalty is wrong in all cases. These are two miserable excuses for human beings, but murdering them is nothing more than an act of revenge. It does nothing to repair the harm already done. Just put them away so they can't hurt anyone else.

ages.

I'm also against the death penalty.....not so much because it might involve an innocent person, but more because it is just wrong. Better to let them spend the rest of their life in prison...never to breathe the fresh air again.

and another 80 years to enjoy his show.