Horrific: Luke appeared in court in May 2009
with a swastika carved into his forehead. He claimed the killings were racially
motivated (PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329626/Brockton-Massachusetts-rape-White-supremacist-Keith-Luke-laughs-sex-assault-victim-testifies-him.html)
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Keller @ Large: Keith Luke Reason To
Re-Evaluate Death Penalty
June 2, 2013
Reporting Jon Keller
BOSTON (CBS) – Selma
Goncalves, her friends and family say, was a warm person who loved
samba dancing. She worked at a Brockton dry cleaner and studied English in
hopes of going to college so she could, says a friend, “get a good job helping
people.”
Seventy-two year old
Arlindo Goncalves was a homeless man described by friends as “harmless.” He
lived in a Brockton shelter and spent his days collecting cans.
He and Selma
Goncalves weren’t related. All they really had in common was they weren’t
white, more than enough cause for Keith Luke, a
self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, to murder them in cold blood three years ago, in the
course of a crime spree where he raped a woman and tried to murder her along
with several other bystanders, including a Brockton police officer.
If you haven’t been
following the trial of this creature, I don’t blame you, it’s been hard to
watch because the defendant may be the single most repulsive specimen I’ve ever
seen.
His lawyer doesn’t
dispute that he committed the crimes, only that he was so mentally ill he
didn’t know what he was doing, a long shot defense undercut by clear evidence
of his careful pre-meditation.
Luckily for this
violent, hate-filled animal, Massachusetts has no death penalty, an unlucky
development for the convicts he will be living with for the rest of his
miserable life. He poses a clear threat to the prisoners and guards.
And the thought of
what it will cost to feed and clothe him for the next 50 years or so is
infuriating.
Reasonable people can
and do oppose the death penalty on principle.
But Keith Luke and
the damage he has done and will do in the future should at least make you
re-evaluate that opposition.
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