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Jennifer and Scott
Otremba, the parents of murder victim Alyssa Otremba, attend Javier Righetti’s
trial at the Regional Justice Center on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, in Las Vegas.
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It diminishes the victims when people burn candles and mourn someone who
has committed a heinous crime. People on death row are some of the worst
individuals that appear on the face of the earth. The abolitionists refuse to
acknowledge that evil exists and evil has to be put down. – Marc Klaas
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We, the members of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, hopes that Nevada
will not abolish the death penalty. We will pray. Hear from this victim’s
family member and see this article.
NEVADA DEATH PENALTY: Grieving family fears murderer will live
Javier Righetti
sentenced to death in 2017
By: Austin Carter
Posted at 9:35 PM, Apr 13, 2021
and last updated 3:13 PM, Apr 14, 2021
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — 23 states have
done away with the death penalty, and now Nevada is one step closer to joining
that list as a new bill passed through the Nevada Assembly.
However, one Las Vegas family
says the man who murdered their daughter deserves to die.
Half a decade was how long it
took Jennifer Otremba to get justice for her 15-year-old daughter.
Alyssa Otremba was raped,
tortured and murdered by Javier Righetti in 2011.
Jennifer Otremba spoke to 13
Action News when that ruling came down in 2017.
“This journey is hard
and it is just beginning for us,” said
Otremba. “We still have a life to live without
Aalyssa."
The journey since has come along
with another painful punch.
“I’m disgusted, angry
and heartbroken,” says Otremba.
“He didn’t consider her
life when he took it, so I don’t understand why these lawmakers would consider
his.”
On Tuesday, the Nevada Assembly
approved Assembly Bill 395, which would abolish Nevada’s death penalty.
RELATED: Nevada
Assembly approves bill that would get rid of death penalty
Jennifer wrote a letter of
opposition to lawmakers regarding the bill, and now she fears the life of her
daughter’s killer could be spared.
“I feel like they are putting the
life of a murder as priority and above the justice of the life of my daughter,”
says Otremba.
On the other side, some are
calling the Nevada Assembly’s approval a step towards ending a “barbaric”
practice.
“It’s not a system of vengeance,
it’s a system of justice," says Holly Wellborn, ACLU Nevada Policy
Director.
Welborn says this is a historic
bill not only for Nevada, but for the country, and hopes it is passed.
“We’re one of the only developed
western countries that still has the death penalty, so it’s time to do what is
just,” says Welborn.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.ktnv.com/news/nevada-death-penalty-grieving-family-fears-murderer-will-live
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1941082279376467&id=1299628893521812
YOUTUBE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wODZcwnILz0
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If the death penalty was not imposed then "wrong really has finally
totally triumphed over right and all civilised society, all we hold dear, is
the loser."
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The Facts Death Penalty Opponents Don’t Want You to See
April 6, 2021
By vrobison Leave a Comment
By ANNIE
BLACK
Nevada
Assemblywoman
The Legislature is considering two bills to eliminate the death penalty in Nevada. And the arguments are as old as they are uncompelling.
The “racist” argument ignores the fact that of the 12 killers executed in Nevada since 1976, nine were white and only one black. Regardless, this issue isn’t, and shouldn’t be, about the killer’s race, but the killer’s guilt.
The “cost” argument is due to killers being allowed to abuse the criminal justice system to delay having their sentence carried out. Once executed, the taxpayer cost to house, feed, clothe and provide medical care drops to zero.
The “no deterrent” argument is a smoke screen. Fact is, every executed murderer has been permanently deterred from ever killing again. And make no mistake, killers sentenced to life-in-prison have killed while behind bars.
In fact, the Associated Press reported in February that “An Indiana inmate convicted of a 2002 triple murder fatally stabbed one corrections officer and seriously injured another at the maximum-security prison where he’s serving a 130-year sentence.”
But the worst part about the organized campaign to eliminate capital punishment for the most heinous murderers is how they show such compassion for the killer while conveniently overlooking what the killer did to get on death row in the first place.
Two examples…
1.) On
January 20, 2008, a college student named Brianna Denison was kidnapped, raped
and brutally murdered by James Biela, who is currently on Nevada’s death row.
Her murder was committed just two months after Biela brutally raped at gunpoint
another college student in a UNR parking garage.
Miss Denison’s body, clothed only in socks, was found weeks after the murder in a snow-covered field near a Reno business park under a discarded Christmas tree. She had been smothered with a pillow, raped, and ultimately strangled to death.
DNA evidence conclusively proved Biela was Miss Denison’s killer. He was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death by a jury. Bri was only 19 years old with her entire life ahead of her.
But James Biela gave her the death penalty. He should get the same. And the sooner the better.
2.) In the early morning hours of June 3, 1999, Zane Floyd walked into a neighborhood grocery store in Las Vegas and brutally executed four innocent Nevadans with a shotgun, including a mentally disabled young man and a 60-year-old grandmother who begged for her life.
After his arrest, Mr. Floyd told a detective that he “looked right at her and I just blew her head apart.” One of the police officers who captured Floyd at the scene of the bloody rampage recently wrote me about the incident. Floyd said to him, “I probably shouldn’t have done that. She reminded me of my mom.”
There is no doubt about Mr. Floyd’s guilt. He was given a fair trial and sentenced to death by a jury. Considering the circumstances, it was the right and proper sentence.
What’s not right is the ability of these murderers to string out the execution of their sentence for years with endless appeals, as has been the case for Floyd. It’s now been over 20 years since his murder spree.
Addressing our broken appeals process is what we should be doing today, not eliminating the death penalty for murderers who showed no such mercy or compassion for their victims and the victims’ families.
Annie Black is the Nevada State Assemblywoman representing District 19 which includes, in part, Virgin Valley and Overton.
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Legislator/A/Assembly/Current/19
INTERNET SOURCE: https://mvprogress.com/2021/04/06/the-facts-death-penalty-opponents-dont-want-you-to-see/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3350621811720081/permalink/3817406825041575/
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My sentiments are more
in favour of the victim than they are of the murderer. There is a tendency
nowadays when any matter of criminal law is discussed to think far more of the
criminal than his victim. - Chief Justice Rayner Goddard
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OTHER LINKS:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76319863/alyssa-page-otremba
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