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| Topic | Do you support the death penalty sentence in this case? |
| Cocytus 10/12/19 3:39:04 AM #1: | Do you support the death penalty sentence in this case? - Results (6 votes)
1. Yes
50% (3 votes)
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2. No
50% (3 votes)
3
"HOUSTON - Cassidy Stay walked past the jury box with a smile. It lit the spark that fueled her new beginning. Seconds earlier, she spoke her piece to the man who killed her family. A judge on Friday sentenced Ronald Lee Haskell to death by lethal injection, after a jury concluded Haskell remained a continued threat to society. The two-month-long trial, ending a nightmare that played out for five years, ended with Stay's victim impact statement. "For the past five years, I always wanted to know how you felt about me and what type of remorse you felt," stay said. "My family always said that you only felt sorry for yourself and I didn't want to believe that because I thought, 'Surely he has to feel bad for killing my family." Whether Haskell felt bad wasn't a focal point of either side of the debate that determined his life. Rather, it centered on what drove his decision kill: Was it an inability to control the thoughts that triggered his actions or a deeply developed hate for the ex-wife who escaped his grip? Over time, Cassidy found her answer. "When I heard that you felt no remorse, something changed inside of me and I didn't know what to do with that change, and it was causing me a lot of hurt and anger because that was my closure. My closure was the hope that you would feel bad. I no longer had the desire for closure because this is it. There's nothing left on this Earth that will soothe my wounds and worries. Only God can help me now."" ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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