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STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: LOL, U.S. JUSTICE SYSTEM ()
Date: June 17, 2013 11:10AM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is scheduled to be released Monday after serving a prison term that was shortened after the state Supreme Court intervened.

Paula Cooper's death sentence at such a young age sparked international protests and a plea for clemency from Pope John Paul II. Now 43 years old, Cooper is being given a second chance at her life.

Cooper was 15 when she and three other teenage girls showed up at Ruth Pelke's house on May 14, 1985, with plans of robbing the 78-year-old Bible school teacher. Pelke let Cooper and two of the teen's companions into her Gary home after they told her they were interested in Bible lessons.

As the fourth teen waited outside as a lookout, Cooper stabbed Pelke 33 times with a butcher knife. Then she and the other girls ransacked the house. The four girls fled with Pelke's car and $10.

Cooper's three accomplices were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 25 to 60 years. But Cooper, who confessed to Pelke's slaying, was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair. At the time — in 1986 — she was the youngest death row inmate in the U.S.

Some people believed Cooper deserved to die, but the punishment enraged human rights activists and death penalty opponents around the world, including those who viewed the teen as a victim of a racist criminal justice system.

Pope John Paul II urged that Cooper be granted clemency in 1987, and in 1988 a priest brought a petition to Indianapolis with more than 2 million signatures protesting Cooper's sentence.

The Indiana Supreme Court set Cooper's death sentence aside in 1988 and ordered her to serve 60 years in prison after state legislators passed a law raising Indiana's minimum age limit for execution from 10 to 16. The state's high court also cited a 1988 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court barring the execution of juveniles younger than 16 at the time of the crime.

Since then, the U.S. Supreme Court has found it unconstitutional to execute anyone younger than 18.

"People still know about this case," Indianapolis attorney Jack Crawford, who was the Lake County prosecutor during Cooper's murder trial, told The Indianapolis Star. "The name Paula Cooper still resonates, and she's going to attract some attention when she is released."

But, he said, Cooper has done her time and may yet contribute to society. Crawford said he has come to oppose the death penalty since Cooper's conviction.

Cooper's sister, Rhonda Labroi, said she hopes people will see Paula as more than a killer. After getting in trouble 23 times during her time in prison, Paula Cooper turned to education, earning a bachelor's degree in 2001.

"She was just a child at the time that happened, and now she is an adult and people should wait and see and give her a chance," Labroi said. "Give her an opportunity. Maybe she'll do some wonderful things for children who are growing up and aren't so fortunate, like she was.

"There are second chances," she said. "It seems like God has given her another chance. I think if people give her a second chance, she'll do fine."
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Well the almighty U.S. justice system and its' wisdom shows us once again why this nation is just going into a shithole spiral.

CUE THE 3 STOOGES THEME!!!!

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: Libtard Rationalizations ()
Date: June 17, 2013 11:15AM

But she's really sorry about it now.

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: doodooda ()
Date: June 17, 2013 11:25AM

Yes, she is the victim here?

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: Enrico Palazzo ()
Date: June 17, 2013 11:28AM

It's amazing to me how many people wanted to stop this piece of trash from getting the death penalty back then. They should be the ones to foot the bill to house guard and feed her then.

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: BEH ()
Date: June 17, 2013 11:46AM

This sub human will kill again,bet money on it.

Her crime was so vile on so many levels.

Cowardly, because she picked the most helpless victim.

Brutal, stabbed her victim 33 times. That is pure savagery.

Hopefully a horrible death awaits her. Cancer, Aids, Multiple Sclerosis, maybe a combination of, or all of the above.

A horrific car crash, burnt to death in a fire, no death is too gruesome for a piece of shit like this.

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: Sayeth The Lord ()
Date: June 17, 2013 11:55AM

My guess, BEH, is that you are not a Christian.

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: 33 times ()
Date: June 17, 2013 12:40PM

"She was just a child at the time that happened, and now she is an adult and people should wait and see and give her a chance," Labroi said. "Give her an opportunity. Maybe she'll do some wonderful things for children who are growing up and aren't so fortunate, like she was.

Im sorry did she give her victim a second chance - not so much. In fact stabbing someone 33 times is a pretty determined act with the intent being NOT giving your victim any chance. Now after all these years Im sure this woman is a wonderful human. I say make her the slave of surviving family members without any human rights. As a wonderful human Im sure this woman would be greatly rewarded serving those she so brutally hurt. I think it would be fun to make her do every chore 33 times in memory of her brutality. Need a hole dug - have her dig it and fill it 33 times. Need your bathroom cleaned after a mexican meal - have her clean it 33 times and so on.

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: The Hard Truth ()
Date: June 17, 2013 12:53PM

Sayeth The Lord Wrote:
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> My guess, BEH, is that you are not a Christian.

Sorry, but this is reality and here in reality "WWJD" doesn't apply to situations like this.

This subhuman piece of shit should've been fired years ago. My, how our justice system has failed us.

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: Sayeth The Lord ()
Date: June 17, 2013 01:02PM

The Hard Truth Wrote:
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> Sayeth The Lord Wrote:
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> -----
> > My guess, BEH, is that you are not a Christian.
>
> Sorry, but this is reality and here in reality
> "WWJD" doesn't apply to situations like this.

Forgiveness...redemption...salvation.

Christian values.

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: oh shiznit!!!! ()
Date: June 17, 2013 01:07PM

Sayeth The Lord Wrote:
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> The Hard Truth Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Sayeth The Lord Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > My guess, BEH, is that you are not a
> Christian.
> >
> > Sorry, but this is reality and here in reality
> > "WWJD" doesn't apply to situations like this.
>
> Forgiveness...redemption...salvation.
>
> Christian values.

STAB YOU IN THE BACK...TURN THE OTHER CHEEK...FUCK YOU

AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM VALUES TO THE INNOCENT VICTIMS!

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: The Hard Truth ()
Date: June 17, 2013 01:09PM

Sayeth The Lord Wrote:
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> Forgiveness...redemption...salvation.
>
> Christian values.

I'm not saying those aren't good things to practice, but this murderer deserves none of those. I'm sure you've heard about one of Aesop's Fables called "The Farmer and the Viper"? Evil should not be met with kindness, but with destruction.

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: Numbers ()
Date: June 17, 2013 01:42PM

Why do they repeatedly point out that she was a bible school teacher? Is that supposed to make the murder sound worse than if the old lady had been a janitor?

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: June 17, 2013 02:29PM

She posts here as Stabitha.

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Re: STABBED 33 TIMES
Posted by: Young Curmudgeon ()
Date: June 17, 2013 06:37PM

Sayeth The Lord Wrote:
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> My guess, BEH, is that you are not a Christian.

The Law is clear: Thou shalt not murder.

Very simple.

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