I have flip-flopped: I now support the death penalty

[Republican Rapper]

I had been convinced otherwise, but this heinous case has me in 100% support of a gruesome death for these evil men who slaughtered two families in Richmond.

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Sources close to the investigation said the New Year's Day slayings appeared to have been committed with items that were found in the family's home on West 31st Street in the Woodland Heights neighborhood. According to the sources, those items included sharp objects, such as knives, as well as items used to inflict blunt-force trauma.

Police yesterday confirmed that the Harveys had been bound with tape and had their throats cut.

The state medical examiner has not released the cause and manner of death for Bryan Harvey, 49; Kathryn Harvey, 39; and their daughters, Stella, 9, and Ruby, 4.

The family was found in the basement of their home on Sunday afternoon. Firefighters responded to the two-story brick structure after a friend who arrived early for a 2 p.m. cookout entered the house and discovered smoke.

Stella Harvey had arrived home about 10 a.m. after attending a New Year's Eve sleepover at a friend's house.
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Two men arrested in Philadelphia today have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in seven slayings in South Richmond this week.

Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe announced the charges tonight at a hastily arranged news conference at police headquarters.

Monroe said Richmond police believe Ray Joseph Dandridge, 28, and Ricky Gevon Gray, 28, are responsible for the New Year's Day slayings of four members of a family on West 31st Street in Woodland Heights and last night's slaying of three members of a family on East Broad Rock Road.

 

[swea_pea1]

I have been trying to wrap my brain around how anybody can do this to those two little girls. It's heinous enough for the parents, but killing the children that way, to me is just inconceivable.

Another family, although robbed, was left unharmed (thank God), but identified a woman as an accomplice. Dandridge and Gray then killed her, her mother, and her mother's husband:

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servle...TD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128769195145

I will tell you that since this happened, my door has been locked every moment of every day. If anybody ever did that to my children, they had better kill me too because I could never live with it. My heart breaks for the families of these poor souls. May they rest in peace.

 

[PixieDust32]

I do support the death penalty also. If someone has or think the have the right to take the life of inocent people, inocent kids, why should they be alive! Kill them all, less for us to support in state and federal prisions.

 

[Mamu]

I sometimes think the death penalty is cruel and inhumane, but crimes like this prove me wrong.

 

[Skywalker]

I'm another who does not normally support the death penalty, and I have a very good personal reason why.

However...in this case, sign me up. I'd administer it myself.

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

This story is absolutely heartbreaking.

How anyone can take another person's life is beyond me. Especially the life of a stranger just because you are robbing them - not a crime of passion because this person hurt you. But what really boggles my mind is how those animals could look into the eyes of those two little girls and then slit their throats. I should have never called them animals. That is an insult to all the animals of the world. Scum. These two better be on Virginia's fast track to death row.

Those people in Chesterfield that they didn't kill don't know how lucky they are. Although I would be living in fear for the rest of my life worrying about retaliation from a family member or friend of these scumbags for being key to finding out who did this horrible act.

DW Lauri has lived in Chesterfield for a good part of her life. She told me it used to be so safe. She joked that the Ten Most Wanted in Chesterfield showed you how safe it was - it was full of bad check writers.

Not anymore. Crime has moved on in from the city.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

However...in this case, sign me up. I'd administer it myself.

You may have to get in line just to sign up on this one.