How do you spell justice in the United States?Why does a prisoner have internet access to the public?

Question

WASHINGTON -- Injecting last-minute uncertainty into a case that has garnered international attention, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a late-hour appeal by Texas death row inmate Jose Ernesto Medellin on Tuesday night, disrupting the timetable for his scheduled execution in the 1993 rape and murder of two Houston teenagers.http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080806/wl_mcclatchy/3010330_1

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I find it ironic Jose pleading for his life. Unlike the deaf ears he had for Jennifer’s plea.

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure justice is spelled like J-U-S-T-I-C-E.

Answer 2

The usa is full of contradictions and very strange ideas

Answer 3

The justice system in the United States needs some serious over-hauling.  It's a little difficult to deprive prisoners of basic rights because of the U. S. Constitution.  They say that even in prison, people have the exact same constitutional rights as those who are not in prison, so they get the internet, 3 squares a day, and in some prison systems a free education and cable TV.  I suppose that the internet is a basic human right to some prison systems.

However, the U. S. Constitution was written for people who want to be part of society and people who obey our society's laws.  I think if people commit crimes, especially violent crimes, the constitution should not apply to them.  But many law makers and those who execute many laws do not share my opinions.  This is why prisoners have access to the internet and public chat forums, etc.  Because our justice system is effed up.  

Answer 4

He's scum... I'm glad they killed him, but it took way too long and cost too much money... as I stated before, it should have only cost enough for a bullet- that his family is billed for.

He doesn't have access to the internet actually... he's writing this in a letter to someone on the other side to put online for him.

Answer 5

I think it's spelled GOD.

somehow our constitution now protects the guilty, and burdons the innocent. For example a child molester was released from a short prizon term, and moved next door to us. Now we have to sell our house , and uproot our family to protect our children.  In isreal he would have been stoned. with such a punishment he would not have done what he did. also a thief under the mosaic law would have to pay back the one he stole from 7 times the value, now the one stole from gets nothing, but has to pay taxes to support the thief in prizon. eye for an eye , tooth for tooth, life for life, he deserves death

Answer 6

a few comments...

i'd like to know why it took over 10 years.  the problem with death row cases is how long they stretch out costing tax payers money.  if their is absolutely no doubt of guilt, then just do it already.

i'd like to know why prisoners on death row have a special myspace (which is what his 'beyond the wall' profile reminded me of.)  geezus.  he was behind that wall for a reason.  

who is Bush to worry about international proprieties when he has muddied his own constitution?  

Answer 7

because america thinks it would be good for child molesters to have contact with children.

Answer 8

A) He obviously doesn't have unlimited internet access, you could click your own provided links to figure that one out

B) As mentioned, the US would happily execute him, but they don't wanna p**s off Mexico.  He'll probably still be executed.  Read your own link, not the headlines then come here trying to make a scene

Addition:  People obviously don't have the same rights in prison as they do in society.  They're in prison.  They can't have a job, earn income, have unauthorized personal possessions, they're on a strict schedule with a set bedtime.  They are granted the most basic human rights, a (relatively)comfortable place to sleep, proper nutrition, and enough recreation time to not go insane and stay relatively healthy.  IF they happen to have internet access, it's brief, tightly controlled, and probably directly monitored by a guard.

Oh and they get raped.  Prison sounds like a resort, eh?  

There certainly are provisions to protect inmates, true, and sometimes they're annoying or unnecessary, but most of them were put in place when governments would regularly abuse their power to incarcerate and torture.  The only way to stop that is to give them NO leeway.  You can't jack around with the justice system in a country with anything resembling a centralized federal government/executive or else it starts taking the steps towards abuse, as history has shown it's almost inevitable.  I'm sure Stalin had great intentions when he first started tossing everyone in prison

Answer 9

Justice was served at 9:57 pm tonight when this man was executed for a heinous crime. Rape, torture, stomping, strangling to death of two young girls.

Friends beyond the wall sponsors will get a reality check when they are forced to bury their loved ones who die at the hands of criminals like Medellin, although I hope none of them ever face such a situation.

Now, I feel disgust after reading the self-serving drivel he had posted there. An expression of regret and an apology to the families' of his victims would have been far more appropriate.

Now, hopefully he is now enlightened by the fires of h**l.