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Pa. Cop Killer Convicted of 1st Degree Murder
posted 11/19/09
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Twenty-three-year-old John Lewis was found guilty Thursday afternoon of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 54-year-old Officer Chuck Cassidy. Lewis shot Cassidy in the head when the officer walked in on a robbery at a North Philadelphia doughnut shop.
Lewis pleaded guilty to a general charge of murder and a string of increasingly violent armed robberies last week. The jury was deciding whether to convict him of first- or second-degree murder.
The jury will now determine whether Lewis deserves life in prison or the death penalty.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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posted by: G-Hart on 9:53 am on 11/20/09
When a person kills another person in cold blood, then it should be an automatic death penalty. When these criminals violate another innocent person's rights, the criminal should no longer have any rights! Our legal system fights for the criminals, not the victims. Sometimes it seems that life would be easier to be a criminal than being a peaceful hard-working citizen. Our country's laws allow criminals to still maintain their rights even after they have violated the laws. Then the taxpayers get to pay for them while they sit in prison. Just rid our country of all these losers.
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