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Prosecutorial
\n pit bull John Ashcroft, obviously with time on his hands despite the
\n war on terrorism, the fight for the Patriot Act, and the ongoing proceedings
\n against current miscreants, has been delving into the archives to find
\n underpenalized past cases to which he can apply the death sentence retroactively.
\n The latest such case involves the murderers of 10-year-old Jeffry Curley
\n of Cambridge.<\/p>\n
If anyone could be said to be poster boys for capital punishment, short
\n of Timothy McVeigh or Usama Bin Laden, it is the two slimebags who kidnapped
\n and murdered this kid. Charles Jaynes, the convict Ashcroft is considering
\n bringing federal charges aginst, killed the Curley by sticking a gas-soaked
\n rag in his mouth after he refused the
\n man’s
\n sexual
\n advances.
\n Curley’s
\n body was placed in the trunk of Jaynes’s car, stuffed in a plastic container,
\n and then dumped into a southern Maine river. <\/p>\n
Massachusetts does not have a death penalty.Although such a trial would
\n be highly unusual, even lawyers who oppose the death penalty conceded
\n yesterday that the government is within its rights to pursue the case,
\n because state and US courts are separate, sovereign judicial entities.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors at the US attorney’s office in Boston declined to comment
\n yesterday on developments in the case. <\/p>\n
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