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Horrific Nightmare: Woman Experiences 19 Hour Rape Ordeal

nytimes.com — The time crept by so slowly and painfully that the 23-year-old Columbia University journalism student had decided it was time to end her life. Over many torturous hours, she had been repeatedly raped, sodomized and forced to perform oral sex, a prosecutor told a jury on Thursday.

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  • BCCStu, on 06/06/2008, -8/+617I want to throw up...just a disgusting display of humanity by this horrible horrible person. Literally, got sick reading this article. Hope the bastard who did this rots in hell.
    • morningchai, on 06/06/2008, -4/+60I just read this headline and the brief description in my RSS feed and I don't think I can even open the article. Sh*t like this makes me so furious at mankind.
      • HubrisDeadPan, on 06/06/2008, -23/+7Toss out the bushel of apples because one of them is rotten? :/
        • starmanfalls, on 06/06/2008, -6/+0What the ***** is that supposed to mean? *****
        • Risingashes, on 06/07/2008, -2/+6Please don't be logical in a time like this. Clearly humanity is doomed and something this horrible has never happened before.

          These are the end times. All is corrupt and dead. Repent.
        • HonestAbe, on 06/07/2008, -1/+2They're all rotten.
      • mrASSMAN, on 06/07/2008, -0/+5if you can't handle the digg description, don't read the article... it gets much worse.
      • digg-dugg, on 06/07/2008, -5/+1geez, nobody has a sense of humor anymore
    • rileyhallwood, on 06/06/2008, -2/+28agreed completely. my stomach is still rolling.
      • RedViper1999, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2I just popped in 4 antacids, I'm pretty sure I'm going to throw up.
    • had3l, on 06/06/2008, -43/+3Yeah, and he obviously can't use the "surprise sex" defense since it lasted more than 30 minutes.
    • Jhiaxuz, on 06/06/2008, -4/+73"He was charged in a murder as a juvenile, though the outcome of that case is sealed, a law enforcement official said, and he spent eight years in prison for an attempted-murder conviction in 1996."

      I don't know what makes me more sick: the person who commited the crime or the people who allowed him back on the streets.
      • heliox, on 06/06/2008, -11/+24That's why these ***** should be EXECUTED. A little needle in the arm then, and this lady wouldn't have been tortured.
        • mutz, on 06/07/2008, -10/+2that's the easy way, prevent this *****... he was freaking out as juvenile... do something about it... example: social security, good school, drugfree live, good government and peace in the world...
        • ArcticRain, on 06/07/2008, -6/+16I have never understood the death penalty argument. I agree with the above poster in that it is much more painful to rot in a cell then it is to be killed. If you really want this person to pay, let them rot is solitary confinement for life, no chance of parole. That is true misery.
        • HonestAbe, on 06/07/2008, -1/+7Or, you know, lock him up forever.
        • lbdinh, on 06/07/2008, -3/+12He deserves to be castrated and then executed. He's not worthy of my tax money keeping this bastard alive in prison.
        • Fartag, on 06/07/2008, -3/+15@ArcticRain

          I've never understand why people that are squeamish about quickly killing somebody would argue for something even more tortuous! It seems like either a red herring argument, or "church logic" at work.

          It costs a lot of resources and time to rehabilitate someone, shouldn't that be allocated towards educating and rehabilitating those that didn't already knowingly impose and take advantage of someone's weakness to exact _irreparable_ costs in pain and suffering, all the while missing every cue for humanity to enter as their victim begs for mercy?

          People feel good to empathize, but in cases like this I'd draw the line. Someone out of their kindness helping someone like this (rehabilitation, etc) ends up wasting _everyone's_ time and resources because their help could have been spent on just about anything else more beneficially.
        • btschul, on 06/07/2008, -2/+6The obvious punishment is do whatever he did to her to him. The punishment fits the crime that way. (and then give him the death penalty of course). Actually, It should be that way with all these nutjobs. Like that guy who microwaved his baby. I'll bet you anything he wouldn't have don it if he knew his head would end up in a microwave.
        • lemur, on 06/07/2008, -1/+3It depends on what you mean by punishment "fitting" the crime. Personally, I feel that revenge is a pointless method at best. The point of the justice system is simply to provide a solution to a problem. The nature of the problems that justice systems deal with are things that are harmful to society.

          Ending the life of the criminal in cases such as these heinous crimes is really the most effective way to solve the problem. As far as we know, death is an irreversible process, so it's the only guarantee of knowing that society was protected from this person. Life in prison sounds like it might do the trick, but don't forget that people can get out of prison (by whatever means), and it harms society to support them for life (eg provide them with food, clothing, etc).
        • btschul, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1It's not revenge so much as the deterrent value of the knowledge that whatever you do to the person will eventually happen to you. but I see your point. also, a system like this would be extremely impractical. Just thinking out loud.
        • allisonaxe, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1yes, leaving him to rot in a cell is a lot worse than a quick death, but were this to happen to me, i'd not care about revenge.... I'd simply want scum like this man to be taken out of the world so that he couldn't harm anyone else ever again.

          (that's not to mention the financial burden that housing and feeding the scum of the earth would cost.)
        • sexualwasabi, on 06/07/2008, -1/+3agreed, kill, execute these *****
        • nakani, on 06/07/2008, -3/+4News flash: it takes more money to execute someone than to put them in jail for life! Besides, one false conviction on death row is enough to scrap the whole idea. How'd you like to be the guy that is executed then found to be innocent 5 years later from DNA evidence?
        • aceshigh821, on 06/07/2008, -1/+0well, at least a life sentence.
        • netant, on 06/07/2008, -4/+1@nanaki

          Your question is irrelevant, not rhetorical. These diggers are not much different than the rapist. They're perfectly willing to execute innocent people in order to satisfy their feeling of security and "justice".
    • Dominicc2003, on 06/06/2008, -4/+76I'm so glad that she didn't die.
      Strangely, I suppose attempting suicide turned out the right thing to do - it stopped her from getting her eyes gouged out (I assume) and she kept her life.
      Hopefully that guy will go to a tough prison and get repeatedly raped FOR LIFE :D

      I'm not the kindof guy who would normally say that, but this guy is just sick.
      • tony23, on 06/06/2008, -5/+45He'll probably be out in 4 years. After all, we need more room in prison for all the evil drug dealers.
        • TimmyGUNZ, on 06/07/2008, -0/+29...and file sharers.
        • btschul, on 06/07/2008, -0/+17Don't forget all the evil drug USERS. We can't have them sitting in their own homes harming themselves.
        • SierraAlpha, on 06/07/2008, -8/+4CAN WE NOT BRING THAT INTO THIS THREAD!? This is not the ***** time. I know how you love to protect your precious weed and filesharing but do you honestly think this is the time after reading what happened to this woman? ***** you.
        • netant, on 06/07/2008, -2/+4@SierraAlpha

          So, we should instead be satisfied to let violent criminals loose in a couple of years because your sensibilities makes it impossible to point out reality? After all, its the stupid sentencing of drug users and filesharers that take up prison space that should be mandated to violent criminals instead.
      • SonicAD, on 06/07/2008, -0/+9I think they should chop off his junk and make him eat it.
        • manasotagirl, on 06/07/2008, -0/+0as sick as this guy/story is... that made me laugh. at the same time though... the punishment would fit the crime
      • goldfishey, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1Im not sure that she is though. The kind of hell she must be living in now, I wonder if she wishes she had died.
        I hope that somehow she manages to escape the fear.
    • MuskokasFinest, on 06/06/2008, -5/+44These are definitely times when I wish there was a hell for people like this...
      • dlite922, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1Hell? Let's make one. I can't wait.

        tons of thermite, deep ditch, throw people like this in.

        My only regret is that he'll die quickly.

        I"m gonna go throw up...I'm a visual person and saw everything basically in excruciating detail.

    • subliminalurge, on 06/06/2008, -8/+45It's cases like this that make me believe we need to hang on to the death penalty.
      • wphj, on 06/06/2008, -7/+22I'm usually very sure about my stance on issues, and I consider myself to be against the death penalty. However, stories like this make that idea hard to stick to.

        The only thing I can think is that, how are we better than them if we kill?
        • Qumahlin, on 06/06/2008, -9/+32"how are we better than them if we kill?"

          How are we better by letting them live? How are we better by dedicating resources to these people who don't care about their life or anothers? How are we better by locking them away in a prison where they will be treated humanely for the rest of thier lives and never truly pay for the trauma they inflicted on the families they affected.

          Say what you want, there is no argument on earth that would make me think we should outlaw the death penalty. Even in higher animal societies traitors to the group are disconnected from the rest and typically chased off and killed if they return. Some wolf packs actually kill members who head out on thier own simply because it is detrimental to the group.

          As far as I am concerned nature and common sense dictate that people willing to commit these atrocities for no reason are trash and should be dealth with as trash. Their rights should be stripped away and they should be massacred in the public forum to openly discourage the behavior like they do in some 3rd world countries.

          There is no "1st world" solution to handling those who have nothing to lose. The man was a violent homeless criminal with likely little to no fear of being caught and probable mental damage". No amount of rehabilitation will ever make this individual fit for society.

          The real question is why do we waste electricity and gas when we can simply slit their throats or put a bullet through their temple. If they don't die right away...let them bleed out. Inhumane torture/murder should immediately revoke all your rights as a citizen, you are no longer entitled to fair treatment and your punishment should be intentionally cruel and unusual.
        • Slackdragon, on 06/06/2008, -5/+25By killing him, you get rid of him and the threat of him ever hurting another person.

          He's not a tax burden by feeding and sheltering him from the elements. You don't have to pay anyone to guard him if he's dead.

          And you're better than him by killing him because he'll be dead and non-existent anymore. Instead of keeping him alive in a tiny cell with the cruel notion that you're torturing him for the rest of his miserable life.

          Killing a monster like this IS the moral high ground.
        • SpudgeBoy, on 06/06/2008, -0/+11We are better off without a piece of scum like this around.

          But, we won't have to worry about the death penalty here. He will die very quickly in prison.
        • Yez70, on 06/06/2008, -7/+11Actually it costs the taxpayers MORE to kill them than it does to leave them in prison for life. The cost of mandatory appeals alone far exceeds incarceration costs. Besides, death penalty cases are segregated in solitary cells, so there is no chance for prison justice.

          Imagine how the other inmates are going to treat a prisoner after they find out what he did to get there - he'll get what he deserves and will probably either kill himself or be killed - for free.
        • kirralin23, on 06/06/2008, -10/+4He won't get what he deserves in prison. He will be housed in the sex offender section. However, I don't believe in the death penalty because it can't be administered fairly. When you make a mistake and kill an innocent person there is absolutely no way to return their life or make amends. I also think it damages the humanity of the individual who carries out the sentence.
        • B1663r, on 06/06/2008, -2/+6Yez70,

          And sometimes you get what you pay for. I'd say in cases like this the extra cost of the death penalty is more than worth it.
        • Radan, on 06/06/2008, -2/+9Seriously, death penalty is too kind for "people" like this. ***** like this don't deserve to get a five star dinner and then get painlessly put to rest.

          He should get put in a freaking ice cold isolation cell for the rest of his miserable life. One should make sure that the ***** stays alive for a long time too, death should be the ultimate reward for good behaviour.

          Suffer, is what this guy should do. Suffer more than anything imaginable, for creatures like this doesn't deserve to die.
        • skodai, on 06/06/2008, -0/+9Just let her father carry out the sentence. It would do more damage to my humanity to allow the thing that did this to one of my daughters to live.
      • HMMcKamikaze, on 06/06/2008, -5/+12But death ends all suffering. Staying alive is worse, especially when for the rest of his life he would be in a tiny cell.
        • dabomb691, on 06/06/2008, -0/+11I disagree. Jail is too nice for such a person. This guy spent 8 years in jail already and he was not affected. Putting him in life would do as much 'damage' onto his psyche as letting him off to the streets. This guy deserves the death penalty
        • SpudgeBoy, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7People learn how to "live" in prison. After a couple of years, he is just eating three squares and has a roof over his head forever and he still won't give a *****.

          He will get what is coming to him when he gets to his little cell. Prisoners don't look kindly on those that commit crimes against women and children.
        • BeardDob, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2"He will get what is coming to him when he gets to his little cell. Prisoners don't look kindly on those that commit crimes against women and children."

          Children from what I understand, child molesters etc. do not fare well in prison. I do not think there is any stigma about Rape/torture of women. The number of assaults against felons who are convicted of raping "adult" females seems to be largely the same as the general populace.
        • ppineda, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2If staying alive in jail is worse than the death penalty, then why does everyone on death row fight and appeal for just one more day of life? The sad fact is that this "man" will never experience 1/100000 of the amount of pain that this lady lived through.
        • ArcticRain, on 06/07/2008, -1/+3Because thats all they can do...
      • ramunenke, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3the sad thing about it is that he will not get the death penalty. Maybe if the case is strong enough, he will get 25 years.Hopefully that and his world after that will be enough punishment for him, because that's just about all the penal system can give him
      • GoodDamon, on 06/06/2008, -2/+7No, death is too good for him. I want him to live a very long, very miserable life. I want people who commit acts like this to break longevity records... and suffer every single moment of it.

        Normally, I'm very much in favor of rehabilitation vs. punishment; I think the American prison system needs serious reform. But for cases like this evil sonofabitch, rehabilitation isn't a possibility. I read the whole damn article, and he was apparently mentally competent while he did this. So he chose, while sane, to torture someone to the point of craving death.

        A humane lethal-injection death is way, way too good for him.
        • ppineda, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6Yeah, death is too good for him. So let's give him three meals a day, tv time, yard time, a bed to sleep in, medical care, excersize, and the ability to contact his love ones.

          HELLO - A long life will not make him suffer if he doesn't have a conscience. And judging by the things he did, he'd be sleeping like a baby and never give it another thought.
        • Karmavs, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2"So he chose, while sane, to torture someone to the point of craving death."

          It sounds like you're suggesting we do the same thing.
        • zeabu, on 06/08/2008, -0/+1Guantanamo Bay
      • jcm267, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6It's times like this that make me want them to put and asterisk next to "cruel and unusual punishment". I'd like to let rape victims and children who never met their mothers because of people like this to go medieval on this guy.
      • elnerdo, on 06/06/2008, -8/+4Why do you assume that he did it? Why couldn't he have just been falsely accused? How do you know that the girl's not lying?

        How are you any more intelligent than lynch mobs, or the people in the Salem witch trials?
        • humanerror, on 06/07/2008, -0/+9Yeah you're right.

          She probably downed that bottle of pills herself, then glued her own mouth shut, poured boiling water on herself, doused her own face in bleach, sliced up her own eyelids, and set her own apartment on fire.
        • elnerdo, on 06/07/2008, -6/+3Ugh, She was obviously raped and tortured, but how do you know that it was THAT MAN?
        • sk11, on 06/07/2008, -0/+7The DNA evidence, witness testimony, together with his lawyer considering an insanity plea are quite compelling.
        • fragomatik, on 06/07/2008, -0/+3Yeah, ok we get your point "innocent until PROVEN guilty" and all that, for sure...but I think most posters are venting their anger & frustration at the thought of a GUILTY perpetrator. Did you read the article? The article mentioned prosecution assertions that eye-witness & DNA evidence will be presented at trial.

          As for your "devil's advocate" question: "how do you know that the girl's not lying?", ummm, that's a pretty big call on your part, don't you think?

          Yes, there are those that falsely accuse, but there are usually indicative factors associated with those sorts of cases, for example the victim knows the accused, etc.

          This was a brutal and senseless crime, and your ill-stated and ill-considered comments lack sensitivity. Calling angry posters unintelligent and comparing them to the Salem witch trial "lynch-mobs" is a bit troll-ish to say the least.

          ...just my 2c worth....peace!
        • humanerror, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2> Ugh, She was obviously raped and tortured, but how do you know that it was THAT MAN?

          What a weird thing to say. None of us knows the defendant. It's not a personal attack on him. The reactions are to the crime, and to the person who perpetrated it.

          Someone did it, and that person is a monster. If it turns out the monster is someone other than the defendant in this case, then it's the other guy whose blood everyone here is calling for.

          Meanwhile the victim herself seems to be confirming that the defendant in this case is in fact the man who raped and tortured her. So what are you defending?
        • NecroSexy, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1READ THE ***** ARTICLE
    • bobangitanov2, on 06/06/2008, -35/+3Idiot, the bastard who did this is human like you. You should be blaiming the whole of society including me and yourself for not caring about what's happening to the people around us and then wanting to punish them for ruining innocent lives.
      • ramunenke, on 06/06/2008, -0/+13You dumbass, just because he is anotomically human does not give him a by. Neither does the homelessness. How exactly do you expect us to care about this man who has tried his hand at murder several times and wanted to ramp it up as high as possible this time. He needs to be punished you fool. What else do you do with someone who has done something so dastardly and degrading but to punish him and keep him far away from the general populace of possible victims? ***** off with your attempt at social commentary. This is one person who does not deserve your vain attempt at sympathy.
      • fivefootfour, on 06/06/2008, -1/+12I agree he needs to be put to death, but not as punishment. There's no punishment on earth that will take away what happened to this woman. But for the sake of preventing him from hurting another human being (in jail or out) he should be put down like an animal. There'd be no discussion if a rottweiller attacked this woman, why should he be kept alive just because of his species?
      • Dibou, on 06/06/2008, -0/+9This guy gave up his humanity card long ago.
    • KMartSheriff, on 06/06/2008, -18/+39I know Diggers usually hate us Christian types, but my prayers go out to this poor girl.

      My prayers of eternal rape and suffering go the ***** that did it to her.
      • alexforcefive, on 06/06/2008, -8/+63How very christian of you
        • TedTschopp, on 06/06/2008, -8/+13I think he is just asking for justice. Go read some of the Psalms in the bible. It can be appropriate to pray for the justice, destruction, punishment, and eternal damnation of evil.
        • KMartSheriff, on 06/06/2008, -11/+2You're right. We should just him go. What was I think. Silly me.
        • Risingashes, on 06/07/2008, -0/+6There is a difference between justice and revenge.

          In fact that distinction is one of the supposed core beliefs of Christianity- that was the above's point.
        • sk11, on 06/07/2008, -0/+5Are you talking about "bible justice?" Doesn't that stipulate that if the poor woman had successfully ended her torture, she herself would spend eternity being tortured further in hell?
        • fac3less, on 06/07/2008, -4/+2God is fair and just. I certainly won't speak on his behalf but I doubt this woman would spend eternity in hell.
        • HonestAbe, on 06/07/2008, -0/+6If we were following Old Testament justice, the man would have to pay a fine to the girl's father, and then the girl would become the man's wife.
        • alexforcefive, on 06/07/2008, -1/+3Yeah, thank goodness Jesus came along and replaced all the old testament vengeance crap with peace, love and forgiveness. Right, KMartSheriff?
      • uhhNo, on 06/06/2008, -25/+4Your prayers do not work here, or anywhere for that matter.

        Also, I wouldn't wish "eternal" rape and suffering to the dude who did it to her, but he should get the same treatment that he gave to her back for a longer amount of time (1.5 to 2 times the amount of time).
        • TedTschopp, on 06/06/2008, -2/+5He prays, you say "should" but you both demand justice. The only difference is a matter of intensity. You 1.5 - 2 times the duration of time, while the other thinks the girl was damaged to such an extent that justice demands on going retribution.

          Seems like there is very little that seperates you regarding your sense of justice.
        • manasotagirl, on 06/07/2008, -0/+01.5 - 2 times? where the heck does your math and "logic" come from? this girl is going to be physically and mentally scarred until the day she dies. The guy who did it to he is probably a sociopath and has no feeling of pain and remorse for what he has done so '1.5 - 2' times more then she got is a breeze for this guy.
        • uhhNo, on 06/08/2008, -0/+1The punishment should, at a minimum, cause the same damage to him as he did to her, but to further discourage this behavior it should be more. That's where my 1.5 to 2 times the damage figure comes from.
      • 5oma, on 06/06/2008, -19/+6Read your last sentence over and over again. Where does the hate stop? Not with you anyway.

        As a non-"Christian" (how can you even call yourself that?), I hope this man is removed from society and helped. In whatever ways we can, within reason. He is sick. Lets help him to realise what an awful thing he has done.

        Or lets pray a giant ***** is rammed up his ass for eternity and God himself ***** down his throat. And then he has to feltch himself. Jesus Christ you are a piece of *****.
        • TedTschopp, on 06/06/2008, -3/+3Is it good to hate evil?
        • PabloMac, on 06/06/2008, -1/+5Yes, let's help him. He's sick, he's ill, and in need of a cure. And let's put the government in charge of his rehabilitation.

          And if the victim gets better, that's ok, too.

          Oh, wait...
        • 5oma, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1It is good not to continue being evil.
        • trntman, on 06/06/2008, -1/+4"Let's help him to realize what an awful thing he has done"

          So you are saying you think he should be taken and put in a room and told that what he did was bad and that he shouldn't do it again? Do you know what that would do?

          Nothing. Nothing will stop him from thinking the way he does. Nothing will correct his view of life and make him conform to our society's rules. His brain will never change and the only thing that will stop him is to put him in jail for life or the death penalty. I personally think people who have done crimes like Mr. Williams do not deserve to be taught how to live "normally" or even live for that matter. He's a bum.. that's all
        • 5oma, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1Maybe I would think you a bum?

          Even very elderly (or sick / disturbed) people can create new thoughts and learn new (mental) skills. I just think that wishing an equally bad fate on the man is not good. And I reacted strongly to it obviously.
        • bluto36, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2he can't ever be help. he is broken, he can not ever be fixed. the only humane thing to do is put him down.
        • TedTschopp, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1"It is good not to continue being evil."

          I agree. The problem is if you do something evil, you become evil. Can you then go back and every become good again? Sure you can do good, but can you be good again?
      • BabyWookie, on 06/06/2008, -10/+14Unfortunately, your prayers are not going to do her even a little bit of good.
        • KMartSheriff, on 06/06/2008, -4/+1I never said rely on prayers solely.
        • Risingashes, on 06/07/2008, -0/+8How about just wishing her and her family well then? I'm sure you personal emotion would be more widely accepted than forcing it through a hypothetical 3rd party proxy.
      • gryphon50, on 06/06/2008, -1/+11I never had a problem with Christians. Unfortunately the loudest and most bible-thumping ones are the ones who are not very Christian at all.
      • Waterrat, on 06/07/2008, -6/+8What good does praying for her do?
        If your god gave a f n f about the human race,he would not let this sort of ***** happen.
      • HonestAbe, on 06/07/2008, -4/+4Events like this are one of the reasons we aren't "Christian types". What kind of God would create a world like this?

        "But he didn't create suffering! It came about as a result of our sin!"

        So is he omnipotent or not? Make up your mind.
      • Technohamster, on 06/07/2008, -2/+1I don't hate you. But maybe you should be focusing on the love part if you plan on winning any popularity contests...
      • lbdinh, on 06/07/2008, -2/+2All he has to do is apologize for his sins and Jesus will let him into heaven.
    • humanerror, on 06/06/2008, -0/+10There's just no way to make sense of this.

      I completely understand the people who try to make a joke, or who say they want this guy to also be tortured, or who see this as a justification for the death penalty.

      What can a normal person do in the face of such inhumanity besides get angry, try to laugh it off, or else just cry and cry and cry?
      • Risingashes, on 06/07/2008, -0/+3So true.

        There is no answer here.

        It's tragic that this has happened to the girl, and tragic that such a monster was created from our society- the checks and balances clearly failed consistantly.
    • boobsbr, on 06/06/2008, -1/+7i hope he gets raped many times a day in prison.
    • kmiller2087, on 06/06/2008, -0/+18im not ashamed to say this story brought tears to my eyes. that poor girl will never be the same because some sick ***** had to get his jollies.
      • jcm267, on 06/06/2008, -1/+15They're never the same after regular rapes. This ***** is ***** unreal.
      • homanh, on 06/07/2008, -0/+3Its not just that she won't be the same psychologically. She had boiling water poured over her, she had her eye lids slit by a kitchen knife: she'll be severely physically scarred for life
    • lastmaster, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3Very sad, i couldn't even finish the article. Even this guy spending the rest of his life in prison getting ass raped
      doesn't seem like enough of a punishment.
    • Cenobite, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7Jeez. I seriously did not need to read this at 1AM just after a midnight snack. Nightmare-ville, here I come :(
    • Waterrat, on 06/07/2008, -2/+5 I'm an atheist and I sure wish there was a hell to put this sick piece of ***** into. What I wish they would do is let the woman beat him bloody,then exacute him
      This bag of infected pus does not deserve to live.
      One has to wonder how many other people this ***** face has tortured.
      • Twinsen343, on 06/07/2008, -6/+0I think you should shut the ***** up.
        • davidlick, on 06/07/2008, -0/+3He's only graphically saying what everyone else here is thinking. What's your problem?
      • NecroSexy, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1I'm not a Buddhist, but "enmity never brings an end to enmity."
    • diggingfornews, on 06/07/2008, -0/+13If only Dexter were real.
      • alphonse221, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1"Killing must serve a purpose. Otherwise, it's just plain murder."
    • Clouse, on 06/07/2008, -0/+8I would pay money for this guy to be killed.
    • synthoid, on 06/07/2008, -20/+1FAP FAP FAP

      Sorry, but this story makes me wanna fap
    • ScottyWZ, on 06/07/2008, -1/+3How in the hell can they call him "Mr. Williams?" My prayers go to the victim.
    • themastersb, on 06/07/2008, -11/+1This article made me hard. Is that wrong?
    • moviscop, on 06/07/2008, -1/+2rot in hell? i feel like this display is questioning my own beliefs in such places.
    • Puffles, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2I think you mean "inhumanity."
    • kagebutsu, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1That's by far the sickest most disturbing thing i've ever seen on the internet, I can't wait for the day when that bastard is rotting in hell.
  • wizzroom, on 06/06/2008, -31/+262The only justice is to have these same tortures inflicted on him...for the rest of his miserable life.
    • itcoll, on 06/06/2008, -29/+6u r right !
    • Xcel, on 06/06/2008, -5/+9Just like Hammurabi's Code. An eye for an eye.
    • d03boy, on 06/06/2008, -10/+21an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind
      just lock him up and replace a marijuana smoker with him
      • opticwind, on 06/06/2008, -13/+6Tell that to the family, I bet they'll find comfort in it.
        • Pritchard, on 06/06/2008, -5/+8I'm going to bury this comment as irrelevant, and an attempt to brush off a valid point through this irrelevance.

          Thankfully, angry families come from both ends, and eventually we realized that how someone feels about a situation should not decide the law. Rather, evaluate the crime in a more sensible manner - Cause, Responsibility, Motive. Weigh the Prosecution in a sensible manner as well - Mainly looking at the effect of any given action that could be taken.

          Unfortunately, I don't believe either the victim or defendant can be helped much now. Probably best to keep the man out of society.
        • jnordb, on 06/06/2008, -3/+2"Probably best to keep the man out of society."???? Really???? What gave you that idea?
    • wolferz, on 06/06/2008, -2/+29There can never be justice for something like this... no matter what is done to him, no matter how horrible, nothing can make up for such a horrible act...
    • uriman, on 06/06/2008, -5/+12an eye for an eye mentality only perpetuates the crime. he needed to isolated from society for a long time.
      • Monk22, on 06/06/2008, -3/+10no we just need to purge him from the gene pool and move on with society
        • heroesdietrying, on 06/06/2008, -0/+12Not "a long time" he needs to be be removed from society PERMANENTLY. Whether by life-long incarceration or execution.
      • CrazedLeper, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3Forever is a long time. How 'bout forever?
      • maanwi, on 06/07/2008, -1/+4People who commit crimes of this nature and magnitude aren't candidates for rehabilitation. Dispassionate disposal, not isolation, is the only reasonable course of action.
    • CrazedLeper, on 06/06/2008, -14/+6DON'T DIGG ME DOWN BECAUSE I'M DEFENDING THE GUY, BECAUSE I'M NOT! I agree that whoever could do something like that has it coming but, having been wrongly accused more than once, myself, (don't over-do that tan), I have limited confidence in the ability of police to "get their man". I was, perhaps, lucky to have a judge who believed, as she stated, that she "takes the testimony of a complainant with a grain of salt".

      I shudder to think how many people in prison are *truly* innocent while the actual perp is free to repeat.
      • heroesdietrying, on 06/06/2008, -0/+14they have DNA evidence
        • DraxusD, on 06/06/2008, -3/+4I think he means this method of punishment can't just be applied to everyone.... and I agree with him.
        • ppineda, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4DNA evidence + eye witness = Death Penalty

          It's that easy. If DNA can free people it should convict people.
    • 5oma, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4No that is not justice only the continuance of evil. It only requires that another individual does to him what he did to her.
    • Pritchard, on 06/06/2008, -4/+7That's terrible. How is that Justice? That's senseless payback. The guy probably can't be helped by anyone now. If he could, then that'd be great, but I don't think he can. I'd label him and his record as a menace to society. Lock him up for life, and pray to God that one day people like him can integrate with society.
      • ppineda, on 06/06/2008, -1/+5I can pray to God that people will stop making excuses for people's action and stop trying to put these extreme cases in with other cases that should get leniency. Normal people discount anti-death penalty advocates when they defend people like this the same way they defend others. Somehow I think giving this guy food and taking care of him for the rest of his life is not Justice, and is much better than the victim will get. She'll be in her own prision, except her's will be worse.
      • Waterrat, on 06/07/2008, -1/+4 Pray to god?
        Why?
        What good has praying to an imaginary god ever done to stop psychopathic men from sexually and physicallytorturing women and children?
      • HonestAbe, on 06/07/2008, -0/+5God's not going to touch this one with a ten foot pole. He never does.
    • falkonv7l, on 06/06/2008, -2/+12A burn to the whole body is considered to be one of the most painful things a human can endure.
      So burn him completely and violently, let him just start to heal burn him again, add salt, and repeat. Continue the process for as long as possible.
    • u8eR, on 06/06/2008, -6/+7Using torture is not an acceptable form of punishment in any civilized nation. It would be unbecoming of our constitutional republic if we were to so degrade ourselves and sense of humanity that we felt it necessary to act brutally and cruelly against another man. Yes, we all agree what this person did was reprehensible and sick. But would be better people for doing the same things this man did? We cannot merely pay lip service to the Eight Amendment. It our duty as American citizens to uphold the Constitution and preserve the sanctity of this nation that was envisioned by the Founding Fathers. To suggest we torture that man is completely counter this ideal.
    • elliott9, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6ill volunteer to help
    • mummbleswers, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Prison is not going to be a cake walk for this guy. Ever seen Goodfella's where they all go to prison... Now picture the absolute opposite, but with big, huge NY black men... and guards that hate you... and the food... ughhh.
    • BlackJackJester, on 06/07/2008, -0/+3This is one case where I truly believe the phrase "Death is too good of an end for him" applies. I wouldn't be surprised if the girl slipped in a knife and killed him in the courtroom.
    • pr0t0, on 06/07/2008, -1/+1The defendants name is: Mr. Soon To Be Living Out The Rest of His Short-Ass Life In Agonizing Pain, Rapist.
    • minsley1021, on 06/07/2008, -0/+0That's what prison's for. They tend to pair up the worst sex offenders with bigger meaner sex offenders.
    • mcomfort, on 06/07/2008, -1/+1If it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt that he did all the things he's been accused of doing, then he has clearly forfeited his right to live and has demonstrated that he is a menace to society (putting it lightly.) He should be removed and put down like the dangerous animal he apparently is, but to torture him would be just as stupid and senseless as it would be to keep him alive and well-fed him for the next several decades.
  • skored, on 06/06/2008, -24/+343"If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison."

    the fact that this monster will get to live (while this girl will be haunted by this day for the rest of her life) is such a shame...
    • atdigg, on 06/06/2008, -5/+66well, if this is a consolation he might get raped there too...
      • dvdcpu, on 06/06/2008, -2/+13Might?
      • Tomchei, on 06/06/2008, -0/+12He's been in prison twice before for murder.
        First time as an eight year old.

        This is the kind of guy society doesn't want poking around.
        Enough with the time limits per crime. You get out when you're really rehabilitated.
        • mummbleswers, on 06/06/2008, -0/+9That sounds nice but prison ***** people up so bad most of them would never get out.
        • Waterrat, on 06/07/2008, -0/+7 This one should have been locked up and kept locked up for his whole retched life.
        • ShellShock11, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2This is where the justice system ***** fails. In prison as an eight year old for murder and then released. The simple solution for this low-life ***** is to pump 50 armor piercing rounds into his balls. We don't need these people alive, and this ***** makes me sick.
      • megamod, on 06/07/2008, -6/+1What, what what? in the butt... =)
      • homanh, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2"he might get raped there too..."

        If you think the only thing that happened in this ordeal was just rape I suggest you go and read the article
    • leerayIG88, on 06/06/2008, -1/+19raped by a man who might carry some sort of a disease
    • TotalDouche, on 06/06/2008, -5/+59Well, you have no idea what they do to guys like this in prison. It's much, much worse. The prison guards feel the same way you do, and have no problem looking the other way while this ***** gets double-teamed nonstop by the Crips.
      • KMartSheriff, on 06/06/2008, -1/+32Good.
      • Qumahlin, on 06/06/2008, -0/+25As much as I'd love to believe you, One of my closest friends was a guard at a high security prison in the south. He let me know that the tales of prison rape and beatings are greatly greatly exaggerated and that only a few prisons have a real reputation for such things.

        He told me stories about the daily goings on all the time and from what I remember most of the murderers pretty much spent 90% of their time in their cells and the rest of the time they were under constant supervision if they were in a room with any other inmates for any reason.

        You fail to realize that you be beaten you actually need to see another prisoner to beat you. Outside of lunch prisoner mingling is at a minimum at most higher security prisons that would house this type of criminal. Some even have showers right in the cell or showers on wheels that are brought to each cell...

        So yeah...don't believe movies.
        • BabyWookie, on 06/06/2008, -8/+3You would love to believer that people get raped and abused in prison? Wow. That's pretty sick. You know, any of us can be convicted of a crime that we did not do.
        • kirralin23, on 06/06/2008, -3/+8My husband worked as a corrections officer. The sex offenders were totally isolated from the other criminals at that prison. Sex offenders used to pay a price in prison for the crimes they committed outside of prison, but not anymore.
        • Scira, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6Its a shame they probably do it to those that are less deserving aswell.
        • eir574, on 06/07/2008, -4/+12"Sex offenders used to pay a price in prison for the crimes they committed outside of prison, but not anymore."

          Our justice system is not based on the 'eye for an eye' philosophy. Hoping that someone will be tortured, raped, or killed in prison is wrong, no matter how terrible that person's crimes are. Let's not stoop down to this criminal's level. Life imprisonment in a small cell with little to occupy my time and little control over my life might drive me insane. It's not a comfortable existence. It still may not feel sufficient to exact our revenge on this person as a society, but punishment is not the same thing as revenge, and nor should it be. I have no sympathy for this man and wouldn't miss him if he died (assuming he's the guilty party), but we diminish ourselves when we stoop to the level of the worst among us and we elevate ourselves when we resist that temptation in favor of treating every human being with some minimal level of decency no matter how despicable said human being might be.
        • nova77, on 06/07/2008, -1/+4eir574: finally a word of reason.
        • DirtyCash, on 06/07/2008, -1/+2You said what I was thinking ... and put it way better than I would have.
      • Hoogs, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3I always wonder how you people know this information.
      • Waterrat, on 06/07/2008, -1/+4 No they won't.
        He will be isolated.
        I have a friend who was a prizon guard and no,they don't let criminals rape each other.
    • danclaw, on 06/06/2008, -4/+23This is one case in which I'm unequivocally in favor of the death penalty, if he is found guilty.
      • KMartSheriff, on 06/06/2008, -3/+4WAY too good for him. And ***** you "two wrongs don't make a right" types (not saying you, danclaw, are one of those types, just saying in general).
        • popfrogs, on 06/06/2008, -0/+8He said death penalty, he didn't say what kind. I say export him to Guantanamo and get medieval on him for 72 hours.
        • jnordb, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2Death administered by waterboarding???? it could work
      • Mehtuus, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2According to the article DNA proves that he is the one linked to the crime, not to mention multiple people ID'ing him as well.

        A humane lethal injection *is* too good for this bastard. Proper justice is balanced for the crime and covers the full spectrum of possible deterrents. For a crime like this he needs to die, painfully.
    • Doitdifferently, on 06/06/2008, -1/+44The death penalty is applied in cases where someone's life has been taken. Ever since being raped at 9 I've always felt that the legal understanding of life should be changed to the complete destruction on the life you had either through murder or worse, high emphasis on the malice involved. You don't ever get your life back, it is ripped apart and gone, but there is always hope that you can find a new healthy one. I understand that it is the chance for a new life that separates murder from other heinous but I still can't help but feel that such vicious crimes deserve the severest we can do and be permanently be removed from the face of the earth . Strangely enough I don't feel the person that hurt me deserves that kind of punishment. *shrugs* It's complex really.

      I'm not a Christian or anything but I will still pray for her and hope she can receive the compassion and the near endless amount of patience she'll need to heal.
      • twisterrust, on 06/06/2008, -0/+13I am sorry to hear about you
        • Waterrat, on 06/07/2008, -0/+5 As am I. I've known people who have been raped.
          it's a horrific thing.
      • gryphon50, on 06/06/2008, -0/+19What I've never understood is how someone is not given the death penalty because the person they attempted to kill somehow managed to survive. They are given a lesser sentence just due to incompetence, not lack of will.
      • winampman2, on 06/07/2008, -0/+5I'm sure the NY state attorneys will do their best to ensure he will never be released back into society, and if possible, ensure that this creature of evil is removed from our world.
    • shadoturtl, on 06/06/2008, -2/+29just the thought of knowing every day I go to work a small portion of my earnings will go towards providing a roof over this guys head, meals, and television makes me sick. Lets not kid ourselves, part of what makes me the most disgusted is knowing that if convicted, this guy's quality of life will probably improve after he goes to prison.

      • Qumahlin, on 06/06/2008, -0/+14hell it's already improved, he is no longer homeless.
        • Waterrat, on 06/07/2008, -0/+7 Yup,he gets three hots and a cot and free medical care.
          I bet his victim won't get free medical care.
    • Sham1969, on 06/06/2008, -1/+9I agree that this is a death penalty case. And it is not only applied "in cases where someone's life has been taken" It is sometimes applied in kidnapping cases, even when the victim survives. That is essentially what we have here.
      • yuanzhoulu, on 06/06/2008, -4/+4i agree he deserves the death penalty, but one better be damn sure you have the right guy first.
      • netant, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2Every person exonerated for murder by DNA evidence was convicted by people "damn" sure they had the right guy. We have yet to see prosecutors or police officers incarcerated for putting those people in prison OR EXECUTING them.
    • 5oma, on 06/06/2008, -11/+1So we kill him? Or you kill him? Or some random person kills him by pushing poison fluid into his body?

      And afterwards the rapists killer pronounces "I am better than this man for I killed with morality on my side". But he is a killer, and he killed, for good?

      The rapist is an awful man, the executioner not so great either.

      Er.. I mean cut his peepee off, or something.

      • weirdlookinguy, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3Shut the ***** up and go back to praying.
    • BradleyF81, on 06/06/2008, -2/+12Kill him. Simple as that. I don't want my tax money to go to paying this guy's room and board for the rest of his life. He doesn't deserve it. He should be thrown naked into a pit of hungry dogs that will eat him alive. Even that doesn't seem severe enough. Hopefully someone will shoot him in the face as he leaves the court room on his way to the prison.

      I have nothing but compassion and heartache for the girl this happened to. I hope that after some time she'll be able to find peace and re-begin her life. The thought of this happening to my fiance makes my stomach twist. I would kill this guy with my bare hands if I were that girl's father.
      • 5oma, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3It is more expensive to kill him in America. Or so I have heard. Maybe you could research it a report back?
        • kingvik, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1With appeals the criminal usually spends many, many years in prison; sometimes they even die naturally before they are executed.
        • willpall, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1I would gladly pay 10 times the cost of lifetime imprisonment for a speedy extermination of this monster. When it comes to issues like this, money is no object.

          Others above have said that punishment is about justice, not revenge. I disagree. I don't get the blanket characterization of 'revenge' as a negative thing. Frankly, revenge would be a huge morale-booster in this case.

          I sincerely hope that this piece of ***** suffers great agony for what he's done. I am not ashamed of that sentiment.
      • winampman2, on 06/07/2008, -0/+3Yeah, it already hurts to think about her, but then I think about her family and friends. Everyone she knows must be weeping in despair. I can't even imagine her parent's expressions when they found out.

        @BradleyF81:
        "The thought of this happening to my fiance makes my stomach twist. I would kill this guy with my bare hands if I were that girl's father."

        I'm a pretty passive guy, and I can't imagine myself doing anything violent, but then I read that line, and I realized... yeah, if that happened to my fiance... I would probably look at him for a few seconds when he walks into the courtroom. Then I'd lose my mind.
    • Rikkochet, on 06/06/2008, -2/+5The punishment system of justice is broken. We're all emotional about cases like this, but inflicting pain on him won't help anything. If he wasn't homeless, I'd say forfeit all of his possessions to the victim and just kill him. Quickly and without ceremony, thus minimizing any more money and time being wasted on garbage like this.
      It's not an emotionally satisfying but in the long run it's better to just quickly and quietly remove garbage like this from society so the silent majority can keep building great things.
      • willpall, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1I don't think anybody's suggesting that inflicting pain on him would help anything, per se. But like you said, it would be emotionally satisfying. We'll still dispose of him quickly, as long as you consider 19 hours 'quick'.
    • Serpentine1618, on 06/07/2008, -0/+3I don't understand why some people perceive death as the ultimate punishment......I personally think death too good for this guy. Actual life in prison is FAARR more torturous than death.

      Can you imagine living in general population prison with violent murdering criminals for the rest of your life? The threat of death is much more painful than death itself.

      • ShellShock11, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1If I could see a live feed of this loser suffering in prison all day then life would be the best solution. But if I can't see him suffering then it's just my tax dollars feeding this douche-bag. Why keep him in prison when we could easily drop him off a building or do something else far more fast and effective and that doesn't cost any money.
    • Renostyle, on 06/07/2008, -0/+3The only thing worse in prison is if you're a pedo.

      http://youtube.com/watch?v=nTYLdU3QxwU

      Rapists are torn apart by real men
    • DarkReign16, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1Killing them would be like knocking them unconscious forever. It's not much of a punishment. I'd much rather they rot in a cell, and experience their suffering. And maybe even get raped themselves....
      • Mehtuus, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1And how about you pay my taxes that go to supporting this guy for the rest of his life, hmm? From the article it would seem that prison would be a step up for him. This just touches the tip of the iceberg, but where is the *true justice* in that? If he gets life, then he has "three squares and a roof" courtesy of the tax payers. And with good behavior, what are the chances that he would get perks (exercise room, library, tv, internet, etc., and god forbid a parole...)? All the while this womans life has been destroyed! It is now a living hell...

        After reading the article (I am wondering what else had occurred that the article does not even mention) there is no question that this person needs to be removed from mankind.
    • Stavrosian, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2Doesn't take much more than revulsion to turn you into a killer, then. It's a sickening thing that he's done, and he is a disgusting human being, but if you believe that any action he could take gives you the right to kill him as punishment then you obviously have some darkness in your own heart.

      It's the 21st Century - leave vengeance in the past where it belongs.
    • BoltzmannBrain, on 06/07/2008, -0/+0"could"

      ?!!!
  • itcoll, on 06/06/2008, -35/+68i wanna cut the rapers pe*is and te**is .
    • leerayIG88, on 06/06/2008, -2/+85**** *** ************, ***, *******!
      • zombird, on 06/06/2008, -2/+59I'd like to buy a vowel.
      • kmiller2087, on 06/06/2008, -1/+14i love digg.
      • rentmitchum, on 06/07/2008, -0/+4I'll take a Q... another Q... the batman symbol.. an ampersand.. and an X.
    • DeathMarcher, on 06/06/2008, -0/+177I think he deserves much worse than having his tetris cut.
    • chiefbandit2200, on 06/06/2008, -0/+69There's no need to censor penis and testis.
    • Kajarago, on 06/06/2008, -1/+15testEs? At least, i assume he has two.
    • spoogieking012, on 06/06/2008, -0/+21i thought it was tennis myself
    • yuanzhoulu, on 06/06/2008, -0/+9don't cut it, slowly fry it while he's alive
    • jcm267, on 06/06/2008, -1/+8I was going to say "and make the guy eat them" but I'm sure he'd like that.
      • itcoll, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2hee hee thats cool ......... i ll take video and put that in youtube and metacafe .......
    • cheekdog, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2he should be tied up, given scissors, and told to cut his own dick off.
  • pyroguy56011, on 06/06/2008, -3/+263What the *****? The only form of comfort I take from this article is that even his lawyer clearly has no clue how in the world he's going to protect his client.
    • reed311, on 06/06/2008, -5/+88I understand the anger, but the man has a right to a defense even if he is a piece of crap. As lawyers, sometimes we have to defend the scum of the earth; but we do it out of principal that everyone has a right to have their day in court not because we condone their actions.
      • lordtyros, on 06/06/2008, -3/+33*principle
        • AdamFromMyspace, on 06/06/2008, -2/+14Aren't lawyers supposed to be good at using their native language? :P
        • Mookeh, on 06/06/2008, -0/+24Am I a bad person for laughing at the obvious implications of a lawyer misspelling 'principle'?
        • boobsbr, on 06/06/2008, -7/+2oh the spelling nazis... =)
        • alphonse221, on 06/07/2008, -0/+0"You're... a ... crook, Captain Hook. Judge, won’t you throw the book at the pirate... "
      • gandhisan, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6I just hope that by defending the scum of the earth that we the people of the world can understand that its merely principal that binds the lawyer to this so called scum and nothing else.
      • Disregard, on 06/08/2008, -0/+1Yes every lawyer works entirely off of principals.
    • Crosshare, on 06/06/2008, -0/+30I don't think he was saying the guy shouldn't be entitled to defense, just that the defendant doesn't have a case.
    • Hoogs, on 06/06/2008, -0/+11I don't think I could ever be a lawyer if it meant standing up for people like this.
      • starmanfalls, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3Be the prosecutor, and send him to hell.
    • BradleyF81, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6They have multiple witnesses picking him out of a line-up, DNA evidence, and the victim to testify. He was previously proven to be mentally competent. What defense could you possibly come up with for this guy? I couldn't be a defense lawyer. Sure I could defend white collar crimes but something like this... It just goes against everything I believe in to try to defend this person.
      • one1time, on 06/06/2008, -0/+12This would be extremely difficult for anyone with a soul. However, from my associates that work as defense lawyers their opinion is that they are defending the law and not the accused. Their role is to make sure that due process is followed and that the justice system is not manipulated by the prosecutor.

        We often see on Digg how individuals in the justice system can abuse their power with false arrests and abuse of power. The people that they usually choose to exert this power is on marginalized populations due to their lack of knowledge of their rights. It's very easy to jump in and say "well obviously that drug user stole from the store", and yes they probably did. They also deserve not to be abused by those in power.

        With that said this guy should get his day in court. After that though... I hear water boarding is fine by the US govt. They should try that to start, than we'll leave it up to everyones imagination.
        • BRSQUIRRL, on 06/07/2008, -0/+0Cases with this much evidence against the defendant almost never see court...he will cop a plea.
      • starmanfalls, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2Just protect his rights and convince him it will be in his favor to just plead GUILTY.
      • chuckDontSurf, on 06/07/2008, -0/+4"Sure I could defend white collar crimesbut somethinglike this.."
        I understand what you're getting at, but let's not forgot how much damage white collar criminals can do (e.g. Enron). Those types of crimes have the tendency to destory many more lives, albeit in much less traumatizing ways.
    • Serris, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1It sounds more like the defense lawyer is doing everything that he can to make sure that this man is as heavily punished as quickly as possible.
  • SteelChicken, on 06/06/2008, -117/+27and yet liberal wankers think the death penalty is wrong.
    • archcvd, on 06/06/2008, -3/+53Oh please, why would you give him such an easy way out? He deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his natural life.
      • Seldon2639, on 06/06/2008, -9/+7Thank you. The death penalty has become so watered down anymore that we make sure it's not painful at all. For me, I'm usually a liberal, I really am, but in this case, I'm okay with throwing out the 8th amendment and coming up with some truly horrific punishments. We try to be reasonable in society, but sometime justice really is the biblical eye for an eye. Sure, it won't be a deterrent, but not everything has to be about the long-term implications
      • DarkShroud, on 06/06/2008, -6/+5He already has a lengthy criminal record. jail obviously doesn't bother him. If he's dead he can't hurt anyone else and it isn't sucking up tax dollars that could be used else where, though most likely waste by congress.
      • mangosinslo, on 06/06/2008, -3/+7There is no reason for him to "rot" in prison on my dime.
        It'd be better spent on some potassium chloride.
        • eir574, on 06/07/2008, -2/+1Death penalty cases are so expensive to litigate and are so often overturned on appeal that it's not necessarily cheaper than life imprisonment, especially since costs are incurred up front with death penalty cases and are spread out over years in life imprisonment cases.
      • Xihix, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4Well, prison isn't that bad. Seriously, a lot of homeless people commit crimes just to live in prison. You get solid meals, activity time, a place to rest.
    • GhostyBoy, on 06/06/2008, -14/+84What the ***** is wrong with you?

      This is a tragedy of the worst kind, and reading it brought tears to my eyes. Then I have to read your ***** stupidity? Honestly, what kind of sick, twisted ***** tries to turn something like this into fuel for his political agenda?

      Seriously, dude: ***** you.
      • Hortnon, on 06/06/2008, -4/+22Agreed, SteelChicken is ***** stupid.
    • atdigg, on 06/06/2008, -15/+7Would you kill him? If not why would you want other person or state to do the dirty work for you?
      If on the other hand you want to kill a person you are probably mentally deranged too...
      • Brownds, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4I could kill this monster without feeling any remorse after reading this article. After what I have seen in Iraq and Afghanistan, sick ***** just like him do to women and children there I can do it without batting an eyelash.
      • Monk22, on 06/06/2008, -1/+4i could suspend my morals for a short time to get this piece of ***** out of society
      • starmanfalls, on 06/06/2008, -3/+2You sound like a pussy to me. Whimpy whimpy whimpy.
    • elnerdo, on 06/06/2008, -6/+13I'll tell you the best reason for why the death penalty is wrong. It's wrong because it's permanent. It's wrong because of the one-in-a-million chance that someone will be wrongly convicted. There have been many documented cases of people who were executed, and then later proven to have been innocent. That is injustice of the greatest caliber. If they instead suffered life in prison, they might have a chance to get some of their life back.
      • Brownds, on 06/06/2008, -6/+0"There have been many documented cases of people who were executed, and then later proven to have been innocent"

        Such as?
      • Mejari, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2And could you please explain to me how being horrifically raped for hours on end isn't 'permanent'? How it isn't something that you live with for the rest of your life?
        • elnerdo, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1Why do you assume that he did it? What if he's innocent?
          Why are you so insistent to jump to radical conclusions?
        • Mejari, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1My 'radical conclusion' that multiple witnesses, victim identification and DNA evidence aren't wrong? You're right, I'm such a wild-card!
        • elnerdo, on 06/07/2008, -1/+1No, your 'radical conclusion' is that that man did it. Yeah. There's a possibility that DNA evidence can fail. There's a possibility that the girl lied about who did it, or improperly identified him, too. That slim possibility is enough to say that he shouldn't be executed.
      • kirralin23, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6Many more than one-in-a-million death penalty convictions have been proven to be wrong.
    • haentz, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3No. You are wrong. And a bad person.
    • mithrasinvictus, on 06/06/2008, -3/+7did fear of the death penalty stop him?
      • vault, on 06/06/2008, -1/+8Did fear of life imprisonment stop him either? No, and actually he's been incarcerated before...for attempted murder.
      • Dibou, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3No, but if this guy had received the death penalty for one of his previous murders then this would never have happened.
    • jcm267, on 06/06/2008, -1/+7No politics here, please.
    • mattmy, on 06/07/2008, -1/+1***** that this guy needs to be tortured repeatedly for the rest of his life he doesn't deserve to have a free thought given to him much less the opportunity to die so easily
    • Vet4Peace, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2It takes a real douche to use this sort of thing for political gain.
      Go kill yourself SteelChicken. You're a failure at life.
  • sonnygill, on 06/06/2008, -18/+118That piece of sh*t needs to die with worse torture than what he put her through.
    • tech9, on 06/06/2008, -1/+11agreed, 19 hours of straight waterboarding and then some..
      • dabomb691, on 06/06/2008, -4/+11lol waterboarding? that doesn't even cause any physical harm. this guy needs a limb chopped off every hour by the hour
        • boobsbr, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6meat grinder
        • BeardDob, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4Even counting his ... fifth limb, that is not near long enough. The poor lass suffered for 19.
        • diggmaddy, on 06/06/2008, -1/+4Will he blend? That is the question!

          Disclaimer: This is not some lame ass attempt to be funny. I honestly think that a blendtek blender test on this guy would be fair enough as a punishment for his deeds. Maybe force his fingers and limbs in the blender slowly and steadily!
        • tech9, on 06/06/2008, -0/+5Although waterboarding does not always cause lasting physical damage, it carries the risks of extreme pain, damage to the lungs, brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, injuries (including broken bones) due to struggling against restraints, and even death.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

          just make him break his own arms and legs from struggling and then re tie him down.
    • boardthis, on 06/06/2008, -7/+7what could possibly have gone on in this man's life for him to treat another human being in such a twisted and morbid way? dying a torturous death won't solve what happened to this young lady and will revert this country back a couple hundred years.

      love and respect one another daily because it would be a safe bet that this guy has been tortured in his lifetime also.
      • popfrogs, on 06/06/2008, -1/+12Accused of murder as a juvenile..some people are just plain evil.
      • HonestAbe, on 06/07/2008, -0/+6Most people are inherently good at heart, and only become evil because of things that happened to them during their lives. Other people are just born evil.
      • cartoonboy, on 06/07/2008, -0/+4Maybe he needs a teddy bear and a little back rub too while you're at it.

        Listen, there are many people in this world who have experienced torture and pain inflicted upon them by others and they do respond by therefore doing it to others. In fact, these are often the people involved in helping others heal. There is absolutely NO excuse for his behaviour... NONE!

        Do not make excuses for him. He doesn't need your help. 200 years of therapy wouldn't help him. He needs to be put down like the animal he is.

    • chaon93, on 06/06/2008, -3/+4I say give her the choice of a loaded .357 to use on him in any way she pleases without reprecussion, or have him be thrown in prison for the rest of his life.
    • Pritchard, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4How about just get over it and end his life? Look at how much better you are than him. Get angry and dehumanize him. You ever consider that he's just as angry as you are and has decided the world could go ***** itself?

      Ideally, people like him could be helped and reintegrated into society. IMO, being able to do such a thing is so far away, *impossible* might be a good way to describe the chances of that happening. Just kill him. Lock him up for life or kill him.
      • Mejari, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3By doing what he did he's dehumanized himself, it's not anything we're doing to him.
        • libervisco, on 06/07/2008, -3/+3No, you're doing it to yourself.

          Look at you people, how easy must it be to control you. Read a story about a terrible enough crime and you will be all over giving up your morals, your rights and seeking nothing but pure revenge. Did anyone stop to think what the hell does revenge do actually? What the hell does it solve?

          Did anyone stop to think about the implications of allowing even the worst possible criminals to be sentenced to death? What if you were wrongly arrested for such a crime and were sentenced to death?

          But nooo..the "smart" masses at digg are all rage now.. absolutely no ***** reason. Just emotions running rampant.

          You guys need to put things into perspective. How about all the desecration of human life and dignity through killing and torture in wars that your government so unscrupulously leads you into? How many death penalties do you suggest? How about a death penalty for George Bush?

          Doesn't quite compute. By your logic we should all kill each other in revenge, as long as we believe the other one did something gross enough for us to just run over all of our principles.

          This was a terrible crime, but what might be even more terrible is the prevalent mentality that people here exhibit about it - the kind of mentality which can easily be abused to fast track these states into a dystopia.

          Sometimes I wish I could just depart this stupidity inhabited planet. Self-defeating morons is what sometimes seems like a perfect definition of "human". At least that's what types like people screaming for death penalty here reduced "human" to.

          No wonder, in such company, that people resort to lunacy or suicide.
        • Mejari, on 06/07/2008, -1/+3"No wonder, in such company, that people resort to lunacy or suicide."
          Feel free, we won't miss ya.
        • muppetFuckr, on 06/07/2008, -0/+0LOL @ stupidity
      • volonix, on 06/07/2008, -1/+2Indeed, two wrongs don't make a right.
  • codyrockx, on 06/06/2008, -47/+19This is why torture used to be a sentence, until people got all "humane" about convictions.
    • GhostyBoy, on 06/06/2008, -10/+23Yeah, man. Let's sink to their level.
      • dabomb691, on 06/06/2008, -5/+3Wow, you care more about your social status than actually ***** the guy up.
        • GhostyBoy, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3Social status I could care less about.

          My soul status, however, is an entirely different matter. And that's hard to keep intact while wishing torture on another living being.
    • elnerdo, on 06/06/2008, -1/+5No, I'm thinking we used torture as a sentence because people were stupid.
    • Vet4Peace, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1Yeah, because countries that use torture have NO CRIME WHATSOEVER. Oh wait, what? They have...more?

      Huh, okay. Nevermind.
      • Uranium118, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1Funny that you mention that. For example, Saudi Arabia has one of the lowest crime rate in the world. Punishments go from stoning to firing squad passing through beheading... their human rights record is one of the worst in the world. But they do have a low crime rate. Fear is a good motivator. I doubt theft would be so popular in North America if we cut of a hand on the each offense.
  • 1KrazyKorean, on 06/06/2008, -1/+147The only thing comes to mind is "wow" How can a person do this to another person..
    • xtinamo, on 06/06/2008, -1/+16There is no excuse for the atrocities this man inflicted, but I truly feel that if we took mental disorders more seriously, horriffic crimes like this could possibly be prevented. There are just some people who cannot function within the realms of basic societal order and must be dealt with realistically.
    • 5oma, on 06/06/2008, -3/+5I agree. How did it get so bad. What can we learn from this?
    • Pritchard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+8By not caring about them. He's obviously very messed up in the head.

      What do you do about those who aren't mentally ill by modern standards, but who are fully aware of the decisions they are making? Separate them from the rest of society? Change them with chemicals? Kill them? It's very difficult...
      • kero552, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2This reminds me of an DI article... something about tests for CEOs being very similar to the tests for pyschopaths.
    • Atlatal, on 06/07/2008, -0/+3If you read his rap-sheet, you see that he has been doing this sort of thing for years!
  • anthonyverre, on 06/06/2008, -2/+68This is quite possibly the most disgusting and shameless thing I've ever heard of. EVER. Honestly, what could possibly possess someone to commit an act like this? This has nothing to do with a power-play, this has everything to do with sickness and a culture of perpetuation. Simply gross.
    • unknownpoltroon, on 06/06/2008, -13/+7He spent 8 years in a U.S. prison. Where else could you learn to behave this way?
    • sleeknerve, on 06/07/2008, -2/+2HE SCORESS!!!!!!!!! ON THE POWER-PLAY!!!!
  • Nodaki, on 06/06/2008, -89/+25I can't find a picture of the accused Robert Williams.

    I assume he is a black man.

    I assume the woman was white.

    I assume Rev. Sharpton will be there to defend him against the racist criminal justice system.





    • GhostyBoy, on 06/06/2008, -10/+49This is one of the single stupidest things I have ever read on digg, and that is saying something.
      • meuse, on 06/06/2008, -14/+10How was it stupid?

        The rapist was black. The victim was white.

        Rev. Al has a history of defending outrageous criminal sexual behavior. Last year he took to the streets to defend 10 black men accused of a three-hour gang-rape of a woman and her son. They forced the woman and her son to have sex with each other.

        http://thecurvature.com/2008/03/24/al-sharpton-and ...
    • atdigg, on 06/06/2008, -12/+10Yeah cause black women never get raped.

      This is such a racist comment that you made, the only sane thing that I can take out of it is that behavior of people like Rev. Sharpton is racist too.
      • meuse, on 06/06/2008, -5/+11Black women get raped all the time. Almost always by black men, though.
        • artfiend77, on 06/06/2008, -2/+6So you're world must still be in shambles when that monster in Austria raped his own daughter for 20 some odd years.....
        • meuse, on 06/06/2008, -5/+3His daughter was white.

          I didn't say that white men don't rape white women.
        • hedron, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1Agreed. If you look at the FBI crime statistics white men never rape black women. Literally 0.

          Of course, I'll be thumbed down because I state facts with reliable sources.
    • bluto36, on 06/06/2008, -8/+7does it matter? just because American media are idiots about anything race related doesnt mean this has to be about race. c'mon does the race really matter here? really?
      • Dibou, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2It very well might. But the article doesn't say why he picked his particular victim. It is possible he was indoctrinated in white hatred but we'll never know. They didn't mention race at all in the article which leads one to guess black perpetrator and white victim. If it was white on black crime it is always reported as such and played up in the media for ever (especially if it happened in West Virginia for instance to further the media's story of that state being racist).
    • halobender, on 06/06/2008, -4/+19He is black, don't know about the woman being white.
      You can find pictures of him online.
      http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/06/0 ...
    • papipablo, on 06/06/2008, -10/+17I assume you're a douche.
    • PolarBearCa, on 06/06/2008, -8/+9You're real good at the internets:

      http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/nyregion/21rape. ...

      Oh! And you're a douche.

      So to summarize, you're a stupid douche.
      • PolarBearCa, on 06/06/2008, -5/+2Guess I should have refreshed the page before posting my reply... heh..
      • papipablo, on 06/06/2008, -4/+3Douchebag.
    • meuse, on 06/06/2008, -5/+25He's correct.

      Williams is black and the victim is white, and of course it's relevant.

      When those meth-heads in West Virginia tortured a black woman, the interracial aspect of the crime was given a lot of attention. And we all remember the Duke lacrosse hoax.
    • DrVandoley, on 06/06/2008, -4/+21So let's get this straight. Nodaki got it right, but he's a racist, for assuming that the perp was black and the victim was white. As if that was such a wild assumption that only a racist might assume it. I think some of you accusers ought to take a look at your sanctimonious selves. He may not be PC, but that doesn't make him a racist.
      Let's see how far down you can digg this comment now.
      • zombies187, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2If you hear a crime story and say it was probably a black guy...that's racist.
        Feel however you want, just don't do it on a job interview.
      • Phatt138, on 06/07/2008, -2/+3You say that DrVandoley, but look at the Al Sharpton comment. Al Sharpton has nothing to do with this. Yes - guilty people have walked free in our country by playing the race card, one way or the other. But I think assuming that Al Sharpton would protect this disgusting human being just because he's black is pretty ridiculous. OP's not racist because he guessed correctly - he's racist because he was looking for a chance to confirm his prejudice. If the attacker had been white, OP would write it off to craziness or drugs. Since he's black, it's...because he's black.
        • DrVandoley, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2Now Al Sharpton; there's a racist. I'm not saying he's always on the wrong side. Sometimes he's helping someone who has been wronged. But due to his racist nature, he's always against the whites, whether it's innocent lacrosse players or the innocent DA, Steven Pagones in the Tawan Brawley case. There are white people who are analagous to Al Sharpton. They are also racists, such as David Duke.
      • mrASSMAN, on 06/07/2008, -1/+2He happened to be right, and it is true that black people have higher crime rates, but I still don't think anyone should assume that the perpetrator and victim is of a certain race just because statistics show it more probable.
    • metric7, on 06/06/2008, -4/+11How is this not a hate crime?
      • Dibou, on 06/06/2008, -2/+7Because the victim was not in a protected class.
        If she was a lesbian then it would have been a hate crime. See how that works now?
    • gr33k, on 06/06/2008, -1/+5I assume you're a ***** tool....it doesn't matter what color anyone is in this, what matters is the bastard that did it rots in hell or suffers for life
    • Rwned, on 06/06/2008, -9/+4Of course he's black. I could tell that about one paragraph into the article. A quick goggling found his mugshot. Black.
      • jcm267, on 06/06/2008, -3/+4You know why one could figure he's probably black? This happened in NEW YORK where most lower class people are black. Other than that, it's pretty racist to just assume that the rapist was black.

        Raise your hand if you know someone who was raped by a white guy.

        /raises hand
        • hedron, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1Oh, yea.. It's because he's among the lower class. /endsarcasm

          If you look at the data that the NYPD collect on violent crime you will see that such a vast disproportion of this type of crime is caused by blacks and the rest is caused by hispanics. Whites virtually never cause this type of crime.

          I've lived in and around NYC all my life and I don't know a single person who hasn't been mugged. I've been mugged X-teen times and that's not even the worst. Of all of that crime, only one time where the perp wasn't black... he was hispanic.

          Don't tell me you know someone who was raped by a white guy. I'd be willing to bet that that was a friend of a friend type story... You know, like that guy who went out partying and woke up a week later with a kidney missing?
    • Mahstah, on 06/06/2008, -6/+5The liberal MSM will only identify the color of a perp if he's white. It's the liberal PC way!
    • AsylumAleikum, on 06/07/2008, -5/+3Evidently, the rapist hates whitey's, just like Michelle Obama.
    • someuser90, on 06/07/2008, -0/+2He was right.

      As I was reading the article, I visualised his as black and her as white too.

      Politically correct people are pathetic.
  • FREETHINKER2008, on 06/06/2008, -19/+142Public stoning for this piece of garbage.
    • mardybum, on 06/06/2008, -14/+7"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"
      • ltethe, on 06/06/2008, -3/+22Well... I'll sit still for a minute for somebody with no sins to cast that first stone.

        And then I'm taking my sinful ass over, and me and each one of my sins are going to be tossing a rock avalanche on this fool.

        The great thing about not being Christian?
        Getting to define your own moral code. Now excuse me while I go collect some rocks.
        • jecruzs, on 06/06/2008, -4/+6You don't really get anything by torturing the man. I despise the man for what he has done, but hurting him will only perpetuate the cycle of violence. They should just lock him up.
          (I'm an atheist, by the way.)
        • mardybum, on 06/06/2008, -2/+10I'm not Christian either, doesn't mean I can't quote the Bible.

          I know everyone's going to digg me down for saying that, and that's why I said it. My point is, you're all describing what horrible gruesome things you would do to this guy given the chance... how does that make you ANY better than the perpetrator himself? Two wrongs still don't make a right.
        • mcrumiller, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6Whoa there. How does it make us any better? Are you kidding me?

          The problem with your logic is that you're saying that every "sin" is equally bad. I'm a better person than the guy who did this. I can say that. Why? Because I would never EVER in a million years so torture, rape, burn, cut, and bludgeon a woman for no reason other than my own self satisfaction. Sure, I've lied before. I've said nasty things to people, hurt their feelings. Yeah, that was bad of me. But it wasn't even CLOSE to as bad as this. I'm almost insulted that you would say my sins are comparable to a crime of this magnitude.

          Oh, finally, I know you're not Christian, but this is the ultimate Christian hypocrisy. It claims that two wrongs don't make a right, so don't burn someone for sin! ...but if you're wrong, you'll burn in hell forever.
        • mardybum, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4mcrumiller: I'm not saying all "sins" are equal. What I'm saying is most people on Digg would NEVER torture, rape, and cut an innocent woman, but based on these comments they would gladly torture, rape, and cut a criminal... it doesn't matter what that person has done, violence is never justified. It still makes you a sick person for doing it, even if that person "deserves" it.

          If we lock the guy up then we do something good for society. If we torture him what good do we do to society, besides making the guy even angrier?
        • mcrumiller, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2Ok, good point and well taken. I think the moral problem, at this point, is determining what constitutes proper punishment and whether or not punishment should really exist at all.

          The purpose of punishment is to deter future behavior for both the perpetrator and for others who might commit similar crimes. In this case, the perpetrator is most likely so insane that I doubt ANY punishment would do anything. Thus, for society's sake, he should be locked up for ever, and/or killed (does this involve violence?). From society's perspective, barring tax dollars, life in prison, death penalty, or banishment to a beautiful island somewhere is the same thing: he is harmless.

          From the moralistic perspective, we should give people what they deserve. This is where it gets tricky: he obviously hurt someone tremendously, so what should he deserve? It's understandable that people think the punishment should fit the crime--the anger they feel at such an act of cowardice and brutality can only be quenched by an equal punishment of violence. Any other punishment and he would be "getting off easy." What makes the punishers and the perpetrators different is their motivation for violence: in one case it's to serve punishment; for the other, it's some twisted form of self gratification.
        • Radan, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1@mardybum:

          Life is the single greatest gift all living creatures will ever get, therefor destroying it for someone else, or even worse, also turning it into the persons worst nightmare in such horrifying and undignifying way like this, instantly burns your "Right to Live" and "Hi! I Don't Deserve to Get Every Single Bone in My Freaking Body Bludgeon By A Sledgehammer into Fine Powder"-cards.

          He is worth less than anything thinkable on Earth, and until he pays for every single minute of the life he ruined, he will have to ***** suffer.
      • kirralin23, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2If you go back to the original the word that is translated as sin really means the same type of sin. I think the majority of the world is without the same type of sin.
    • AbdullahAbuDawu, on 09/12/2008, -2/+15That would be Shari'a. So its cool to have Shari'a law SOMETIMES? Americans are so weird.
      • ShinRaTDR, on 06/07/2008, -1/+5Hypocritical is the word your looking for.
    • sab0tage, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1That would be too good for him.
    • 5oma, on 06/06/2008, -9/+3I save my stoning for women who have sex without permission.
    • dabomb691, on 06/06/2008, -5/+3freethinker go