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Monday, October 3, 2011

A Heinous Crime

This particular piece of shit

William Oliver Dickerson, Jr.

has a lengthy criminal record that is peppered with violent crimes. For instance, in 1996 two police officers were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on him when he ran from them.  During the pursuit, he produced a handgun from his waistband, pointing it at officers. He refused to drop the gun when ordered. The police officers each did a double tap on him and he was wounded in the shoulder and ear.
He was convicted of crimes related to this and the outstanding warrant.
Some ten years later, he's out of prison and back at it.

In March of 2006, a male acquaintance of Dickerson was found bludgeoned to death in an empty apartment of a government housing complex. Almost immediately, evidence pointed to him and an arrest warrant was issued.  A BOLO was put out that this shit head was armed and potentially dangerous. Like the idiot he is, he never made any attempt to flee the area and police apprehended him 2 days later. Police were very tight lipped about the nature of the victim's injuries, other than to say he was badly beaten and tortured.

In 2009, Dickerson went on trial for Kidnapping, Murder and Criminal Sexual Assault. It was during his trial that the gruesome details of this heinous crime came to light.
Dickerson was on trial for kidnapping the victim and forcibly dragging him to an empty apartment. He tied him up with cords and began an 18 hour monstrous torture of the victim by burning him, cutting him over 200 times, knocking out his teeth, and then sodomized him with 2 objects before he finally strangled him to death.
It took only 2 hours for the jury to find him guilty on all counts and sentenced him to the death penalty.

Naturally, Dickerson's attorney appealed these findings and yesterday it was heard before the SC State Supreme Court.  The highest court in the state upheld that conviction. The Justices state that "there was no indication that the proceedings were tainted in any way and that the sentence was anything other than a rational response to the evidence presented."
How long will it take for the actual execution, I wonder?  Will His Holiness the Pope call at the 11th hour pleading for mercy? If you ask me, giving this pathetic excuse for a human being the needle, is almost too good for him.

It must be some kind of twisted gene in his family.....His father, William Oliver Dickerson, is serving a life sentence without parole for the beating death of an elderly woman.


2 comments:

Mad Jack said...

You're right on one count, maybe two. The death penalty is too good for him. I'd actually prefer to see him in prison for the rest of his natural life, making little rocks out of big ones.

The thing I notice about the media and crime is that no one wonders what else this piece of fertilizer has been up to before he got caught. You really think he's been living a quiet, uneventful life until he decided to torture someone to death?

The comment about heredity and propensity for violent crime is controversial. There is a theory that certain people, because of their genetic makeup, are much more prone to commit violent crime. There's scientific evidence to back this up, but the scientific community isn't pursuing it too hard because of the obvious potential for misuse. Imagine having your DNA tested and being informed that you're an undesirable and as such must be relocated to a new government funded compound in New York or Los Angeles - your choice. It's for your own protection.

If the police had shot a little straighter the first time most of us would be better off. Arguably ALL of us would be better off. I say we give those officers eight weeks of ammo and a firearms instructor.

Older School said...

I'd have to say that the liberal media didn't care what kind of useless piece of garbage Dickerson was. They only reported that 2 cops shot at a black male. Isn't that always the way?

When police initially tried to serve an arrest warrant on him, he ran and many officers were giving chase. It was about 2 blocks later that he was cornered.
Practical firearms exercises prove that after physical exertion, or an extreme adrenaline rush, your shooting capabilities diminish drastically. For all we know, the cops could have been shooting at him on the run. I do agree, though. Just a little further left might have done the trick.
In less than 10 years, he's back out on the street.

There are many heated debates about DNA, cloning, etc.
I believe that DNA should be taken from all prisoners for a variety of reasons. Chief among them is that several cold cases have been solved based on DNA taken from those already incarcerated.
The military requires their service people to have their DNA on file and reasons for that don't need an explanation. However, I believe in everyone's right to privacy and to randomly give up my DNA for testing is going to take some court orders.
As many body fluids that they've extracted from me throughout the years, who knows if my DNA really isn't stored somewhere?