MAFIA BOSS: GIOVANNI BRUSCA PAROLED FROM PRISON

            On this date, May 31, 2021, Italian Mafia Boss, Giovanni Brusca was released. Amid public backlash, politicians Matteo Salvini of the Lega Nord and Enrico Letta of the Democratic Party were also critical of the decision to release Brusca.

            I will post information about this Mafia Boss from Wikipedia and other links before giving my comments.

Brusca was arrested in 1996.

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Giovanni Brusca (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ˈbruska]; born 20 February 1957) is an Italian mobster and former member of the Corleonesi clan of the Sicilian Mafia. He had a major role in the 1992 murders of Antimafia Commission prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and businessman Ignazio Salvo, and once stated that he had committed between 100 and 200 murders. Brusca had been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for Mafia association and multiple murder. He was captured in 1996, turned pentito, and his sentence reduced to 26 years in prison. In 2021, Brusca was released from prison.

A pudgy, bearded and unkempt mafioso, Brusca was known in Mafia circles as 'u verru (in Sicilian) or il porco or il maiale (in Italian; "the pig", "the swine") or 'u scannacristiani ("the people-slayer"; in the Sicilian language the word cristianu means both "Christian" and "human being"). Tommaso Buscetta, the Mafia turncoat who had cooperated with Falcone’s investigations, remembered Giovanni Brusca as "a wild stallion but a great leader."

INTERNET SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Brusca

Anger as notorious Sicilian mafioso the ‘people-slayer’ is freed

Giovanni Brusca was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life for more than 100 murders

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Those who allow violent criminals the opportunity to kill, maim and rape, share the responsibility for it and the tragedy such crimes produce. More, they allow these monsters to create for all of us a world as dark and evil as their own.

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The release of an infamous Sicilian mafia killer dubbed 'the people slayer' sparks an outcry in Italy

Jacob Sarkisian

Jun 5, 2021, 10:44 AM

• Giovanni Brusca was arrested in 1996.
• Giovanni Brusca is believed to have killed over 100 people.
• Brusca was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• However, he received a reduced sentence after agreeing to colloborate with authorities.

A member of the Sicilian mafia who is believed to have murdered over 100 people has been released from prison following 25 years behind bars.

Giovanni Brusca, 64, was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment after a life of working as the right-hand man for mafia boss Totò Riina.

However, in 2000, Brusca was given a reduced sentence after agreeing to help prosecutors and become an informant. His release from prison has sparked an outcry in Italy, despite it being required by law.

As reported by the Guardian, Enrico Letta, the leader of the center-left Democratic party, said the decision to release Brusca “is a punch in the stomach that leaves you breathless.” Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, said: “After 25 years in prison, the mafia boss Giovanni Brusca is a free man. This is not the ‘justice’ that Italians deserve.”

Amongst Brusca’s most brutal crimes was the killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 11-year-old son of a mafia member who helped out the authorities. Di Matteo was kidnapped in 1993 as a result of his father going against the mafia and was held in a house for over two years before being strangled to death.

His body was then thrown into acid, with police calling the murder “one of the most heinous crimes in the history of the Cosa Nostra,” as reported by the Guardian.

Brusca was also responsible for killing Giovanni Falcone, the prosecuting magistrate who spent his life trying to bring down the mafia. Brusca detonated a bomb in 1992 in Palermo that killed Falcone, his wife, and three bodyguards.

Mario Falcone, sister of Giovanni, told ANSA that the news of Brusca’s release “pains” her but that the law of reducing sentences in return for mafiosos helping authorities was one that her brother wanted.

“Therefore it must be respected,” Falcone said. “I only hope the judiciary and police will be vigilant, with extreme attention, in order to avert the risk that he commit crimes again.”

Many relatives of Brusca’s victims do not believe he has repented for his crimes, nor do they feel he has ever told the full truth to authorities.

Luciano Traina, the police officer who arrested Brusca in Agrigentovilla in 1996, told Repubblica: “I will never forget the look on his face when we arrested him.”

Traina, who is the brother of another police officer who was killed by Cosa Nostra, continued: “I will never forgive him. Because I do not believe Brusca has ever told the whole truth.”

After deciding to collaborate with the authorities, Brusca’s information led to the arrest of other murderers and members of Cosa Nostra.

As reported by Repubblica, Brusca told prosecutors after he turned informant: “I’m an animal. I worked all my life for Cosa Nostra. I have killed more than 150 people. I can’t even remember all their names.”

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MY COMMENTS:

            As a consequence in Italy the first pre-unitarian state to abolish the death penalty was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as of November 30, 1786, under the reign of Pietro Leopoldo, later Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. So Tuscany was the first civil state in the world to do away with torture and capital punishment. Cities for Life Day was celebrated as a bank holiday in Tuscany until 2011, when it was removed under austerity measures.

            Cities for Life Day, a worldwide festivity that supports the abolition of the death penalty. It is celebrated on November 30 of each year. Surprisingly, a mafia boss was released from serving life sentence in that country, Italy. It proves the point that any country that abolishes the death penalty, will abolish life sentences next.

            Just like the State of Illinois, Ray Larsen among rising number of aged convicts to be released. He’d been doing 100 to 300 years after confessing he killed Frank Casolari, 16, in 1972. In recent years, Illinois has paroled a double ax-murderer, other heinous killers, too. The Italian people are outraged at the release of this Mafia Boss who claimed that he had murdered 150 people.

            The next time, if any EU citizen dares to lecture your country on death penalty and life imprisonment. Tell them about this case. Do not be surprise if Brusca might reoffend again like Albert Flick,       a 77-year-old man previously deemed "too old to be a threat" was sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing a woman in front of her children, four decades after he was convicted of a nearly identical crime. This is another great example of why Prisoner Rights Activists will remain silent as it is too extremely embarrassing for them to talk about recidivist killers.

[https://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2019/08/77-year-old-albert-flick-murdered-again.html]

"If a man is a danger to the community, threatening it with disintegration by some wrongdoing of his, then his execution for the healing and preservation of the common good is to be commended.  Only the public authority, not private persons, may licitly execute malefactors by public judgment. Men shall be sentenced to death for crimes of irreparable harm or which are particularly perverted."

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 11; 65-2; 66-6. http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2016/01/saint-thomas-aquinas-on-death-penalty.html

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 11; 65-2; 66-6.

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2016/01/saint-thomas-aquinas-on-death-penalty.html

OTHER LINKS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_for_Life_Day

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-loving-memory-of-desiree-mariottini.html

WHY ARE SO MANY ITALIANS IN FAVOR OF THE DEATH PENALTY?

Answering this question is important to analyze how everything that is extreme and violent is increasingly accepted and normalized.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=4167812166610224&id=105048709553277

https://italicsmag.com/2021/05/20/why-are-so-many-italians-in-favor-of-the-death-penalty/

 

QUINTON JONES EXECUTED IN TEXAS ON MAY 19, 2021

            On this date, May 19, 2021, Quintin Jones was executed by lethal injection in Texas, for the 1999 killing of his great aunt, Berthena Bryant. However, Jones also committed other murders. Please hear from one of the victim’s daughter at the bottom.

   

Quintin Jones received the lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the September 1999 killing of Berthena Bryan.

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Quintin Jones
Born	Quintin Phillippe Jones July 15, 1979 Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Died	May 19, 2021 (aged 41) Huntsville, Texas, U.S.
Cause of death	Execution by lethal injection
Criminal status	Executed
Conviction(s)	Capital murder
Criminal penalty	Death (March 16, 2001)
Details
Victims	Berthena Bryant
Date	September 11, 1999

 

Quintin Phillippe Jones (July 15, 1979 – May 19, 2021) was an American man from Livingston, Texas, who was executed for the 1999 killing of his great aunt, Berthena Bryant. Bryant's family and over 180,000 other people petitioned Texas Governor Greg Abbott for clemency to commute his death sentence to a life sentence. He was executed on May 19, 2021, the first execution in the US in almost 30 years without any media presence.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintin_Jones_(prisoner)

Biography

Jones experienced 'brutal conditions' during his childhood, suffering neglect by his parents, sexual assault by his siblings, and extreme poverty. His mother threatened him with a gun and he was forced at age 7 by his older siblings to have sex with his stepsister. He shot himself twice, once in the hand to placate gang members and later in the chest in a suicide attempt. He became addicted to drugs by his early teens.

Crime

On September 11, 1999, Jones murdered his great aunt, 83-year-old Berthena Bryant, bludgeoning her to death, after she refused to give him money to purchase cocaine. He was high on heroin and cocaine during the murder.

Trial

Jones admitted to the killing during the trial and showed remorse. The Bryant family gave evidence in the trial of Jones' mental illness and addiction. Jones was sentenced to death and spent 21 years on death row with 23 hours a day in solitary confinement.

Michael Mowla, Jones' attorney, later filed a habeas corpus motion in Texas state court, arguing that prosecutors gave unscientific testimony during the trial, violating Jones' rights. Texas state law only allows the death penalty on the argument of “future dangerousness”, Jones had no record of violence in prison.

The online news media Austin American-Statesman have highlighted racial bias in his sentencing. They have compared Jones to Riky “Red” Roosa who was convicted of murdering two people and was given a life sentence with the possibility of parole. Jones, who is black, was sentenced to death for one murder.

Clemency petition

Bryant's family, with help from several other people and organisations, petitioned for Texas Governor Greg Abbott to grant clemency to Jones. They began an unsuccessful petition which reached over 180,000 signatures. Abbott had previously given clemency in 2019 to Thomas “Bart” Whitaker for the murder of his mother and brother, after his father Kent Whitaker, who was shot during the attack, pleaded for clemency.

• Mattie Long, sister of murder victim Berthena Bryant, wrote in the clemency petition to Governor Abbott "I have forgiven him, I love him very much... I am writing this to ask you to please spare Quintin's life".
• Writer Suleika Jaouad called for clemency. Jones supported her through treatment for leukemia with a 30% chance of survival in her 20s. She wrote a book about her friendship with Jones, 'Between Two Kingdoms'.
• Benjamin Jones, Quintin's twin brother stated in the clemency petition “Both of us have long forgiven Quin. Please don’t cause us to be victimized again through Quin’s execution.”
• Jones worked with the New York Times to ask for clemency from Governor Abbott stating 'I'm writing this letter to ask you if you could find it in your heart to grant me clemency, so I don't get executed on 19 May. I got two weeks to live, starting today.'.
• On May 10, he was featured in the New York Times essay 'Quintin Jones Is Not Innocent, But He Doesn’t Deserve to Die'.

   

"If a man is a danger to the community, threatening it with disintegration by some wrongdoing of his, then his execution for the healing and preservation of the common good is to be commended.  Only the public authority, not private persons, may licitly execute malefactors by public judgment. Men shall be sentenced to death for crimes of irreparable harm or which are particularly perverted."

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 11; 65-2; 66-6. http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2016/01/saint-thomas-aquinas-on-death-penalty.html

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 11; 65-2; 66-6.

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2016/01/saint-thomas-aquinas-on-death-penalty.html

Execution

Jones was executed by lethal injection at 6:40 PM CDT on May 19, 2021. While members of the media were scheduled to be present to witness the execution, they were not admitted to the prison by authorities due to a communication error, making it the first execution in nearly 30 years without a media presence.

Before his execution, Jones made this final statement:

I would like to thank all of the supporting people who helped me over the years. To mad Maddie, my twin Sonja, Angie, and all the homies. AKA money and Peruvian queen including crazy Dominican. I was so glad to leave this world a better, more positive place. It's not an easy life with all the negativities. Love all my friends and all the friendships that I have made. They are like the sky. It is all part of life, like a big full plate of food for the soul. I hope I left everyone a plate of food full of happy memories, happiness and no sadness. I'm done, warden.

My father Clark Edward Peoples, Jr. as senselessly murdered by Quintin Jones in Fort Worth, Tx in 1999. Quintin has been on death row for 20+ years and is to be executed this Wednesday by the state of Texas. What he gruesomely did to my father is being omitted and it makes me sick to my stomach. I have to let the full story by told.

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See also

• List of offenders executed in the United States in 2021
• List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present

JOSEPH FIDEL ALLINIECE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF BRITTANI YOUNG (APRIL 30, 2021)

             On this date, April 30, 2021, Joseph Fidel Alliniece was sentenced to death for the murder of Brittani Young on April 24, 2018. Alliniece reminds of me of Thai Murderer, Ronnakorn Romruen, both who were abusive towards woman.

From left: Brittani Young and Joe Alliniece

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.oklahoman.com/article/5603920/death-penalty-sought-in-fatal-stomping-case-in-norman]

Jury sentences Texas man to death in murder of Norman woman

By Emma Keith and Reese Gorman | The Transcript

A Cleveland County jury sentenced a man found guilty of murdering a Norman woman to the death penalty Friday evening after five hours of deliberation.

The jury on Monday found Joseph Fidel Alliniece, 32, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2018 killing of Norman resident Brittani Young, along with one count of robbery by force or fear and two counts of kidnapping.

On Friday, hours after impassioned closing statements from both the state and the defense, the jury decided the death sentence was appropriate.

Alliniece killed Young, 27, inside her Emerald Greens Apartments residence April 24, 2018, stomping on her multiple times. Young, a former girlfriend of Alliniece’s, had allowed him to stay with her while he visited Oklahoma from Texas.

Young’s mother and sister testified this week that her murder was deeply traumatic for them and has had lasting mental and emotional impact.

“She allowed him to come up here from Houston and stay with her, and he took advantage of that,” Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said. “He started being disrespectful toward her, and when she finally was trying to push him out — not physically, but just trying to get him to get his stuff and leave — and telling him she was going to call the police, that was when he brutally murdered her right in the middle of her living room floor.”

The death penalty was only one of several options — including life with or without the possibility of parole — handed to the jury by the court.

The Cleveland County District Attorney’s Office filed for the death penalty in Alliniece’s case in August 2018. The office last sought the death penalty in a 2014 beheading case involving Alton Nolen, who was convicted of first-degree murder and five counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

Friday morning, attorneys for the state pushed the jury to consider the death penalty, working to support the idea that Alliniece may have started his life as a kind and sweet son and friend but had become a man whose ongoing decisions to choose violence posed a physical threat to those close to him.

Assistant District Attorney Christy Miller detailed to the jury how Young would have been alive and struggling when Alliniece beat her and stomped her head, tearing off one of her ears and leaving blood in her airways and lungs. After killing Young, Alliniece also held hostage her friend and her friend’s toddler, leading to the additional charges.

“He didn’t care about her suffering — he didn’t care what he was doing to Brittani that day,” Miller said. “He was completely pitiless and differential that day.”

For the jury to consider the death penalty for Alliniece, the state was tasked with proving that Alliniece’s actions were heinous, cruel and atrocious, that he has a history of violence and that he poses a continuing threat.

Miller cited Alliniece’s history of violence toward women — from a 2010 incident in which Alliniece allegedly bit a woman’s forehead, a 2016 incident where he punched down and stomped on another girlfriend and an incident April 2 of this year in which he groped a woman at the county jail — as evidence that his track record of harm is ongoing.

“It’s another piece to show you that he will not stop — he will not stop, in jail or out of jail,” Miller said. “Nobody’s safe from him, no matter where he is.”

The defense, meanwhile, pleaded to jurors for mercy in its closing argument, asking them to consider other sentencing options for the sake of Alliniece and his family, who defense attorney Raven Sealy said “still believe his life has purpose.”

The defense team brought forward Alliniece’s parents and close family friends Thursday, piecing together memories of Alliniece as a thoughtful child and friend in his youth.

Sealy said Friday that jurors could only deliver the death penalty if the state had convinced them, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the aggravating circumstances in Alliniece’s case outweighed any mitigating circumstances they saw.

“This decision isn’t easy — it shouldn’t be. You are faced with a horrendous crime and faced with what to do with a man’s life,” Sealy said. “... The state says that Joe Alliniece deserves the death penalty, that he has earned the death penalty. Ladies and gentlemen, mercy is mitigation. Mercy is a reason not to give the death penalty. Mercy is not deserved, mercy is not earned.”

The defense declined to comment after the sentence was delivered Friday evening.

Mashburn argued Friday to the jury that while mercy was an option, jurors could pick another path for Alliniece.

“You can show mercy and use sympathy in that, but should you? Should you do that, for this guy?” Mashburn said to the jury.

Mashburn said after the sentence was delivered that justice was done for Young on Friday.

“Like I told the jury, he aggravated this crime to such an extent that the punishment needed to be aggravated, as well,” Mashburn said. “The death sentence should be reserved for the worst of the worst, and, clearly, Joseph Alliniece is the worst of the worst. Justice was done today, for sure.”

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Brittani Rose Young

(March 20, 1991 to April 24, 2018)

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Family Calls For Death Penalty For Norman Murder Suspect

Tuesday, May 1st 2018, 9:30 pm

By: Bonnie Campo

A week after a brutal murder at a Norman apartment, the suspect, 29-year-old Joseph Alliniece faces new charges.

Alliniece is accused of killing 27-year-old Brittani Rose Young by stomping on her head, and injuring other parts of her body while she lay on the floor of her apartment.

“He took my Brittani Rose. He took my girl. He stole something from everybody. He didn't have the right. He didn't have the right. He is going to have to pay. There is going to be a reckoning,” said the victim’s father Todd Roberts.

Investigators say the murder happened last Tuesday at the Emerald Green Apartments around 3 p.m., and that Young’s mother was one of the people who discovered her body.

Alliniece was formally charged Tuesday May 1, with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of kidnapping.

Read Related Story: Charges Filed In Brutal Norman Murder

Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said Alliniece pulled a woman and small child into Young's apartment with him at some point during the crime.

Later, witnesses said they saw him running from the scene.

“A friend came to check on her, with her child. And, he pulled them into the apartment, both the adult and child and held them there against their will. That's how we have two kidnapping counts,” Cleveland County District Attorney Mashburn said.

Alliniece was arrested hours later. He was found in Oklahoma City at the OG Food Mart, and court records state there was blood on his shoes and cellphone.

Brittani's father said Alliniece should be sentenced to the death penalty.

“My sole purpose is to make sure her voice is heard, and justice served complete,” said Roberts.

Court records indicate on the day of the crime, Alliniece quote "...did not remember anything that happened today...". He did recall making a phone call to a witness in the case, and "getting a ride to OKC...".

The DA's office said he's recently offered up more information, but it is still too early to know how they will pursue the case.

“There is a second interview wherein he does make some admissions in this case, so that will definitely be brought out in this case as well,” said Mashburn.

Alliniece is being held on a $5 million bond.

His next court date will be at 9:00 a.m.  Tuesday, May 22.

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https://www.news9.com/story/5e348e9a527dcf49dad7c7e8/family-calls-for-death-penalty-for-norman-murder-suspect

Brittani Rose Young

(March 20, 1991 to April 24, 2018)

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189475029/brittani-rose-young/photo]

Funeral services for Brittani Rose Roberts-Young, 27, are pending with Brown-Thomas Funeral Home. Brittani was born March 20, 1991 in Sacramento, CA. She passed away on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 in Norman, Ok.

Father: Todd Roberts

Husband: Steve Young

NORMAN, Oklahoma - Family and friends of a homicide victim in Norman spent Saturday paying tribute to her memory. Brittani Young was brutally murdered in her apartment on Tuesday.

Her loved ones are focusing on remembering happier times and seeking justice. Brittani's beautiful face will never be seen in person again, and her family says because of this heinous crime, her killer deserves the death penalty.

They released balloons in remembrance and prayer, as their tears flowed freely, mourning a life cut short at just 27 years old. “She was fun,” says Brittani’s father Todd Roberts. “She smiled all the time. You won’t see a picture where she wasn’t smiling.”

Brittani's loved ones are all trying to understand why her killer decided to turn on her, stomping on her head until she was gone. Her husband Steve Young tells me the suspect, Joe Alliniece, was a shadow from her past, who made threats to her over text messages multiple times.

An ex-cop himself, Young wishes he could have protected his wife. He says, “Never in my worst dreams did I ever think this guy would ever show up again, but here we are.”

Young and Roberts now say there is only one punishment that fits the crime. “I hope he gets the death penalty,” says Roberts. “I hope the DA is strong enough not to plea bargain, because I don’t want to accept anything less than a death penalty.”

Young adds, “If it was your own daughter, if it was your wife, what would you want? All I want is justice.”

They hope to address domestic violence on a wider scale, so Brittani's spirit can live on, with a purpose. “We’ve got to look toward the future, not the past,” says Young. “She’s in heaven she accepted Jesus. She’s in heaven. Let’s stay focused on that.”

Once her autopsy is complete, Brittani's funeral will be held in Kentucky. Her family is collecting donations for expenses. From News9.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189475029/brittani-rose-young

Brittani Rose Young

(March 20, 1991 to April 24, 2018)

OTHER LINKS:

https://www.koco.com/article/breaking-joseph-alliniece-sentenced-to-death/36305011

CHRISTIANITY LINKS:

https://excharismatics.com/how-to-get-saved-without-sinners-prayer/

https://christiantoday.com.au/news/the-sinners-prayer-isnt-going-to-save-you-from-hell.html

THAILAND’S JACK THE RIPPER SENTENCED TO DEATH (MARCH 17, 2021)

Thailand is a Buddhist country so people are always questioning why executions are allowed here. Yes, killing is sinful but Buddhism teaches us to look at the intention behind the act. The intention here is to protect the country, so it is permitted. Since the Sukhothai dynasty, the King has gone out to fight wars. He and his troops have had to kill enemies to protect the country - execution is the same. [Quoted in THE REAL BANGKOK HILTON BBC Documentary 22 July 2004]

- Phra Kru Non Thawat is the head monk of Lap Lae temple, which is just on the other side of the wall from the execution chamber of Bang Kwang Prison. He has given the last rites to every prisoner executed at Bang Kwan.

            

Khon Kaen police with the 55-year-old serial killer who tortured and murdered his 51-year-old victim in the Kranuan district of the province on the 15th December 2019. He also stole from the woman with whom he moved in with 10 days previously. He murdered her just 7 months following his parole after being originally sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of 5 women in hotel bedrooms across Thailand.

           On March 17, 2021, the Khon Kaen Provincial Court has passed the death sentence on paroled serial killer Somkid Phumphuang for the murder of a woman in 2019 in Kranuan district. Keep in mind, Somkid was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering five women in 2005. They were singers and masseuses. He was arrested in the same year. Media reports dubbed him "Thailand's Jack the Ripper".

           I feel that he is no different from Kenneth McDuff. Just like Barry Hadlow, Lenny Keith Lawson and Keith Burley, Jr., Somkid was a brilliant actor to fool the parole board to release them.  That us why death is a stronger lock than life imprisonment. There is no way a dead killer can reoffend again.

   

Puampong was released from prison seven months ago after murdering five womenCredit: AFP or licensors

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10570435/thailands-jack-the-ripper-released-murder-good-behaviour/]

 

Paroled serial killer sentenced to death for 2019 murder

published : 2 Apr 2021 at 15:11

KHON KAEN: The Khon Kaen Provincial Court has passed the death sentence on paroled serial killer Somkid Phumphuang for the murder of a woman in 2019 in Kranuan district.

The provincial court on Friday made public its ruling in the murder case, posting the documents announcing its decision in front of the court. The court delivered judgement on March 17.

Somkid, 56, was arraigned for the premediated murder of a woman, involving torturing her, theft and concealment of her body.

The court sentenced him to death for the murder. He was initially also given two years in prison for theft and 12 months for concealment of the body.

The jail term for the theft was then increased to three years, under Section 93 of the Criminal Code for any action that affects a corpse or the place where a corpse was found, before the autopsy was performed, and the offence relating to the corpse was also increased, to 16 months, the documents said.

During police interrogation, the defendant had confessed to the murder because of the evidence against him. In court, he denied the charges and fought the case.

The court found he had committed the same offence in six cases.

He was convicted and sentenced for five previous murders. The sixth murder was committed only six months after he was released on parole.

As the defendant showed no fear of the law and no remorse for his actions, the court gave him the death sentence, according to the documents in the case.

Somkid was arrested on a Surin-Bangkok train at Pak Chong in Nakhon Ratchasima on Dec 18, 2019, for the murder of Ratsami Mulichan, 51, at her house in Kranuan district of Khon Kaen.

Ratsami died of suffocation. Her body was wrapped with a blanket, naked from the waist down. Her wrists and ankles had been tied. An electrical wire was fastened around her neck, held with transparent adhesive tape.

Somkid was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering five women in 2005. They were singers and masseuses. He was arrested in the same year. Media reports dubbed him "Thailand's Jack the Ripper".

He was paroled and let free on May 17, 2019. The Corrections Department said he was a "model prisoner". He was arrested in December that year for the murder of Ratsami, who was his sixth victim.

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Thailand’s Jack The Ripper arrested in 2005

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Killer sentenced to death for the 2nd time for the murder of a woman 7 months after being paroled

April 6, 2021 at 1:14 am

by Carla Boonkong & Pranee O' Connor

A pathological woman killer who stole money from his victims as well as their lives. In its judgment in the case, the Khon Kaen Provincial Court certified that Mr Somkid Pumpuang was a remorseless and cruel killer who posed a grave threat to the public if ever released again from prison as it sentenced him, on March 17th, to death without granting mercy.

A Thai court in March sentenced a serial killer who was originally sentenced to be executed in 2005 for the murder of 5 women in hotels across a similar number of provinces to death for the second time after the torture and rape of a 51-year-old hotel maid at her home in Khon Kaen on December 15th 2019, just seven months after he was granted parole and released from prison.

News emerged over the weekend that a Thai serial killer, originally sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of five women but who managed to be released on parole in May 2019, was formally sentenced to death again by the Provincial Court in Khon Kaen on March 17th last for the murder of another woman, 51-year-old Ratsami Mulichan at her home in Khon Kaen on the 15th December 2019.

Police believe that there was a strong sexual element in the perverse and cruel murders committed by the man

A pathological woman killer who stole money from his victims as well as their lives. In its judgment in the case, the Khon Kaen Provincial Court certified that Mr Somkid Pumpuang was a remorseless and cruel killer who posed a grave threat to the public if ever released again from prison as it sentenced him, on March 17th, to death without granting mercy.

A Thai court in March sentenced a serial killer who was originally sentenced to be executed in 2005 for the murder of 5 women in hotels across a similar number of provinces to death for the second time after the torture and rape of a 51-year-old hotel maid at her home in Khon Kaen on December 15th 2019, just seven months after he was granted parole and released from prison.

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Khon Kaen police with the 55-year-old serial killer who tortured and murdered his 51-year-old victim in the Kranuan district of the province on the 15th December 2019. He also stole from the woman with whom he moved in with 10 days previously. He murdered her just 7 months following his parole after being originally sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of 5 women in hotel bedrooms across Thailand.

News emerged over the weekend that a Thai serial killer, originally sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of five women but who managed to be released on parole in May 2019, was formally sentenced to death again by the Provincial Court in Khon Kaen on March 17th last for the murder of another woman, 51-year-old Ratsami Mulichan at her home in Khon Kaen on the 15th December 2019.

Police believe that there was a strong sexual element in the perverse and cruel murders committed by the man

Case caused shock and public outcry in Thailand at the end of 2019 and the beginning of last year

There was both shock and a furore after the arrest of 55-year-old Somkid Pumpuang on a Bangkok bound train from Surin on December 18th 2019 by police at Pak Chong Railway Station where he was identified by a witness.

His case caused a public outcry in Thailand at the time with demands for the death penalty to be brought back into more regular and frequent use.

MP proposed that rapists should be castrated

It also drew a proposal from Samut Songkhram MP, Rangsima Rodrasmi, that convicted rapists in Thailand in certain circumstances, be subject to chemical castration orders.

The proposal which came before a committee of the House of Representatives, weeks after the murder, even received qualified support from Minister of Justice Somsak Thepsutin, at the time.

Khon Kaen Provincial Court sentenced the killer to death for the second time for another heinous crime

On March 17th last, the Khon Kaen court sentenced Mr Somkid to death after finding him guilty of the premeditated murder of the woman.

It imposed on him a three-year term for theft from the victim and a third sentence of one year and four months for concealment of her body.

Evidence read out in court showed that Ms Ratsami had died from suffocation.

Her body was found wrapped in a blanket and was naked from the waist down.

Her wrists and ankles had been bound while an electrical wire had been fastened around her neck and held with adhesive tape.

Media dubbed him as Thailand’s ‘Jack the Ripper’ in a country where sexual serial killers are rare

Thai media had dubbed the killer as Thailand’s ‘Jack the Ripper’ in a country where such killers are, according to informed police sources, seldom found despite the country’s high homicide rate and chronic problem with violence against women.

The same source suggests that the pathological serial killer undoubtedly had left behind as yet unknown victims.

In its judgment in March, the court noted that the convicted man had committed similar crimes on at least five previous occasions.

It also confirmed that the man showed absolutely no remorse for his crime and was a danger to the public if ever released again.

Trang native first sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of 5 women linked with the nightlife and sex industry at hotels in different provinces

In 2005, Somkid, originally from Trang province in southern Thailand, was sentenced to death when he was convicted of the murder of 5 women believed to have been nightclub workers, masseuses and sex workers at various hotels in Trang, Lampang, Buri Ram, Mukdahan and Udon Thani.

The serial killer had a pattern of stealing money from his victims as well as raping and torturing them.

Death sentence commuted to life leading to the ‘model prisoner’ being granted parole in May 2019

In 2005, his sentence was commuted by the court from death to life imprisonment and thereafter he was described by the Corrections Department as a ‘model prisoner’ who benefitted from a range of sentence reductions and amnesties until he was finally granted parole on the 17th May 2019.

This was less than fifteen years after being sentenced to death and followed a decision by the prison service parole board.

Moved in to live with his sixth victim on December 5th 2019, Somkid murdered her after 10 days

On December 5th, locals in the Kranuan district of Khon Kaen observed that Mr Sompong appeared to have moved in with Ms Ratsami who worked as a hotel maid locally.

He murdered the woman at her home on December 15th and fled the scene until he was captured by police three days later on the train.

Following his arrest, the killer, confronted by overwhelming evidence, confessed to police that he had committed the murder but then rescinded his confession in subsequent court pleadings.

This was one of the reasons for the court finding on March 17th that there was no basis whatsoever to grant mercy to the serial killer whose death sentence was confirmed.

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“The death penalty is legitimate. Many cases of severe crime have happened. Capital punishment exists to guarantee national peace and teach lessons. It is a necessity for us and people want it,” the prime minister said.

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The prison’s resident Buddhist monk – like the majority of Thai people – has little sympathy for drug traffickers: “Drug dealing is a type of mass murder - it can destroy whole families. If a child becomes addicted to drugs, he drags down his whole family with him. The child starts to steal everything, which ruins the family’s reputation in society. A murderer typically kills only one person. Drug dealers don’t kill just one person - they ruin everyone’s lives.” [Quoted in THE REAL BANGKOK HILTON BBC Documentary 22 July 2004]

A Buddhist monk, Hsing Yun claimed that the abolishment of capital punishment is not valid by the laws of karma and vipāka in Buddhism. He has written, "However, although "severe punishments in chaotic time (亂世用重典)" do not necessarily have effects in stopping crimes, abolishing capital punishment is not valid by the laws of karma and vipāka in Buddhism, because "a karma as such induces a vipāka as such (如是因，招感如是果)"; having committed a karma without experiencing the vipāka is not compatible with reason. Hence, we can wish to reduce the capital punishment, not to recur to the capital punishment, to substitute the capital punishment by other measures, but we do not claim for the abolishment of the capital punishment."

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