18 y.o.boy who massacred his grandparents & an uncle,gets death penalty sentence,in OH
Joe1orbit
Only 90 minutes left until I must and will leave on my monthly trip, and
since I want to squeeze in at least 3 more posts, my commentaries will have to
be shorter than usual.
A few days ago, I posted the fact that 19 year old Antonio Franklin had been
found guilty of massacring both of his grandparents and his uncle. A triple
family murder, very impressive! The jury and the judge had the option of
imposing various types of sentences, including the possibility of parole. But
guess what? I jury yesterday recommended that this 19 year old BOY be LEGALLY
MURDERED, by your society, the society that created him. And the judge? He
accepted the jury's recommendation, and imposed the death penalty upon Antonio.
What an OUTRAGE! Antonio got the death penalty because he was a SLAVE, a
subhuman creature, who found the COURAGE and internal RAGE to target OLDER,
adult members of his Sacred Family Unit. If he were a Daddy who killed his
children, there is virtually NO chance that he would gotten a death sentence.
It's just so PATHETIC how you humans choose to punitively punish a VICTIM like
Antonio, who was enslaved at birth to his Family Unit, as a totally helpless,
defenseless, and supremely vulnerable infant, baby, and child. Your society
forced Antonio to live as a slave, without making ANY attempt to even try and
determine whether his adult family unit members were qualified to be entrusted
with providing proper care to him. And just because this slave chose to seek
and claim justifiable vengeance, he will himself be murdered, based upon the
notion that your society has so kind of a mORAL or ETHICAL or LEGAL right to
"punish" him for his actions. How totally ridiculous!
I appreciate and admire Antonio's choice to claim familial vengeance through
triple murder. And I recognize that what your society, in the form of 12 jurors
and a judge, chose to do yesterday, serves to validate and reinforce the
absolute RIGHT of all abused children to rise up and claim murderous vengeance
against ANY member of the human race, at any point in time, regardless of their
age.
We get confirmation below that Antonio was only 18 years old when he carried
out this VERY impressive triple murder, last year. Antonio showed little
emotion as the death sentence was imposed upon him, and declined to make any
statement either before or after the sentencing. His ACTIONS spoke for
themselves, and PROVE that he is a VICTIM of your society. By imposing a death
penalty upon Antonio, your society makes him MORE of a victim than all 3 of the
humans he killed put together, and a genuine MARTYR as well.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of yesterday's Associated Press news wire:
Man Given Death for Family Killings
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A man convicted of killing his grandparents and uncle and
torching their home was sentenced to death Thursday.
Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge James Gilvary accepted a jury's
recommendation and imposed the death penalty on 19-year-old Antonio Franklin.
The jury had found Franklin guilty of aggravated murder, arson and robbery in
the April 1997 slayings.
Franklin had been living with his grandparents, Ivory Franklin, 75, and Ophelia
Franklin, 71. Prosecutors said he beat his grandfather and his uncle, Anthony
Franklin, 38, with a baseball bat, shot his grandmother in the head, then set
the house on fire. He also was charged with stealing jewelry from the house.
Franklin then drove to Nashville, Tenn., where he was arrested.
AP-NY-08-27-98
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The following appears courtesy of the 8/28/98 online edition of The Dayton
Daily News newspaper:
Franklin to die for crimes
By Rob Modic
DAYTON DAILY NEWS
A Montgomery County judge followed a jury's recommendation Thursday and ordered
Antonio Sanchez Franklin be executed for killing his uncle and grandparents.
Franklin is the fourth man to be sentenced to death for crimes committed in
Montgomery County since Ohio reimposed the death penalty in 1981. He will be
the 188th man on death row. None have been executed.
Franklin, 19, sat listlessly at the defense table where he was shackled and
cuffed as two of his uncles explained how his relatives were divided over
whether he should live or die.
Ivory Franklin II read a poem and a eulogy for his dead parents, Ivory and
Ophelia Franklin, and his brother, Anthony Franklin. All were killed April 18,
1997, at their home at 39 Riegel St. He recalled how his parents tried to care
for Antonio Franklin.
"They wanted what was best for him," Ivory Franklin II said, his voice
breaking. "He, on the other hand, repaid their kindness with cold blood and
vicious brutality."
Julius L. Franklin, speaking for members who sought a life sentence, told Judge
James J. Gilvary, "to take his life may add to already insurmountable losses
... The family is divided at this time. Sanchez's fate rests in your hands."
Defense attorneys Lawrence Henke III and John Cumming begged for mercy on
behalf of their client who declined to speak at the sentencing. Henke said
Antonio Franklin had offered little in the way of help in preparing his
defense.
Judge Gilvary explained that none of the evidence Henke and Cumming presented
during the trial or at a special hearing after the trial was enough to overcome
the circumstances of the killings.
Henke and Cumming contended that Franklin was 18 at the time of the killings
and his youth was a factor to be considered in waiving the death penalty
recommendation a jury handed down Tuesday morning.
"He was old enough to work at the post office, to drive to Tennessee and to
have a relationship for two years with a young lady," Gilvary said in his
decision.
Gilvary also ordered a consecutive sentence totaling 91 years for nine other
felonies, including seven aggravated arson counts and two counts of aggravated
robbery that did not carry the death penalty.
David Franceschelli, assistant county prosecutor, said the case sent this
message:
"When someone brutally executes multiple persons, they shouldn't expect less
than the death penalty."
Dayton homicide Detective Doyle Burke said, "In reality, Judge Gilvary and the
jury showed great strength in imposing the death penalty and it's appropriate.
But Antonio Sanchez Franklin brought this on himself on April 18, 1997, when he
imposed his own death penalty on three family members who were caring for him."
Alan Munro
wrote:
> Only 90 minutes left until I must and will leave on my monthly trip, and
>since I want to squeeze in at least 3 more posts, my commentaries will have to
>be shorter than usual.
Is it my imagination or are the months getting shorter.
Sigh, it seems like only yesterday you posted us on the
inevitable monthly deprivation. Hmm. Sort of a reverse
menses?
Joe1orbit
>wrote:
>> Only 90 minutes left until I must and will leave on my monthly trip, and
>>since I want to squeeze in at least 3 more posts, my commentaries will have
>to
>>be shorter than usual.
jam...@telusplanet.net (Alan Munro) Wrote:
>Is it my imagination or are the months getting shorter.
Hello,
Some months have 30 days, some have 31, and one month has 28 or 29 days.
>Sigh, it seems like only yesterday you posted us on the
>inevitable monthly deprivation. Hmm.
I have no control over your inability to judge the passage of time in an
accurate fashion.
>Sort of a reverse
>menses?
I have no interest in how you experience my absences, be it in a positive or
negative fashion.
Yes, I'm back. 900 posts accumulated during my absence, and it's nice to see
that a few of you inferior humans felt compelled to make troll posts directed
at me during my absence. I can always count on you pathetic inferiors to live
up to my worst expectations of you.
Take care, JOE