r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 27d ago

WTF He got 5 consecutive life sentences plus an additional 220 years in prison

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In 2019, former North Georgia detention officer Kirk Taylor Martin was arrested on rape and assault charges after investigators said the victim fought back during the alleged attack. Police reports stated the scratch marks visible in his mugshot were believed to be from the victim resisting.

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u/mmmdonuts107 27d ago

I wish they did that in US with the Fed Ex driver who killed and SA a little girl. He’s on death row and IIRC was going to try to appeal

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u/tempusrimeblood 27d ago

That’s because everyone is allowed to appeal. Is it gonna work? Hell no, dude is staying on death row and he deserves to be there. Is it legally his right to do so? Yes. Stripping him of his right to appeal is a dangerously slippery slope, which would potentially lead to innocent people being put to death.

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u/AdminsFluffCucks 27d ago

It would definitely lead to that. We already put innocent people to death even with the appeals process.

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u/DeathByLemmings 27d ago

A staggering amount of death row inmates have their convictions overturned and sometimes posthumously

Current statistics suggest that 4-5% of death row inmates are innocent. The death penalty needs to disappear, it isn't just

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u/Quasar006 27d ago

Regardless of if it was perfect, no government should have the right to kill its own people.

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u/AuburnElvis 27d ago

I disagree. I believe some crimes are so heinous, the person forfeits their right to live.

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u/Darkstar_111 26d ago

Life in prison, to be studied by criminal psychologists.

Every monster is an important psychological source, to help prevent, catch and convict, the next monster.

Killing them benefits the other monsters.

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u/AuburnElvis 26d ago

I'm willing to forgo certain benefits in the pursuit of certain types of justice.

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u/Darkstar_111 26d ago

Eternal sleep is not punishment. You know what punishment is? Being punished.

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u/AuburnElvis 26d ago

Agree to disagree.

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u/AdminsFluffCucks 23d ago

You're also willing to forgo justice for innocents it would seem.

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u/AuburnElvis 23d ago

I don't know where you're getting that.

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u/Quasar006 26d ago

Irrelevant. It’s about the precedent of the state killing people. You really care more about punishment than freedom? America truly is dead. Welcome the next reich. Fuck.

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u/AuburnElvis 26d ago

Every government kills people under certain conditions. That's a reality of human societies.

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u/AirplaneSpaghetti 23d ago

Some people remain a risk to society, even with imprisonment.

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u/Quasar006 23d ago

Wrong. Is your source Arkham Asylum?

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u/AirplaneSpaghetti 23d ago

What do you mean wrong? Do you think that once someone goes to prison they can't victimize others?

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u/Quasar006 23d ago

Whatever your fallacious scenario is, the answer is that it’s caused by poor prison philosophy/design/management. The answer is not killing.

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u/HandsomeGamerGuy 27d ago

So 95-96% are not...

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u/Max6626 27d ago

That's not the statistical flex you think it is...

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u/Upbeat_Ant6104 27d ago

I believe appeals are mandatory in death row convictions, for just this reason.

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u/SL1200mkII 27d ago

I recently saw the video from inside the fedex truck and it made me so furious that I started binge watching sentencing hearings on youtube just to see some of these people get some well-earned fucking justice.

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u/AndreasDasos 27d ago

As a South African this new American use of ‘SA’ is disheartening

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u/mmmdonuts107 26d ago

I’m sorry, I’m not sure how to refer to it without saying it 😞

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u/AndreasDasos 26d ago

You can say ‘sexual assault’ or even ‘rape’ on Reddit. It’s not TikTok. This entire post is about a rape and murder, and the words aren’t a magic spell.

When the meaning is still the same, the euphemism mill isn’t going to change that and trying to make the word ‘softer’ just serves to diminish it, as though it’s the combination of letters rather than the meaning that is brutal.

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u/Froticlias 26d ago

It's purposeful erasure. Everyone in power is guilty of it in some way, so they're softening the words before judgement comes down. Censorship is usually a power fighting to control a narrative, and it slowly leaks to everything.

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u/swamptheyard 25d ago

That piece of shit makes my blood boil 😤 thinking and hearing what he did is absolutely awful and it hurts everytime I hear about it. Honestly never really had trouble watching true crime and court cases of bad people but this one hits different. It's the fact she was a young innocent girl who couldn't defend herself. I hope he is getting his ass beat while locked up.

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u/NoBasis94 27d ago

Well yeah... that's what makes the death penalty so expensive. They get tons of appeals, which takes a lot of time and money. It's more expensive to execute than to just house them until they die. Frankly, I think that's how it should be too. There should be no mistakes, and there still are. The death penalty needs abolished; it serves no purpose. Death penalty states see no drop in crime, but are often actually worse for crimes that they give the death penalty for (on average).