Tenn. Parolee Charged in Triple Homicide

[ridgerunner]

By BILL POOVEY
Associated Press Writer

May 18, 2005, 3:25 PM EDT

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Tony Pope went to prison for bludgeoning his girlfriend to death with an iron skillet and was back out on the streets five years later despite a warning from a friend of the victim.

"It not only scares me to think that someone like this can go free, but it puzzles me as to why you'd release him to possibly do it again," Vicki McCurry wrote to Tennessee's parole board before a 2001 hearing.

The board did not listen. On a 4-0 vote, it released Pope after he had served one-third of his 15-year sentence.

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Earlier this month, Pope was charged with killing his wife with a hammer; strangling his 13-year-old stepdaughter; and fatally dropping and punching his 5-week-old son. Investigators said Pope told them his wife was leaving him and taking the children.

more:http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-paroled-killer,0,2996803.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headline

[jayfish]

1. Who Cares?

We need to make sure all of the drug users and three-strikers are locked up. Do we really have the space to house these petty, violent, offenders.

On a non-sarcastic note, I'd like to drop and punch this guys fing head.


Jay

[ridgerunner]

2. yeah ain't it amazing

that a person can murder someone and serve five years, but a person can cheat on a drivers test and get life?

[MountainLaurel]

5. Unfortunately, it's typical

For domestic violence cases -- if there's a conviction at all. The legal system still carries remnants of a time when women and children were the property of the man, to be treated and disposed of at his will.

[msanthrope]

3. He would have gotten a longer sentence for selling pot. n/t

[bemildred]

4. Yep, people that spread euphoria around have to be stopped. nt

[orwell]

6. But Wait...

..this is "family values" Tennessee - the home of the glorious Fristian proletariat.

(I'll bet that felon-releasing Dukakis was involved.)

At least its nice to see that women have finally achieved true equality and that patriarchy is dead...not like those "savage" Muslim countries.

Now where's my medication...