By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 22:33:19 | Updated at 2024-11-22 02:15:10
1 day ago
Georgia Gov. Kemp, After Life Sentence for Laken Riley Killer, Says Justice 'Was Swift and Severe'
Fox News ^ | November 20, 2024 | Paul Steinhauser
Posted on 11/20/2024 2:18:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
Kemp argued that border policies under President Biden are 'outrageous'
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says justice was served after a judge gave the 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela who was convicted of murdering Laken Riley a life sentence.
"I'm glad that justice was served, and it was swift and severe," the governor said in a Fox News Digital interview on Wednesday soon after a judge in Athens County, Georgia, convicted and then sentenced Jose Antonio Ibarra, a migrant who had entered the U.S. illegally.
Kemp said the conviction and sentencing were "no surprise" and emphasized that Riley's murder was "a really tragic set of circumstances. Tragic for that family and I've certainly had them in my thoughts and prayers. I know that people in Georgia and around the country have."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: brianemp; georgia; lakenriley
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-29 next last
1 posted on 11/20/2024 2:18:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Justice would have been this murderer never getting into the country. And he didn’t get the death penalty so I wouldn’t call this “severe” either.
2 posted on 11/20/2024 2:19:31 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Wait, he was just convicted. He was sentenced already?
3 posted on 11/20/2024 2:20:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
The Manson family got “life” sentences too, but look what happened to that.
4 posted on 11/20/2024 2:21:21 PM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
To: nickcarraway
5 posted on 11/20/2024 2:22:44 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: nickcarraway
Biden and Harris sharing his cell would be justice. All of them in old sparky would be real justice.
6 posted on 11/20/2024 2:23:13 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
You took the words right out of my mouth.
7 posted on 11/20/2024 2:23:27 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
To: nickcarraway
I wonder if this dirtball can be brought up on federal charges. Federal courts allow the death penalty if I’m not mistaken.
8 posted on 11/20/2024 2:24:07 PM PST by mbrfl
To: nickcarraway
9 posted on 11/20/2024 2:24:11 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: nickcarraway
Yeah, no consolation.
The whole thing was unnecessary.
To: nickcarraway
So 3 hots and a cot for the rest of his life. Hmmm, maybe he will have an unfortunate and tragic accident.
11 posted on 11/20/2024 2:24:23 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
To: nickcarraway
Georgia has the death penalty. Why aren’t they needling this waste of oxygen?
12 posted on 11/20/2024 2:25:31 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: nickcarraway
Apparently the GA prosecutor had taken the death penalty off the table at the start of the trial. She’s no longer in office but the prosecutorial decision still stands.
13 posted on 11/20/2024 2:25:55 PM PST by mbrfl
To: nickcarraway
Does a life sentence in Georgia really mean life?
14 posted on 11/20/2024 2:26:34 PM PST by Bearshouse (Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
To: nickcarraway
Severe ≠ Just
He should be dead. His body on display at the border as a warning to others of his ilk thinking of entering the United States to cause destruction.
Maybe with the new sheriff coming to town...
15 posted on 11/20/2024 2:26:48 PM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
To: nickcarraway
Letting that bas**** live is not justice.
To: nickcarraway
Yep. Today. Bench trial. No jury.
17 posted on 11/20/2024 2:28:28 PM PST by vivenne
To: Bearshouse
I think he’s got like 10 life sentences.
18 posted on 11/20/2024 2:29:24 PM PST by vivenne
To: fwdude
The Manson family was sentenced to death.
19 posted on 11/20/2024 2:29:47 PM PST by Yogafist
To: mbrfl
Well, he broke Federal law by coming here.
20 posted on 11/20/2024 2:30:02 PM PST by vivenne
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-29 next last
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
