Dannie Roy Baker, who shot a group of Chilean students in Florida, killing two, was indicted Wednesday on multiple charges.
Wednesday the Walton County Grand Jury returned an indictment against Dannie Roy Baker before Circuit Judge Kelvin Wells for two counts of First Degree Premeditated Murder with a Firearm; three counts Attempted First Degree Premeditated Murder with a Firearm and one count Shooting at, into or within a Building. Count one of the Indictment was for the death of Racine Libia Balbontin Argandona, count two was for the death of Nicholas Pablo Corp Torres. The other three counts were also for Chilean nationals shot in their apartment.
Baker could face the death penalty if convicted.
While there is no doubt in my mind that Baker should be tried and that this killing was a hate crime driven in part by anti-immigrant forces that have spilled into the U.S. psyche. Pero seeking the death penalty, in my opinion, is taking the one bad apple approach, treating hate crimes as aberrations instead of as something that is built into the history of the U.S.
Source: Immigration Talk With a Mexican American
3 comments:
"Pero seeking the death penalty..."
LOL! long life to spanglish
I'm curious to know the extent of editorial disagreement amongst the contributors to this blog, since Erwin sees it as a source to aggregate LatAm news whereas Maegan insists upon editorializing most everything.
Why I've even gotten the inkling that she thinks Puerto Rico should be a separate country!
Maegan and I have distinct writing styles on this blog and at times we do not concur with the same viewpoints.
Yet as the header to this blog says, this is a "forum" on issues related to Latin America. Our goal is the same: for readers to learn more about the region and to stimulate thought and analysis.
Along with the other contributors, Maegan and I allow our writing to speak for itself. As long as readers like yourself become more informed then whatever "editorial disagreement" we may have is of miniscule importance.
(By the way, we both believe strongly in Puerto Rican self-determination. I don't believe we concur on the end result, but that's okay).
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