Second Arrest in Taxi Driver Shooting

The 19-year-old woman arrested for allegedly shooting a taxi cab driver in the face last week has pleaded not guilty to charging including attempted murder and attempted robbery. April Pierce, being held on $150,000 bail, claims her two other companions shot Enois Malbranche; one of them, Erica Belgrave, surrendered to police on Monday while the cops are still looking for the third suspect. Malbranche, who told the NY Times that the women robbed him before shooting him in Brooklyn, is reportedly blind in his right eye and will need glasses to correct his left eye. The Daily News says it's "a disability that will likely end his 10-year career as a cab driver."

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They shot someone in the face over cab fare.
This is why they invented the death penalty and this is the same reason they put down violent dogs.
These girls are violent animals that should be put down.

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a cage for life is the only option for these people.
let them rot!

If you put them to death, they won't learn anything. The key is the make them admit that they were wrong to commit the act in the first place, then punish them some more.

Throw them in solitary for life, and have the guards beat them regularly.

This is the reason the Moon needs to be colonized; it would be the perfect option for people like these criminals. Why waste them in prison when you can send them to the Moon to excavate and build. Plus, the life expectancy for people who don't think clearly wouldn't be so high which would weed out the morons.

Why waste perfectly valuable lunar real-estate when we can just dump them in middle of the Pacific. Eventually these people will form a sort of human 'reef' and in their death it will encourage endangered forms of ocean life to survive.

We cant risk polluting our precious oceans with their filth. We must use them as bio fuel for our cars and planes so we can break our dependence on foreign oil. We have such a large prison population that we will no longer have any need for Saudi Oil.

That's it, take their eyes out, the obnoxious bitches!

Ok ok so it's settled. We will take out their eyes while they are alive (with serving ware) and then when they have suffered long enough they will be executed and their 'fleshy' remains will be made into fuel, while their bones will be crushed into fragments and used to build a second barrier reef.

Next case!

Nice fantasizing guys. More likely they'll get 10-15 years and because of their age, they'll get a good street education in there getting them ready for a lifetime of crime.

If only the judicial system in this country would read this blog, it would do wonders for the populace. Let the penalty fit the crime. How true.

Gothamist should start their own party and elect those that know how to deal with day to day problems. Not that wimpy stuff the mainstream tries to shove off on us.

such a punk crime. they won't get much sleep on the island, guarantee you. ah, somebody doing a honorable dime will have smokes and a piece of ass. the system does kinda work, if you think about it.

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