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BOISE, Idaho -- A man who kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered a 9-year-old Idaho boy was deemed eligible for the death penalty by a jury on Friday, soon after the killer himself came close to thanking prosecutors for showing the panel sickening videos of him abusing the child.

The jury deliberated for two hours before issuing its unanimous ruling. When the hearing resumes next week, jurors must decide whether Joseph Edward Duncan III should be put to death for killing Dylan Groene in 2005.

Friday's verdict was not surprising after Duncan's closing argument, in which he told the jurors they didn't yet "have a clue" about the depths of his "heinousness."

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"I got out and I got even. But I did not get caught. So I got even again, and again did not get caught. I got even twice (actually more The world will know who I really was, and what I really did. I am scared, alone, and confused, and my reaction is to strike out toward the perceived source of my misery, society. My intent is to harm society as much as I can, then die."

Joseph Duncan's blog
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/joseph_dun
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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

If I was on that jury, I'd do my best to make sure this criminal got life in prison without the possibility of parole.

I can't imagine a more horrifying fate, nor one that is more likely to make him understand the plight of his victim.

May he live a long life, costing us less money than if we put him on death row.

--Anthony

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Duncan pleaded guilty to 10 federal felonies for the trauma he inflicted on Dylan Groene and his then-8-year-old sister, Shasta, in May 2005 after murdering their older brother, their mother and her fiance in the Coeur d'Alene area. Duncan pleaded guilty to those three murders in state court, where he also could be sentenced to death.

He kidnapped the two young children and took them deep into the Lolo National Forest, where he sexually abused and tortured them for weeks. He ultimately shot the boy point-blank in the head while his sister watched. He was arrested after returning with Shasta to Coeur d'Alene, where a waitress recognized the girl as the two ate at a Denny's restaurant.

Jurors cringed and cried when they viewed videos Duncan made in which he molested, tortured and hanged Dylan Groene until the boy was unconscious and nearly dead. Duncan told the panel that government lawyers helped him victimize the jurors by making them watch and listen to the evidence.

"I should actually thank the government for helping me get my eye for an eye by showing you the evidence that you've seen, the videos," Duncan said during his closing argument Friday.

Duncan, a convicted pedophile originally from Tacoma, Wash., told jurors that by presenting the evidence, the government was "helping me to take away your heart and your innocence."

"That's what they have done, and I should thank them but I won't," he said.

Duncan, originally from Tacoma, Wash., was a convicted pedophile before the killings. The rampage was the culmination of years of planning, he said, and he originally intended to rape and kill until he was killed.

Duncan has a long string of arrests and convictions for crimes ranging from car theft to rape and molestation. He is suspected in the slayings of two half-sisters from Seattle in 1996 and is charged with killing a young boy in Riverside County, Calif.

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The Murder of Dylan Groene

When Duncan returned to camp, he made Shasta watch the videotape. Four days later, Shasta heard a gunshot and turned to see Dylan holding his stomach where he had been shot. Duncan then held the gun next to Dylan's head and pulled the trigger, but the gun failed to fire. He reloaded and fired again.

Shasta was so close that blood spattered on her clothing.

"The way this little girl describes it is: her brother's head exploded," Moss said. Duncan then "wrapped the body in a tarp, threw it on the campfire and let it burn for several days, until it was reduced to ashes," Moss said.

http://crime.about.com/b/2008/08/14/duncan-jury-hears-details-of-famil
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"The devil is here, boy, the devil himself. The demon couldn't do what the devil sent him to do so the devil came himself. The devil likes to watch children suffer and cry."

Joseph Duncan videotape
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/21/duncan.slayings.ap/index.html?iref
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Originally posted by Riverlove:
All rapists should be put to death. A nice clean thrust with a Roman short sword would be ideal; giving the rapist just a few short moments to contemplate his depravity and his violation of a human being before he's no longer a threat to anyone.

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Originally posted by Riverlove:
All rapists should be put to death. A nice clean thrust with a Roman short sword would be ideal; giving the rapist just a few short moments to contemplate his depravity and his violation of a human being before he's no longer a threat to anyone.

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Only a few months ago, ex-convict Joseph Edward Duncan III warned that his "demons" were overtaking him. "These demons are stronger than even I gave them credit for," Duncan, 42, stated in April in an online diary on what police said is his own Web site. "I'm afraid, very afraid. If they win, then a lot of people will be badly hurt, and they've had their way before, so I know what they can do," said Duncan, who had a previous molestation conviction.

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A child cries "I hurt!", unheeded, this cry becomes a prophecy, a warning, and over time, a battlecry - as those victimized by our society spend the rest of their lives getting even.

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The maltreated child cries, 'I hurt.' Unheard or unheeded, that cry becomes prophecy.

'Do unto others' becomes a battle cry.

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"While in medical school, Senator Frist was involved in a lab project which entailed dissecting feline remains. In a 1989 autobiography, Frist described how he "spent days and nights on end in the lab, taking the hearts out of cats, dissecting each heart." After some time, Frist said "[he] lost [his] supply of cats." The project, which needed to be completed as part of the medical school curriculum, could not be finished without another supply of cats. Frist several times obtained cats from animal shelters, falsely suggesting that he wanted to adopt them as pets. In his autobiography, Frist attributed his behavior, which he described as "heinous and dishonest", to the pressures of school."
-Wikipedia, Bill Frist, Main article: Bill Frist medical school experiments controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Frist_medical_school_experiments_con
troversy

"It costs only $100,000 to kill 2-million Americans."
—Senator Dr. Bill Frist, MD, MSNBC "Hardball" with Chris Mathews

Dr Bill Frist MD pays $840-MILLION in criminal fines for Medicare fraud, then geot promoted to Speaker of the US Senate in his freshman term:
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/piratenewsrss/message/454

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