Is this a HATE crime?

Sometimes the media HONESTLY kills me. They ask really ridiculous questions that the evidence is basically slapping them in the face with. Like hello, your answer is quite obvious!?!

Evidence # 1:

Please refer to the link below. Then in YOUR opinion tell me if you really even need to question was it a hate crime or not. The suspect CLAIMS that he (Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado pictured at left ) tried to kill him. But decapitating someone, and partially burning the body...Speaks for itself that ish is wayyy past self defense. Come people lets use our brains.

Full story can be found here:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/18/puerto.rico.gay.teen.slain/index.html

Update

The body found was that of Shaniya Davis. Breaks my heart and I hope that little girl is resting in peace. How could you do anything harmful to a five year old? The dad crying hurt me even more, I can't believe she's gone and I don't even personally know her. It's just so cruel to take a life of someone who can't protect themselves.

This DISGUSTS me!

Look at this beautiful child. She's five and I'm sure just like any other five year old she was probably starting kindergarden and was enjoying her beautiful young life. She's beautiful honestly and she's definitely an innocent CHILD. Now not to just focus on her beauty because all children are young and innocent at that age but I mean seriously look at her:

Her name is Shaniya Davis. She's missing in North Carolina.

This is what her so called " mother" looks like:

Now lets get a few things straight here bloggers just so we're clear:

1. Just because you have a child doesn't make you a mother, or father or in this case a fit parent

2. Not everyone should have the blessing of being able to have kids, ( and this is just my opinion)

3. The following article from CNN.com ( which is my home page) really pissed me and hurt me

(CNN) -- About 200 people were searching Monday in North Carolina for the body of a missing 5-year-old girl after "reliable information" indicated that she may be dead, Fayetteville, North Carolina, police said.

The search focused on land near a roadway because "reliable information received that the body of Shaniya Davis may have been dumped there," the Fayetteville Police Department said in a statement.

Investigators have been searching for Shaniya for several days.

Police charged the girl's mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, with trafficking and other offenses, authorities said. Davis was "prostituting her child," said Fayetteville police spokeswoman Theresa Chance.

Other charges against the mother include felony child abuse, prostitution and filing a false police report, according to the Fayetteville Police Department.

The mother told police last week that the child vanished from their mobile home in Fayetteville.

Hotel surveillance video taken around the same time Shaniya was reported missing shows the girl with a man identified as Mario Andrette McNeill. He has been charged with first-degree kidnapping.

Police said they dropped kidnapping charges against another man, Clarence Coe, who was arrested Thursday in connection with the case.

I have a weak spot for children, I'm the Oldest of 8 and have been around kids ever since I could remember. I have this thing in my heart where I just want to save every single kid from monsters like this person. How do you prostitute a 5 year old! They can't even comprehend SEX, this disgusts me, not only do they not understand the act of sex but how does a grown ass man have SEX with someone who could be their child, their neice, they're LITTLE SISTER. What the hell is this world coming to. She deserves life in prison because this child did NOTHING and I repeat NOTHING to deserve this. I pray they find her alive, I really do.

This is NOT justice

Stories like this hurt me to the core. I know I don't know the whole situation nor the story but LIFE without parole, at the age of 16? Excuse my french, but this is BULL SHIT and something needs to be done.

She's now 29 by the way, seriously she doesn't deserve to die in that prison!

Capital Punshiment

As I sit here and listen to Say it ain't so - MoZella I can't help but to think of the hundreds, even thousands of people whose lives have been taken by Capital Punishment. If you listen to this song it doesn't have anything to do with Capital Punishment of course, it's just what I'm listening as I post this. I was on facebook earlier because I'm currently not in school this semester and well that's what my day consists of before work and my godfather posted a simple question asking if John Allen Mohammad got what he deserved. The question wasn't up for very long, 30 minutes I believe and I wrote this small response saying that he didn't, we're not god and we have no right to say who deserves to live and who deserves to die. In response to this post also I decided to change my status and asked the facebook world, ( well those who are my friends ) if they too disagreed with Capital Punishment, this is where I would meet my new best friend Olivia Cole ( follow her she also has a blog http://rantingowl.blogspot.com/) :D. She also agreed with me and pretty much took the words right out of my mouth. We spoke about how capital punishment is hypocrisy, we as a society condemn those who kill people but then turn right around and kill them= how could this not be hypocrisy? Honestly, who are you to say well he killed someone so he deserves to die, that's not under any circumstance true. Now I'm aware that people could say, " well you don't know how it feels to have someone taken from you by murder" and with all do respect you're right I don't, but I believe in karma as well as GOD and I know that in the end everyone will have to take responsibility for what they did. I believe that the best punishment for those who have taken another life is to give them a life sentence, simply because and as Olivia pointed out there is usually something mentally wrong with people who can take another persons life and they usually don't care if they die, so in a way you're giving them exactly what they asked for. Instead, locking them up for a lifetime they have to sit and think about what they did to get them there and that is definitely JUSTICE in my opinion. It's interesting this conversation even took place because just yesterday at work me and my manager were talking about this government and the corrupt things that take place. I also just caught a glimpse of a article that she posted about Gay Right and that's another subject that I could on about ALL DAY. But i'll save it for another time bloggers. I hope I made a small difference in your opinion about Capital Punishment, because honestly we as human beings do have an instinct for revenge and we have to set self aside and let karma take it's course.