Roeder confesses to shooting abortion doctor

[tonysam]

Source: Wichita Eagle

WICHITA, Kan. - Scott Roeder has confessed to the shooting of a Kansas abortion provider.

The 51-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man told The Associated Press in a telephone call from jail Monday that he plans to use the so-called necessity defense at his trial.

Roeder contends the killing of Dr. George Tiller in May at a Wichita church was justified to protect the lives of unborn children.

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/news/featured/story/1047671.html

[onehandle]

He's toast. nt

[slackmaster]

1. He's a terrorist

His intent is clearly to intimidate medical professionals out of providing late-term abortion services.

[denverbill]

5. +1

[tonysam]

6. People need to take these killers seriously

They aren't "political prisoners," they are terrorists.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Ok, sentence him to life in prison without parole...

with murderers and rapists in gen pop.

Necessity defense?

When is it ever necessary to kill another human being?

And no, since abortion is the law of the land, that "necessity" defense is blown to bits.

He'll lose, and serve the maximum.

Hawkeye-X

[tonysam]

3. Exactly. He should go where Eric Rudolph is

at Florence ADX.

[Hawkeye-X]

4. Yep. And served nothing but rat and cockroaches.

Feed him nothing.

[Bossy Monkey]

7. The "He needed killin'" defense didn't even work in old westerns. Idiot. n/t

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

8. cut off his hands

out of necessity. In case he ever manages to get out of jail after murdering in Cold Blood.

We won't have to worry about him using a gun again then, unless he uses his feet to blow off his empty head.

[rfranklin]

9. It ain't gonna fly...

What a delusional dipshit.

[Blue_Tires]

10. well, the prosecution's case just got that much earier

[Tumbulu]

11. Please stop calling him an abortion doctor. He was a doctor who performed abortions

among other things. Please do not imitate the wrong wingnuts use of language that incites with inaccuracy.

[tonysam]

12. DU rules state "exact title" for LBN

It's not my fault Tiller is referred to as this by the person who wrote the headline.

Take it up with the Wichita paper.

[AnnieBW]

13. In Kansas?

Hell, he'll probably walk scott-free. They'll even give him the keys to the city of Wichita. :mad:

[martymar64]

14. But since Roeder is not a muslim, not many people here care.

Sad but true.

[paulsby]

16. plenty of people care here

and this shooting generated TONS of DU posts... when it happened.

[rug]

15. The only waty the insanity defense would work is if the assertsion that the shooting was justified

is deemed insane.

[47of74]

17. This loser should spend the rest of his life in jail