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TeenRepublican · #1 (**permalink**) 08-18-2004, 01:20 PM

Here's a story from where I live about why we SHOULD use the death penalty on walking garbage like this Sean Everett Scott cop-killer.

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Keshon Everett to spend rest of life in prison
Man who killed Albany Police Lt. John Finn sentenced in Albany County Court today to life plus 15 years

By MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON, Staff writer
Last updated: 1:25 p.m., Wednesday, August 18, 2004

ALBANY -- Admitted cop killer Keshon Everett was belligerent to the end today as he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 15 years in the shooting death of Police Lt. John Finn.

Everett, 27, smirked as he swaggered off the third-floor inmates' elevator to Albany County Judge Thomas A. Breslin's courtroom under heavy guard.

He snapped out an abrupt "nope,'' when the judge asked if he had anything to say.

Police officers in the courtroom cried into their hands as William Finn struggled to describe the anguish and constant unreality of losing his brother and best friend.

"I had a dream I was sitting in a small boat on a lake fishing, and my brother John was with me,'' Finn said. "We were in our 70s, and laughing and reminiscing about family get-togethers and how things had changed. Then he looked me right in the eye and said, 'Do you remember Keshon Everett?' And as he did, his face started to fade away. And I was suddenly an old man, alone on a lake. And then I woke up.''

Everett shot Finn, a respected city police officer and father of two young girls, on Dec. 23 as he was chasing a robbery suspect through the South End. Finn was able to return fire, wounding Everett.

Everett's guilty plea to first-degree murder was facilitated by a June 24 Court of Appeals ruling rendering the death penalty as it now stands as unconstitutional.

Finn, a 12-year veteran, clung to life for 51 days in Albany Medical Center Hospital.

He died Feb. 12 with his family at his side. He was 38.

In an unusual break from tradition, Everett was shipped directly from his sentencing to the downstate correctional facility in Fishkill for processing, Albany County Sheriff Jim Campbell said.

Everett's continued bad behavior had relegated him to special housing in the county jail but he still managed to bite a correctional officer last week, Campbell said.

It just amazes me how some drug-dealer gangster can kill a cop with a family and get only life in prison. He should be getting the death penalty. Some of you may be saying how bad prison is for a life-time but no, prison is not that bad. New York state pays $30,000 a year on prisoners (I know, my father's a former NYS correction officer) and now we have to keep this crap in prison for the rest of his life. Any person who kills a police officer should get automatic death penalty because they just killed someone that puts on a uniform to protect the public everyday. I hope this guy gets his ass kicked in prison by some correction officers or the other garbage prisoners.