The American Justice system

Alan · May 9, 2011

And the Liberal Media have made this asshole into a hero. Another case of the victim being forgotten. This "Reformed" person MURDERED a woman by shooting and stabbing her. Gets released after 40 yrs on a "technicality", writes a book and wins awards.:Mad: I'm sure all of the money went to the victim's survivors.:head_on_wall: If they would have just executed him like they planned, we wouldn't have this problem.

From NPR (who just so happens to be ecstatic about all this):

Freed Prisoner Picks Up Journalism Award
by NPR Staff, National Public Radio
May 9, 2011

Wilbert Rideau received the death penalty for murder in 1961, but his sentence was later amended to life imprisonment. While at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, he won the George Polk Award for his investigative reporting on sexual violence in prisons. Rideau recently accepted the award in person after 44 years in prison. In this additional "Behind Closed Doors," host Michel Martin speaks with Rideau about prison conditions, his journalism and freedom. Language in this conversation may be difficult for some listeners.
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Here's what happened as quoted from 1961.

http://www.thenation.com/section/Wilbert-Rideau

His crime has been hard for the town to forget. According to the original prosecutor, Frank Salter, on February 16, 1961, Wilbert Rideau, then 19, knocked on the door of the Gulf National Bank at closing time. Bank manager Jay Hickman unlocked the door. He knew Rideau as the errand runner at Halperin's, the sewing shop next door, who would fetch sodas for bank employees, until the relationship became too friendly for the whites. "We stopped [asking him for sodas] because he started talking," said victim Dora McCain in her trial testimony, "calling us by our first names. So we just--we just got a refrigerator for the bank." That day, Rideau produced a gun and demanded that Hickman empty the money drawer. Rideau put $14,000 in a gray suitcase (leaving $30,000 on the floor and in coffers) and forced Hickman and two women bank tellers into a car. They drove to a country road in a wooded area, where Rideau lined up his three hostages and began firing. One bullet landed in Jay Hickman's arm. Hickman rolled off into a bayou out of sight. The two women fell to the ground with gunshot wounds. Julia Ferguson, 49, cried out, "Think of my poor old daddy," who lived with her. "Don't worry, it will be quick and cool," Rideau allegedly said before slitting her throat and stabbing her in the heart. Ferguson died at the scene. Rideau approached the other teller, Dora McCain, a pretty twentysomething with a well-known family, who lay face down. He kicked her in the side three times to see if she was dead. When she didn't cry out, Rideau took the car and left. Two state troopers stopped Rideau in his car as he was leaving town. They found the suitcase with the money in the back seat. (Rideau's counsel declined to comment on the facts before trial.)
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