Another Travesty of Justice: Carr Brothers Given Leniency

carr+brothersIn December of 2000, within the span of less than a week, two brothers, Reginald and Jonathan Carr, engaged in a series of crimes in Wichita that Kansans recognize as among the worst in their state’s history.

First, they abducted and robbed assistant baseball coach Andrew Schreiber. Three days later, the Carrs set their sights upon 55 year-old librarian and cellist, Ann Walenta: they shot and killed Walenta as she attempted to flee them in her automobile.

But it wasn’t until three days after this murder that the Carrs’ campaign of evil reached its horrifying climax.

On the night of December 14, the Carrs broke into the residence of Brad Heyka, Aaron Sander, and Jason Befort. Heyka was a financial analyst, Sander a seminary student preparing for the priesthood, and Befort a high school science teacher and coach. Also in the home that evening were Heather Muller, Sander’s former girlfriend and a graduate student who also happened to work as a pre-school teacher at a local church, and a young woman named “H.G.”—a school teacher to whom Befort was about to propose and who would be the sole survivor of the grisly events that were about to unfold over the next few hours.

Armed with guns, the Carrs made their victims perform sexual acts on one another. The women were forced to penetrate each other’s vaginas orally and digitally, and the men were forced to have sex with the women. Yet when the Carrs discovered that Befort and “H.G.” were romantically involved, they prevented them from having sexual intercourse with one another, choosing instead to force Befort watch as they coerced his friends to essentially rape his fiancée to be.

At one point, when Aaron Sander couldn’t get an erection, the Carrs put a gun to his head and threatened to shoot him lest his momentary dysfunction resolve itself within the two minute time frame that they allotted him. When the time expired, the Carrs returned Sander to the closet in which they corralled their prey with “H.G.” and retrieved Befort and Heyka, both of whom were then forced to sexually assault Heather Muller, whose pain-racked groans, “H.G.” later testified, were all too audible from the next room.

The sexual degradation that the Carrs inflicted upon their victims was punctured by episodic beatings that the Carrs gave the men—beatings that appear to have involved the use of golf clubs. It was also interrupted by drives to ATM machines where the Carrs had their victims withdraw funds.

Yet the Carr brothers themselves also repeatedly raped, vaginally and orally, the two women.

About three hours into this nightmare, the Carrs drove their victims to a snow-covered field. The men were stuffed into the trunk of Sander’s Honda Accord that Jonathan Carr drove while Reginald drove Befort’s truck. Being less than 20 degrees, the air was frigid—and yet their captors permitted Befort, Heyka, and Sander to wear not a single article of clothing, while permitting Muller and “H.G.” to wear only a sweater.

Once they arrived at their destination, the Carrs commanded their prey to kneel in the snow and ice. As the five begged for their lives, their tormentors shot them each in the backs of their heads. Then, they drove over their bodies with Befort’s truck.

Miraculously, courtesy of a metal hairclip, “H.G.” survived. She didn’t even lose consciousness. Instead, she tried to help her boyfriend, from whom “blood was squirting everywhere”—including from his eyes—by wrapping around his head her sweater, the only article of clothing, mind you, that she was wearing.

Naked, she walked over a mile in the freezing cold to a stranger’s home in search of help for herself and her friends—for whom, sadly, it was already too late.

Meanwhile, the Carrs would return to their victims’ home to pillage it. While there, they encountered Nikki, the dog that belonged to “H.G.” The Carrs pummeled the poor animal with a golf club before driving an ice pick through it.

The Carrs were arrested and went to trial. “H.G.” took the stand, explaining that she constantly awakes in “cold sweats” from her “nightmares,” that “every morning” she must “carefully blow-dry” her hair to “cover up the spot that,” as result of being shot, “can no longer grow hair,” and that she has “the scars” on her knees from the rapes to which these “two soulless monsters” subjected her.

“H.G.” also testified that she has a sexually-transmitted disease courtesy of one of her rapists.

That a jury of their peers convicted the Carrs of capital murder and sentenced them to death suggests that they agreed with “H.G.” that her attackers are “soulless monsters.” Yet on Friday, July 25, by a 6-1 decision, the Kansas Supreme Court, citing procedural problems, maintained the convictions while overturning the Carrs’ death sentences.

According to The Topeka Capital-Journal, Republican members of the GOP-controlled Legislature have complained about the “‘activist’ streak” of the justices while noting that Kansas hasn’t had an execution since 1965. But while an anti-death penalty sentiment may account for this outrage, that racial considerations may be in play is also a possibility not to be overlooked.

The brothers Carr, you see, are black. All of their victims are white.

Can there be any doubt that had the racial roles here been reversed that everything from the coverage of this case—which, nationally speaking, has been virtually zilch—to this latest travesty of justice would be different?

In any event, Reginald and Jonathan Carr are as guilty as sin itself of raw savagery.

There can be no conceivable justification for nominating judges who allow their racial preoccupations and other political predilections to prevail over their duty to rule justly.

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  • objectivefactsmatter

    CRT versus the death penalty. CRT wins too much of the time.

    • American Patriot

      What is CRT?

      • Sharps Rifle

        Critical Race Theory

      • objectivefactsmatter

        It’s how otherwise apparently normal people come to bizarre conclusions about how certain classes of people are always victims somehow, even when they’re the evil actors.

        It might not get you out of a murder conviction every time, but it will almost always get you a huge sentence reduction if the judge buys in to it and or the defense knows how and when to inject it.

        It also can infect juries too.

        It’s a derivative of Marxism. The long and short of it is that if a class is “oppressed” in any sense, that’s ipso facto proof that they will always be oppressed as long as private capital is legal. And class membership allegedly drives and distorts any ability to get justice in the “system” that allows private capital to be used as a tool of oppression. Hence our “capitalistic system” is inherently racist in favor of “whites.”

        They don’t mention the end game though because too many people will cry foul.

  • UCSPanther

    Breaking on a wheel would be a fitting punishment for these two fiends…

    • Race_Dissident

      That would be far too good for them. The fact that these two monsters aren’t publicly roasted on a spit suggests that America itself has lost its moral soul.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    I’m beginning to wonder what exactly is the “agenda” here? What are all these “lenient” judges thinking? And why have they not been removed?

    • BS77

      Procedural errors? Are you freaking serious? Back in the day these two monsters would have been tried and hanged. End of story. Now we live in a wimply liberal wuss bag society….too afraid to protect ourselves.

      • Sheik Yerbouti

        Victims have value.

  • notme123

    how is it allowed that a judge overturn a juries sentence! Uphold the sentence and get rid of the judge, maybe the judge should be arrested for obstruction of justice, which is what he is doing.

    • Edward E

      “Diversity” is a codeword for White genocide.

      Plan for White genocide that “anti-racists” implement:

      1) Flood EVERY & ONLY White countries with MILLIONS of non-Whites

      2) Force integrate these immigrants into White communities. This is done with the aid of Federal Laws

      3) Push interracial relationships night and day in the media & newspaper

      advertisements, in ONLY White countries

      4) Anyone that objects is called the r-word!

      5) Then, inform the Whites of their inevitable brown future

      Anti-Racist is a code for anti-White

      • PATRIOT.WW48

        very well put, THX

  • http://onfollowingchrist.wordpress.com Paul B.

    What were the procedural problems, and what are the chances of reversing this ruling?

    • tagalog

      Generally, appellate courts don’t overturn a jury’s findings. It’s fairly rare. If it’s done, ordinarily the remedy is to remand the case back to the trial court for a new trial to repair the error.

      Juries don’t set the penalty; that’s the function of the judge. This commentary says they did. Maybe that was the error. But juries CAN recommend leniency or harsh punishment.

      • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

        That answers @paul1149:disqus ‘s first question…but now to answer the other half of his question…this came from the Kansas Supreme Court…the state’s highest court. The author notes that Kansas at the time did not have life without parole for these crimes, and that is why the overturning of the death sentences is so relevant all of a sudden.

        • tagalog

          Well, the Kansas Supreme Court would have to have found some palpable error to hang its hat on in the Carr trial if it wanted to repair a hole in Kansas sentencing procedures, though. Otherwise, it would be a political question.

      • objectivefactsmatter

        Capital cases are often different though.

        http://www.capitalpunishmentincontext.org/issues/juryinstruct

  • Hard Little Machine

    I guess we’ve just abandoned civilization then. Ok then, it’s everyone for themselves.

    • PATRIOT.WW48

      YEP, the day of reckoning draws nigh.

  • tagalog

    Had the victims been black, we would have been called upon by every mealy-mouthed leader among us to examine our navels for institutional racism. The howling about white racist attacks on blacks would have been deafening.

    • David Gray

      Agreed! Now the Carr brothers have the rest of their lives to plan an escape a wreak more havoc on whitey! They have nothing to lose, since they have the Kansas a Supreme Court on their side they are execution proof! Pathetic

  • Doc

    Bring back the rope if they don’t have the stomach to use it force off the bench . We need men and women of honor on the bench not a bunch of bleeding heart cry babies . They gave y
    Up the right to live when they killed end the librarian the rest of this nightmare proves there sub human and don’t deserve to be around people at all as if the won’t kill again in prison

  • David Gray

    Justice in Kansas? It doesn’t exist. Now, one can only hope that the Carr brothers meet their fate in prison similar to Jeffrey Dalmer.

    • CapitalistPig

      Wasn’t Dahmer fed a final meal of—knuckle sandwiches?

      • objectivefactsmatter

        Whatever any of these fools get will be too good for them. The ship has already sailed for getting actual justice.

  • PATRIOT.WW48

    What’s a matter Front Page???? Are you afraid of words. Are you afraid of using the most apropo word.???(fitting at the time. to the purpose)

  • PATRIOT.WW48

    So what do you expect from Black-Scum(use whatever WORD comes to mind. These 2 need to experience every horror and pain their victims did. And so do the Judges. So, FRONT PAGE MAG, is that acceptable to your Mealy-Mouthed Candy-A$$ED P.C.LINGO?????

  • donna

    just set them out in woods naked with APB on closed radio giving approximate location and let them be hunted down by interested parties. clearly more humane than how they treated these people. cost effective as well.

  • DrBukk

    In another grotesque case ignored by the press, Channon Christian & Christopher Newsome of Knoxville, TN. were brutally carjacked, raped and murdered by 4 black men. The staggering crime statistics are taboo. We pay over and over for the “shame” of slavery, as if America was the only place that ever had slaves or racism.

  • runsinquicksand

    A lot of these judges have questionable to say the least, skeletons in their closets. Death threats are easily enforced. The fear of them are obvious.

  • Carlos_Perera

    The Carrs’ reign of terror has only just begun: While in prison, they will almost certainly renew their career as racist, sadistic sexual predators, preying on weak or socially isolated white inmates, on whom they will wreak maximum degradation, pain, and humiliation . . . and the prison authorities will do absolutely nothing about it, especially not under the watch of the current federal DOJ.

    • T100C1970

      Sad but 100% true.

  • kasandra

    I certainly agree that these wastes of protoplasm deserved the death penalty but the article points out that Kansas hasn’t had an execution since 1965 (i.e., in nearly half a century). So they were never going to be executed anyway.

  • dgala

    1-each 2.5 pound block of C-4, dual primed with non-electric blasting caps attached to about 50 feet of time fuze. These two are immobilized (not unconscious); the C-4 is violently inserted into their rear orifice, M-60 igniters are fired which in turn light the powder inside the time fuze. Time fuze has a relatively soft plastic exterior that partially melts as the time fuze burns. It would probably be very painful if one carefully wrapped the two 50 foot pieces all around the body. The nice part is – they would know in no uncertain terms there is going to be a pretty good explosion at the end. Sounds horrific, right? But just how horrific was their crime against these people?!? I don’t care about these two or their friends & families feelings. Neither deserves an easy death…..but they do deserve death.

  • http://tinatrent.com/ Tina Trent

    Sexual slurs were used in the commission of multiple murders and rapes; the murderers targeted, humiliated, attacked and mutilated the sexual organs and sexual identities of both women and men victims. But no gender-bias hate crimes charges were filed. Why?

    This is a great case to demonstrate the Kagan doctrine: Elena Kagan set out, at the behest of Bill Clinton and Eric Holder around 1997, to make sure serial rapist-torturer-murderers wouldn’t be “counted” as hate criminals because then most hate criminals would be serial rapists and serial rapist-murderers, and most hate crime victims would be heterosexual females, predominantly white heterosexual females, and quite high percentages of hate criminals would also be minority men — certainly not the desired outcome.

    So Ms. Kagan drafted one of the most inhumane briefs in modern history, suggesting ways to prevent prosecutors from mistakenly seeing the sexual torture and degradation of women and other rape victims as “hate,” as they might understandably do if they made the mistake of, say, following the letter of the law. Specific acts against certain types of people were — well — minimized by Kagan. It takes a really sick mind to mull over this sort of stuff with the cold eye Kagan brought to it — but she was Girl Friday equal to the task.

    Essentially, by the lights of such unofficial-yet-enforced enforcement, not the law itself, there would need to be a much higher level of evidence of “overkill” when the victims were targeted sexually AND because they’re just women (or men – and hetero in either case) — after all, a little rape, torture and murder of certain people is just normal, no point in making a big deal about it. It’s not like pretending that someone used a slur word against you during some fight over your dog crapping on their sidewalk, after all, or scrawling slurs on your own garage door or dorm room carpet, the sorts of things the bring down the entire apparatus of the hate crimes industry. Abe Foxman authored a creepy companion pamphlet to Ms. Kagan’s horrific dehumanization brief, in which the ADL downplayed violence against women and explained that there was no need to prosecute vicious random crimes against such targets as hatred because doing so would “distract” from and “overwhelm” the prosecution of really important hate crimes against really important victims.

    This is what we have sitting on our Supreme Court, running our Justice Department, and running a leading presidential campaign. There is no greater example of hatred of women in Western culture than these founding documents of the modern hate crimes movement. But good luck finding them discussed by any of our brave feminist studies and law professors. That idiot parade works hard to pretend they don’t even exist, when they’re not busy suppressing the work of anyone who dares to mention them.

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      Hate crime charges were not brought because the prosecutors had sought—and had initially received—the death penalty. Whether or not Kansas had hate crime statutes on the books at the time, the fact that the top charges were murder would have rendered that irrelevant in any event. i do not recall a single case where a hate crime was charged with murder, except when the hate crime enhancement was needed for capital punishment eligibility. There is no need to have murder counted as a hate crime, because murder is murder is murder (unless you’re talking about self-defense).

      • http://tinatrent.com/ Tina Trent

        Nope — you can do hate crime charges and the death penalty.

        Hate crime charges are largely a function of recording the statistics, so they can be exploited for political ends.

        Nonetheless, there is “hate” murder and non-hate murder.

        • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

          Except that there is no Class A+ felony for which to invoke a hate crime charge. The way most of these laws are written, the criminal charge is augmented by one count.

          • Sheik Yerbouti

            There used to be!

          • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

            In what state, or federal law, was there a class of crime above murder or crimes against the state?

          • Sheik Yerbouti

            I was speaking to the count. Not the crime. Murderers don’t always stop at 1. We are too soft on murderers. The system keeps them alive longer than they deserve and their execution is usually a peaceful drift off to eternity for them. The worst of murderers should be punished horribly before being executed horribly. People need to know that murdering someone isn’t going to be a cushy ride through the courts.

            I’m also thinking Treason was originally a execution-rated offense. If the US was serious there would be a lot of people being executed for what they are doing to the nation.

          • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

            Treason is a crime against the state. In terms of what constitutes it though…you have the First Amendment.

          • http://tinatrent.com/ Tina Trent

            wrong

  • DogmaelJones1

    If Obama had sons, (remember his remark about Travon Martin?) they’d be just like the Carr brothers. Because what the Carr brothers did to those people, that’s what Obama wants to do to this country.

  • Alleged Comment

    Now I see why Southerners kept Negroes as slaves. I hope they also learn when you make one a phoney president.

    Be glad Demoncraps control the court. Demoncraps actually make them suffer by letting them live in prison. Pssst…. but please don’t tell that to Demoncraps otherwise they will be for the death penalty.

    • American Patriot

      Shut up, David Duke, Jr. So you think that the murder of James Byrd, Jr. At the hands of three white supremacists (well, two of them were supremacists) was justified, fool? We don’t tolerate racism, regardless of who believes it.

      • Alleged Comment

        Was this in retaliation for what Negroes did, Mr. Obama Jr.?

        • American Patriot

          Why do you assume that I support the president? I don’t support the president. His policies, both domestic and foreign, are a mess. Anyway, what do you mean by “retaliation”? And I do know that word’s definition.

    • American Patriot

      Besides, Obama is a mixed-race president. He is half-black and half-white, even if many people ignore or deny that fact.

  • Endeavour

    These two black demons must be treated not as humans, but as rabid animals…

  • gerryb

    http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Reginald_and_Jonathan_Carr
    these were 2 extremely damaged individuals…tragic for their victims

  • hammerclaw

    I am certainly not happy about the ruling of the Kansas Supreme Court in these cases. I am certain that both Reginald and Jonathan Carr were responsible for all of these crimes. The court ruling however, did not say that they were innocent. Rather, the justices felt that the state of Kansas should have tried the men separately rather than together. The aggravating factor of rape used for the capital murder charges, should have cited the deceased victims as the victim of a crime rather than that of Holly Glover who survived the crime.

    furthermore, the court felt that the state overloaded on some charges. There should have been one count of capital murder with three additional murders as the aggravating factor. Instead the state pursued 4 counts of capital murder with each individual murder as a primary death with the three additional murders being charged.

    The overall ruling sickens me, but I just wanted to provide an explanation of what the court had determined.