Christ, only 2.5 years for murdering a kid in cold blood?
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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Worse than that. Doing it under color of law makes it a more serious crime than even murder alone. Or, I suppose several other additional crimes.
I would say he should have fried but I cannot support the state applying the death penalty to citizens, even when it is richly deserved.
"My God, My God, What have I done, I didn't mean to do it."
He pointed a gun at a teenager to force them to give a (false) confession. Repeatedly. Even if he didn't mean it or if the gun never shot, it's sick to imagine the whole lead up to that crime. His actions were disturbing and wicked from the very start. And that important nuance was seemingly ignored when he was sentenced.
On the morning of July 24, 1973, in Dallas, Texas, 30-year-old Dallas Police Officer Darrell Lee Cain murdered Santos Rodriguez, a 12-year-old Mexican-American child.
Darrell Lee Cain, 30, had worked at the Dallas Police Department for five years when he committed the murder of Santos. He was born in Benkelman, Nebraska, on March 31, 1943. He died on March 17, 2019.
Cain lived 46 more years, to his 75, after killing a handcuffed innocent 12 year old!
Burleson stated that Cain sought to put his past behind him, and intended to move to a small town outside of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Cain later worked as an insurance claim adjuster and became married in 1980.
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