John Ditullio, the Florida neo-Nazi who had his facial tattoos covered up in court to the tune of one-hundred-fifty taxpayer dollars a day, was found guilty of the March 2006 murder of 17-year-old gay teen Kristofer King, who was the friend of the son of Patricia Wells, who was also attacked in her mobile home because she was friends with a black man. He faces death.
It took jurors 11 hours to come back with first-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder convictions for Ditullio, who stabbed King in the skull, twice, with a knife while King was using the computer. Prosecutors argued he killed King because he was gay. Ditullio, who had stormed into Wells’ mobile home wearing a gas mask, also turned the knife on Wells, slicing her face hands and arms; miraculously she managed to escape by fleeing into the bedroom. Ditullio did not appreciate Wells’ friendship with a person of color.
King’s mother Charlene Bricken was in tears when the verdict was read. Wells, who also attended the trial to witness the fate of her attacker, said after the verdict, “Ditullio has been guilty all along. He’s known it right from the start. He wrote it in letters, he wrote it in poems; he’s told people. He’s the guilty one, there’s no doubt, and now it’s proven.”
During sentencing hearings this morning, Ditullio opted not to wear make-up; he wanted the judge to see his swastika tats. And he plans to testify before the sentence hearings are over.
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He faces the death penalty. He could very well get it.
UPDATE: Ditullio will serve life in prison. His attorney says he’ll appeal the verdict.
ChiGuy76
I do not believe in the death penalty under any circumstances, even in the case such as this vile, disgusting, loathesome person. And it’s not because I’m a bleeding heart liberal. Rather, it’s because killing Mr. Ditullio and others of his ilk is too good for them. Let them spend the rest of their lives behind bars knowing that they will never be free again. That they are forever in the company of the worst of humanity and will never get a break from that torture. Dante, after all, believed Hell was other people. I say let him rot there.
ousslander
yes, yes and yes
John
@ChiGuy76: I have no wish to put the lives of his fellow inmates or the prison guards at risk, let alone the public-at-large from any potential escapes in the future by Ditullio (see Ted Bundy). This man is a shining example of why I support the death penalty. He is a threat to society and should be put down like the rabid dog he is.
kokobean
I propose skull stabbing
reason
I am not a supporter of the death penalty myself, and would prefer him spending life in solitary confinement. Well of course there is the monetary issues. As a pragmatist, I do support equal justice under the law, so why I may ideologically disagree, if his crimes are consistent with a death sentence they should hand it down.
randy
He probably thinks that he will die a martyr to the “cause”, which is white supremacy and anti-gay hate. People like this are horribly mentally ill.
He should rot in jail so that in a few years, he will realize that no one cares about him or his twisted ideas. That will be the real punishment.
T-in-Cali
we kill people to show people that killing is wrong.
Sadbuttrue
Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole is the proper punishment.
skzip888
Is this how far it has to go before a state conservative state government will consider pursuing a Hate Crime charge? DID they pursue a Hate Crime charge?
If he’d just lit the trailer on fire and ran, would they bother?
If he was a respectable-looking old good ol’ boy with no facial tattoos, would they bother?
I happen to be against the Death Penalty as well, but I’m not really going to press that point just now. I’m wondering if these state prosecutors truly care about hate-motivated violence, or if they just see these Neo-Nazi groups as another gang of ruffians bringing down their property values.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
The one iota of anything in the universe I agree with the islamic counties is the eye for an eye punishment. Recently a man tossed acid into the face of a man who was dating his ex girlfriend disfigured, and blinded him. The attackers punishment was to have acid dropped in his eyes thus blinding him also. I hate to admit it but I kinda sorta agree with this method to a degree…………..
Putting a scumbag like this in prison will allow him three hot meals per day, free time, medical, and the ability to file numerous appeals. He will also be the object of affection of thousands and will be lauded as a hero to them. Many of these lunatics recieve numerous marriage proposals and marry in prison. The scumbag who murdered John Lennon in cold blood is married and is allowed to spend time alone in private with his wife……….
This scumbag is going to be branded a hero and recieve gifts, letters, and money for the rest of his life. I say end it as quickly and painfully as possible……
Queer Supremacist
Neo-Nazis should get the death penalty just for being Neo-Nazis. If it was good enough for Adolf Eichmann, it’s good enough for this piece of white trash.
I support the death penalty for convicted murderers and a mandatory death penalty for perpetrators of hate crimes. This breeder cracker monster’s existence is a hate crime.
Beat him to death with a blunt object. Get someone with AIDS to rape him with no lube, and then bleed all over him. Dip him slowly into a vat of sulfuric acid. Stab him with a rusty katana. Execute justice with the style and flair of all the great Disney villains.
SteveC
Absolutely not.
The death penalty is wrong.
The ‘eye for an eye’ mentality is for primitive, backward countries.
Life in prison without parole is the correct punishment for this guy.
scott ny'er
While he should die I’d much rather him suffer. He should be in a work-gang prison for the rest of his life. Or use him to test experimental drugs like a lab rat. HIV drugs would be fitting, I’m sure he’d go ape-shite over that.
Dillons
@scott ny’er: Agrred. At least that way he;ll be of some use to society.
Daez
@scott ny’er: Well said!
Perhaps another well suiting punishment would be to put him in the cell block controlled by the blacks and let him be someones bitch for the rest of his life.
B. Hill
If he were black, this post would have two dozen racially based responses by now. It’s always funny to me when a story gets posted here about a young white guy committing a anti-gay hate crime, we hear nothing about his race or any slants/generalizations toward it.
As for his punishment: just throw him in prison and let him leave out the rest of his natural life there.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
If you look further, the kid who he killed was not his intended target. He was not Gay, the scumbag was targeting another person who lived in the home who was Gay…..
Bret
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS:
Given the number of innocent people who go to prison, what if an innocent man were blinded with acid?
An eye for eye could only make sense if you had definitive proof of guilt. But there’s also the question of whether those imposing that punishment become just as bad if not worse that the guilty party since they know the punishment is evil.
Also, the person who killed was gay. The woman who was injured was targeted because she has a friend who is non-white.
Stephen Sallis
Shoot it in the head, it is rabid.
Brentinpdx
No, but he should be sodomized till death! If he rots in jail, he will be able to continue his hatred mantra and sway others to follow him…and we as tax payers get to foot the bill to keep his carcass alive.
jacknasty
honestly the only reason I’m against the death penalty in cases like this is that the death penalty ands up costing tax payers more after all the time and appeals and such that those cases go through.
Phil Boyd
Cut his balls off with a razor. Sprinkle salt on him and let the fucker bleed to death laying on a piss/shit filled floor.
Fitz
Someday, I will support the death penalty. For now, i feel that we don’t have the technology to always be 100% right. Every year we hear about some guy who was convicted 25 years ago, and now evidence shows it wasn’t him.. so we aren’t there yet.
My real problem is how the prison system works. he will be surrounded by other skin head gang members, and will have a much nicer life than the survivors of his victim. I would feel much better about putting him in solitary, or giving him a very thorough lobotomy.
Michael
This is premeditated murder. If it can be established this murderer is sane, of course he should get the death penalty. What’s the point in taxpayers footing the bill for life in prison?
Brett
@Michael:
It’s actually cheaper 2 keep someone alive in prison than paying for appeals. Also, if you really want to punish someone, give him life in solitary confinement.
ewe
Can the state skin him alive by chance? He deserves it. Although i am perfectly fine with him rotting away in a prison cell for the rest of his worthless days.
Naeo
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS:
Kris was gay. Brandon just wasn’t home that night.
as for all you death penalty people; Kris valued life, even those of people he disliked. I Firmly believe he wouldn’t want the death penalty, but rather to have the bastard suffer in prison for the rest of his life.
The closure of this trial does not bring my friend back, but just was served. he’ll stay behind bars for the rest of his life. In what i hope is the general populace. Ditullio’s 24, he’s gonna make some black guy very happy during his boy toy days in prison.
Comixbear
Actually, the verdict only took two minutes. The rest of the 11 hours were the different people on the jury arguing over who got to say to him “F**K you, a**hole, you are guilty as hell!”
Bill Cooney
Ask him what he thinks his punishment should be. If he can’t choose, then death by injection at the earliest date.
Queer Supremacist
@B. Hill: Oh come on, I called him a cracker. Your race card has been rejected, please don’t try again, douchebag.
I don’t care if it costs more money to kill them. They could always have contractors compete on price. Where does the money go anyway? Typical of the government to overspend on something that should, in theory, be relatively inexpensive.
I support the death penalty and torture for hate crimes, especially against gays. If you deprive an innocent person of his or her rights, you forfeit yours. If you do it because of a circumstance of their birth, then you deserve nothing less than the most violent treatment imaginable. This man is a terrorist. Hate crimes are terrorism and vice versa. The War on Terrorism begins at home.
Kill John Ditullio. Kill all gay bashers.
Naeo
@Queer Supremacist:
So, you want to kill them, because you dont like their beliefs. So you harbor hatred for them, okay. so you’re half way to being like them, except you hate people, who hate. Does this mean you hate yourself?
If people want to hate on others, that’s their right, people are allowed to believe what they want to believe. If they act on those beliefs and murder someone as the shithead did in this trial, then he deserves life in prison, without parole, where he can get handed around like a new piece of boy meat for the inmates.
He wont last long.
Queer Supremacist
@Naeo: Take your phony pacifism and facile moral equivalence elsewhere. They hate me because I’m gay. I hate them because they hate gay people. If they didn’t hate gay people, I would not continue to hate them. Not all hate is created equal. Not all bigotry is created equal. Hating an individual because of his or her actions, say for being tactless, rude, and insensitive, which are behaviors that one can control, or hating a TV show like “Glee” for sucking so badly, is not the same as hating all blacks for being black, all whites for being white, all gays for being gay, etc. Hating someone for being a racist, anti-semite, misogynist/misandrist or homophobe, is justifiable. Hating the Nazis for the Holocaust is not morally equivalent to the hatred the Nazis perpetrated. Hating the Klan for their reign of terror over the South for decades is not morally equivalent to their anti-black racism. They practice bigotry for its own sake. I give exactly what I get.
As Thomas Mann once opined, “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Ben
Oh my god, who cares? This man’s life is not something to be respected or valued. To say every single human life is precious is absurd. If every life is equally valuable then none of them are.
Kill him. If you don’t like the death penalty, then can we at least agree to hope he gets stabbed to death by some prison psycho?
Lolz
He arguably deserves to have his own life taken, but the death penalty is simply a dangerous power for the government to have. I hope he rots in jail.
Scott
Let him rot forever!
Jody
The death penalty is never justified. A system that kills people is inevitably going to kill an innocent.
This guy deserves to die. But no, we shouldn’t kill him. In case the next guy in line DOESN’T deserve it.
Jeandarc
k…and not ONE of you said a damned thing about his race. How interesting!
Well, ya can’t call him a “thug,” cuz that would align him with YOUR race and YOUR culture. Ya can’t call him a “nigger” because that would make you as bad as he is.
We all know (it’s no loner a secret) that many, many gays are as racist and class-conscious as their breeder counterparts. The ONLY difference is they’re gay and want the protections afforded by hate laws.
I saw f**king hypocrites!
And I use “they” to separate myself from such gay people though I am Black Lesbian and proud of it.
This piece of trash under discussion IS a thug of the lowest order; a criminal who would kill someone for being born black, brown, red, yellow or gay. Hang him the way he’d hang a Black or anyone else his kind loves to hate.
B. Hill
@Queer Supremacist: Your dad was a douche for not wearing a condom that night, you buffoonish stupid son of a bitch you. I don’t give a damn who you called a called a “cracker” Corky, my post said that if the perp had been black, there would have been more outrage, that more messages would have taken him to task and that a bevy of the comments would have been racially tinged. My position stands; your cracker remark wasn’t at all impressive, so shut the fuck up.
Mack Robertson
I would prefer to see him rot in jail; however, if he received such a sentence, I would be scared to death he would be paroled somewhere along the line. As a result, let him die.
Queer Supremacist
The moral cost to society of keeping these scumbags alive outweigh all financial considerations. Ben hit the nail on the head: not all human life is equally valuable. Some life has a negative value, and John Ditullio demeans the human race by his continued existence. The day they give him his just desserts will be a great day for this country. It shows that we value the innocent lives of gays over those who would murder them for being gay. Killing this breeder scumbag would be worth every penny.
@B. Hill: Except for my off-hand and well-justified slur of his inferior race, you’re the only one who mentioned race. You shut the fuck up, boy.
Nice to know you were one of the three people in America (my parents being the other two) who watched Life Goes On. Also nice to know you hate people with Down’s Syndrome.
@Jeandarc: We all know (it’s no loner a secret) that many, many gays are as racist and class-conscious as their breeder counterparts. The ONLY difference is they’re gay and want the protections afforded by hate laws.
And we all know that not all of them are white. In fact, in almost every thread I see race baiting by racist black gays. Does Michael “white gay men have enough rights already” Steele troll this board? And as a white gay man, I am offended.
Read this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terrance-heath/historically-black-homoph_b_141904.html
jeremy Wingarden
So this guy abused and murdered a kid am I correct?
Most prisoners have been abused in some way, perhaps many of them thanks to the various churches of child molestation who invoke the name of god in their various hate filled causes.
And I’ve read that the 2nd worst situation for a prisoner is to be an ex cop
the worst case is to be a child molester / murderer.
Would his fate be considered acceptable in the eyes of the law – maybe not. But for us he fits into my old definition as a child of some people who should be sent to “Warland”
Murderous maniacs put on an isolated island where they never can get loose, and where they build their own society. eye for eye does fit in this case
AL
The guy is a murderous Nazi scumbag. Yet, some bleeding heart liberals will rally to let him live, eat, watch TV, and have conjugal visits. This utterly idiotic philosophy of preciousness of the life of murderers needs to be removed from criminal justice system. Kill the bastard!
Random Observer
Nice to see people like Queer Supremacist expressing his obvious hate for the “cracker” race. Some people are so two-faced.
Pat Duffy
I don’t want a PENNY of my Florida tax dollars givento support this sick fu#k. Florida gives enough gov’t support to our enemies that do everything BUT kill us. We don’t need to subsidize our Murderers
Thank the Gods I’m no weenie Xian….
RLS
Another shining example of White Homophobia.
jason
John Ditullio is a piece of human diarrhea. I’d much rather he go to jail where he may be daily raped by a bunch of black men.
Michael
The boy was 17. He killed a child. And he did it because the child was gay. And he wanted to kill this gay boy’s gay friend who lived there as well because they both were openly gay. This was a hate crime, and he killed a child. Sometimes you don’t put a man on death row because he is a menace, or because it is vengeance, or because it is a deterrent.
You do it because that is the punishment for the crime.
He should be on death row. He got life in prison, so I can deal with that. It just breaks my heart that a 17 year old was murdered, and spent the last minutes of his conscious life in complete terror.
Sexy Rexy
All neo-Nazis deserve to die – why is this being debated.
Libertarian
@Sexy Rexy: Nobody deserves to die for their political ideology. This is the United States, where we value freedom in all aspects – it wasn’t that long ago that we had the red scare and McCarthyism. During that time we found out what this kind of hysteria and extremism can do. Any ideology that has values contrasting what the majority of the population holds will die out on its own.
Sexy Rexy
@Libertarian: And when people harm or kill others based on their political ideology, I say they DO deserve to die. We’ll agree to disagree here. Ditullio is totally entitled to his beliefs, but he murdered someone, took another life, BASED on those beliefs. No matter what you say, Libertarian, I won’t agree with you.
acem
@jason: Your mom should be able to give him some pointers about what kind of Vaseline to use when that happens. Word is she knows her way around some black dick. 😉 Every available orifice on her knows the touch of all 9 of Tyrone’s inches.
Hack
I have personally had the dis-pleasure of supervising this guy over the past 4 years. He at times appears sane, intelligent, .. human. Then other times you see the side of him, which led him to his situation. He deserves death.
tus32
@B. Hill: @B. Hill. STFU all the wrong that white folks have gotten away with shut ya dumb ass up wit that shit!