.... but this fugger deserves to die a horrible death!!!

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NEW YORK - An ex-convict went on trial Thursday on charges of raping, torturing and burning a Columbia University graduate student in a 19-hour attack during which her eyelids were slit and she was forced to take so many painkillers that her liver failed.

Robert Williams, 31, sat with chained arms and legs, his head lowered, as the prosecutor delivered an opening statement that left several people in the courtroom weeping.

Williams turned the victim's small one-bedroom apartment into "his torture chamber" and violated the 23-year-old woman "in every way imaginable and in some ways unimaginable," Assistant District Attorney Ann Prunty told the jury.

Prunty said Williams stopped the torture only after the victim — who at one point during the ordeal tried to kill herself — blacked out from hours of pain caused by knife wounds, boiling water, battering and sexual assaults.

"Then he could no longer feel power over another human being," Prunty said.

Williams is charged with kidnapping, arson, burglary and sexual assault. He faces life in prison if convicted.

The defendant's lawyer, Arnold Levine, tried but failed to have Williams declared mentally unfit for trial. Levine did not make an opening statement.

The victim, a Columbia University journalism graduate student, found Williams in her building's elevator in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan when she came home around 9:30 p.m. on April 13, 2007, Prunty said. She said he followed her to her fifth-floor apartment and attacked her.

During the brutal ordeal, Prunty told jurors, Williams raped the victim, poured boiling water over her, hurled a pot of bleach in her face, ordered her to gouge out her own eyes with a pair of scissors, sealed her lips shut with glue and duct tape and slit her eyelids with a butcher's knife.

After one assault, he forced the woman to swallow a fi****l of pills from her medicine cabinet and wash them down with four beers, Prunty said.

Doctors later said the woman's liver had failed, probably because of the medicine, and that a liver transplant might be necessary. Fortunately, the transplant was not needed, Prunty said.

The woman at one point tried to plunge a pair of scissors into her own neck in a bid to commit suicide.

After about 19 hours, Prunty said, Williams tied the naked, unconscious woman to a futon with computer cables and set it on fire. The woman awoke and smelled smoke, broke free and made her way to the hallway, where she was rescued.

Prunty said Williams' DNA was found on the victim and her clothing, and her DNA was found on his clothing. Security cameras captured him trying to withdraw money with the woman's ATM card, she said.

During the time she was conscious, Prunty said, the victim studied Williams closely. Prunty said every scar and feature she later described to police matched the appearance of the defendant.

Source - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24993223/

 

Wow. Her life will forever be ruined. Terrible to have to live through something like that.

How can people have the nerve to do something like that? How can you even think of doing that, let alone take initiative?!?!

 

just another reason im glad we enforce the death penalty in Texas

 

Thats crazy, I wonder what she did to him to make him so pissed off.

 

I felt like I just read the X-rated version of one of the SAW movies. That is literally beyond my imagination.

That is one sick **** who deserves EQUAL punishment by the world's best torturers for the rest of his life- making sure it is a long one.

 

we need to reopen alcatraz and go back to those days for scum like this. life in solitary comfinement for starters.

 

A good chance nothing. Hes probably just so ****ed up that he needed to do this to somebody.

 

That artical was pretty graphic!!

I really dont think rotting in hell would do justice for what he did, I cant imagine what the poor girls family is going threw. If i was that girls brother i would be on death row right now for what i would do to that low life p.o.s!!!!

 

What makes you think that she did anything to deserve that! There are just insane/evil people like that walking around in society, & they need to be exterminated like the roaches that they are!...............

 

That is horrible. When did the threat of death become not enough to stop horrible things like this from happening. I feel like we need to up the ante. This guy porbably wants to die, so if we kill him he wins twice.

 

I wish we had the death penalty here. This guy will never be normal so why spend the tax payers money feeding and clothing this loser. The case sounds open and shut. It should be straight to death row do not pass go, where his sentence should be carried out right away.

In Canada some bleeding heart judge would give this guy 20 years and he would be out in 10 for good behaviour and everyone would be up in arms wondering what happened when he did it again after he got out.

This guy should have been shot "trying to escape"!

 

This guy will probably plea insanity and get out in a few years. They should role a tarp out in the middle of the court room and shoot him right there then put him in the trash.

 

Trust me that guy won't be getting out of anything in a few years unless he commits suicide!...................

 

I strongly believe in the death penalty and we should change it. No more lethal injections. Just a .50 cal round right into their head in a small chamber that contains the explosion of their head. .50 cal rounds aren't nearly as expensive as lethal injections. People want to say that's cruel, they need to grow the **** up. These people aren't on trial because they were good people, they don't have any rights anymore. This world makes me so sick some times ... It's like our country has no morals in right and wrong.

 

Sorry, but no cigar.

From the article - The defendant's lawyer, Arnold Levine, tried but failed to have Williams declared mentally unfit for trial. Levine did not make an opening statement.

Amen!