Facebook post 'I feel like killin some1' proves true

Nineteen-year-old Craig Ramsden left a simple message on his Facebook wall: "I'm twisted at home. My head's up my ****. I feel like killin some1 need to stay off the hard stuff ha ---- it it's Saturday ha."

Then he went out to a bar in Bolton, U.K., and stabbed 31-year-old Paul Gilligan to death.

On Wednesday, he was sentenced to at least 17 years in jail, the same number received last week by another Englishman, Edward Robinson, for murdering his wife after she changed her Facebook status to "single."

Although Ramsden's Facebook post was deleted some time after the stabbing of Mr. Gilligan, police found it by examining a laptop used by a witness who had visited Ramsden's Facebook page upon hearing about the stabbing.

The judge dismissed any idea that Ramsden had been provoked--he actually returned to the bar to commit the murder after some apparent "play fighting" with Mr. Gilligan earlier in the evening.

It's a little difficult to claim that you have been provoked when you "called" the murder before actually committing it.

[matrage]

Even more proof Facebook is THE ANTICHRIST

[umbrae]

More like Facebook is for idiots, and should not be used by normal people.

[Chapmaniac]

I'll consider Matrage's comment as a joke.
Websites don't kill people... you know the rest.

[divide_by_zero]

people with websites, kill people!

[alegr]

Websites don't kill people... silent cameraphones, on the other hand... or so that guy in Washington thinks.

[techman21]

And why does society think we owe it to these criminals to pay for them to be locked up instead of executed? He violated someone's right to life, his should be forfeit.

[clamenza]

Because in the real world most cases aren't so cut-and-dry.

[massfat]

Because innocent people get convicted because the system is complete garbage.

[tlallen_us]

what concerns me is that society OR Facebook thinks it's ok for this user to add a comment like this BUT a woman cannot showcase breastfeeding photos on her Facebook account. I ask Facebook the questions: which does more harm???

[divide_by_zero]

How would facebook or anyone know that this was an actual threat and not just ranting or a poor attempt at dark humor?

As for breastfeeding photos, I don't know... if I were a woman I would be super creeped out about posting something like that on the internet... perhaps you think only your close friends/family will be viewing them but how could you be sure that Joe the pedophile hasn't came across them?

[whobens]

The world is filled with hypocrites. You cannot blame Facebook. Any idiot with a computer and an internet connection can write whatever is going on their disturbed minds.

[thelemurking]

What? I thought MySpace was the evil place and Facebook was supposed to be a little more civilized! After all, the media likes to point out that MySpace is plagued with pedophiles and perverts and Facebook was said to be safer.

Just goes to show you, that when you get a large group of people in one place, you are bound to encounter some level of degenerates. Doesn't matter if it's online, at a mall, or at a church.

[imhodudes]

Similar with Bush/Cheney and killing tens of thousands in Iraq. They made their intentions clear, but we did nothing to stop them.

[clamenza]

Good one.

[dreamafrica]

Why do some people often abuse their rights by denying others there own right with cheap excuses?

[breakaoss]

to imhodudes and clamenza:

But it's ok for them to kill thousands of Americans without consequence?
Nuke them till they glow and shoot them in the dark

[kellyforever]

I think its ludacris the whole situation the point is a man is dead becuase no one on facebook spotted the signs of a mad man he said he needed to stay of the hard dtuff and he wanted to kill sombody then did the same night thats not coinsidance thats sheer brutal murder and i dont think a stretch inside is enough for this cold blooded murder just goes to show that networkin sites can sumtimes to quick to miss major events and prevent them