TWO RACIST KILLERS SPARED DEATH PENALTY; GET LIFE WITH NO PAROLE

We have seen how silly things can get in Philly when white racists get busted on criminal charges, so to think that they were going to actually give two of them the death penalty for killing a black man and a 15-year-old friend might have a bit of a lofty goal. The jury deadlocked on that decision, so the judge sentenced Gerald Drummond (pictured) and Robert McDowell to life without any chance of parole.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Calling them “irredeemable,” a Philadelphia judge on Thursday sentenced two Tacony men to consecutive life prison terms after a Common Pleas Court jury deadlocked on imposing the death penalty for the execution-style murders of a neighborhood man and his teenage friend.

The jurors deliberated about four hours before telling Judge Renee Cardwell Hughes they were deadlocked. Under Pennsylvania law, the judge then had to impose life sentences without parole on Gerald Drummond, 26, and Robert McDowell, 28, convicted of first-degree murder in the July 13, 2007, shootings of Damien Holloway, 27, and Timmy Clark, 15.

Trial witnesses described the killings as at least partly motivated by race: Drummond and McDowell are white; Holloway was black and had a child with Drummond’s sister.