Earlier this month, Harrel Braddy was finally sentenced to death for the 1998 kidnapping of Shandelle Maycock and her 5-year-old daughter Quatisha. He drove them to a sugarcane field where he strangled Shandelle until he thought she was dead. He then drove little Quatisha to an area of the Everglades known as Alligator Alley, threw her in the water, and left her to be eaten alive.

In court, Braddy was wearing an electric shock device and knee brace and was surrounded by “extra police officers, all measures taken after Braddy escaped from the courthouse in 1984 when he choked a Miami-Dade County corrections officer.”

“During two other escapes that year, Braddy kidnapped and robbed an assistant pastor and an elderly couple. At one point Braddy was on the run for more than a month before authorities found him in Georgia.”

So yeah, it’s a good thing Miami-Dade County is so cautious with this obviously dangerous, violent criminal. Unfortunately, it seems they neglected to use the knee brace, electronic shock device and extra police when they released him from prison in 1997 for “good behavior” — after serving less than half of a 30-year sentence for a variety of charges, including two counts of attempted murder.

“After he was arrested for kidnapping the Maycocks, he tried to escape from the interrogation room by bending an air conditioning grate.”

Chet Stiles, 27, appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom yesterday to confirm he’s broke and needs a court-appointed attorney to defend him against charges he sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl. Oh, and filmed it. But in time-honored American tradition, a man who raped a toddler on videotape will still cost taxpayers millions of dollars with a “not guilty” plea. You might argue that these millions would be better spent on sex offender treatment, or restitution for his victim, or food for starving children. You fascist.

Remember fellow countrypersons, ’tis better ten videotaped child rapists go free than one defense attorney piss himself in a fit of constitutionally protected rage.

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