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.”
Think of the children!!
What I’m saying is, this man was rightly given the benefit of the doubt until he threw one to the alligators. The life of a little girl is a small (little, diminutive, minimal) price to pay to ensure the fair treatment of a man with just 2 attempts at murder, choking a corrections officer, kidnapping, robbery, attempted escape, and “other charges” on his record.
I applaud the restraint of the Florida law enforcement community…the ones who bring us over and over again, restraint, from their treatment of OJ Simpson, to John Couey and other sex offenders. I wanna live out my retirement there with such dedicated and restrained civil servants looking after my safety.