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PA Governor Signs Cool C’s Death Warrant

Friday, January 13, 2006
By: Michael Ivey


Cool CGovernor Ed Rendell signed away Philadelphia rap pioneer Cool C’s life this week. Thirty six year old Christopher "Cool C" Roney is doomed to die by lethal injection on March 9th for murdering Philadelphia police officer Lauretha Vaird in 1996.

Cool C was found guilty of killing the nine year veteran during a bungled bank robbery which included former collaborator Warren "Steady B" McGlone. McGlone was convicted and sentenced to life as an accomplice, but Philadelphia prosecutors fingered Roney as the gun man. Last year a Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the decision as did the U.S. Supreme Court.

Lauretha Vaird was the first female PPD officer killed on the job. With songs like "Glamorous Life" and the State Property sampled "Juice Crew Dis" ("When You Hear That") Cool C made room for Philadelphia rap in the 80’s. He released I Gotta Habit (1989) and Life in the Ghetto (1990) as a solo artist then joined Steady B and Ultimate Eaze as C.E.B. spawning the ironically titled Countin’ Endless Bank in 1993 (Ruffhouse Records).


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Dang...i never new cool c got arrested....i hate the death penalty....it does nothing to right the wrongs
Posted by B2SKETCHY
Attention all rappers: get your business and your paper straight or sadly, this could be you.
Posted by MISTA WILL
Damn, i was a fan too when i was younger. Sorry to hear that.
Posted by feloniousmarc
Hmmm...another black brother lost..
Posted by Da ruckus
Damn thats messed up
Posted by The Gunit General
He did kill a cop...
Posted by anthologyosu09
^ sh*t he ain't the only one who killed a cop, but might be one of the few who's not home and getting the death penalty! i just didn't know it got that bad for a n*gga. Damn "c" still got love for you! glamorous girl is still my favorite and as i got older love to live by it!! ooh, ooh you got it--------- hold ya head up stay positive 'cause we all have to go some day we just need to count our blessings and stop judging 1 another!!!!!!
Posted by chele05
Hey according to the rappers the gangster life is great. You reap what you sow. You sow violence you reap violence. U live by thr sword u die the sword.
Posted by shaddai71
Cool c wasn't a gangsta rapper fool
Posted by Ellemaj
Nothing gets a party jumping for me if i don't hear glamorous life. I never thought the day would come and this would actually happen for cool. You'll always be in my thoughts and prayers.
Posted by premier-k
Mr prayers go out to the victims family and by no way should this be glorified in the light of rap music but officer lauretha vaird is gone, and killing cool c is not going to change things or bring her back. Governor ed rendell should reconsider because if not, he is just as guilty as cool c. Murder is murder you don't always have to pull the trigger to be guilty, may god bless c's soul....the madd chef
Posted by chefsah
i never knew he was arrested and lest gone .the glamorous life is still up there with me.god bless and gods speed.
Posted by d-teo
Thats what trying to give a woman the glamorous life will get you
Posted by big rob
I have the 12 inch of glamouous life and i even have it bumpin my ipod, im a hugh fan of cool c and im also a police officer, murder is murder, i love you music but hate your crime so when the time comes for you to draw your last breth remember that woman you killed.
Posted by RICARDO
I have been a cool c fan since the beginning of his career.even got to meet the man once back in the day,when i was but a young knucklehead myself.the man had mad talent;nothing worse than wasted talent.the song "i gotta habit" is still one of my favorites,i still bump that sh*t when rolling around.as for rendell,F*ck him.as well as the damn pig that died.granted,cool c shouldn't have been doing stupid sh*t like robbing banks,he was making money as it was,and straight up,rap aside,they called them boys the hilltop hustlers for a reason.but!!!!karma is a Bia'ch,and it often works both ways.most dirty pigs i have met really deserve to die.always hassling people for no damn reason,flexing their bullsh*t "authority" until someone takes them down a notch.pigs need to remember that the badge and the batman utility belt don't make them invincible.i read all these comments above,and see so many that are on the pigs' nutz.damn,seems like too many folks haven't lived the street life and seen these storm troopers for what they are...wanna be bullies.personally,i feel confident that the pig that died surely had it coming for one reason or another.i myself have seen how these jackboot puertos operate first hand,and have been hassled by them everywhere i have lived-from bmore to dc to pittsburgh,to denver,even down in texas.same everywhere.hassled all the damn time for petty sh*t,just because i roll nice whips and whear some diamonds.i have been fortunate enough to beat,in court,around about 300 years worth o
Posted by KILLERB
I am a man of god. And jesus christ is my savior. I grew up on cool c. Murder is murder and justice is delivered to the just as well as the unjust. Who cares if he was a rapper even worse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i had a vision that i was deceived by a rapper biggie smalls. Who blasphemed against god i couldnt turn the music off becaused i loved his music. Then i ended up somewhere out west an i met a rapper he kept telling me he had a death warrant when he left the state. The police knew where he was. And the only thing he could think of was leaving the state. Then another rapper came up to us and said the same thing to us. Everyone doesnt know they are the devils preachers leading the decived by what they glorify. Email me!!!
Posted by ktgraines@aol.com
Cool c was a pimp rapper at least let him record a couple of songs before he dies. Him and akon on a song would be like adding peanut butter to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Posted by Joe Malin
Ballin
Posted by Ballin Fred
What a pin head...let him record a rap song before he dies???? i cant believe he said that crap. What did that woman get to do before she died, and she was doing a job protecting the public from ignorance, lawlessness and crime. She didnt get to tell her kids goodbye. She was a mother and somebody's daughter. That is such a selfish comment. Like the bible says an eye for an eye. My heart goes out to that police officers family and cool c......may god have no mercy on your soul!!
Posted by Darrin
He didnt do it those ppl are liers!
Posted by sarenah
To my man'z cool c ...i'm not hear to judge you and i will always be a fan, but wrong is wrong and the only thing positive that could come out of this is maybe others can learn from your mistakes we have so many fatherless young men out here who are being raised by the streets and the cycle is repeating its self over and over, my father told me along time ago that its just as easy to right as it is to do wrong. I would like to say prayer for cool c's family and a prayer for the falling officer two lives gone because of one bad decision. Kevin whitfield detroit,michigan
Posted by Kevin Whitfield
To my man'z cool c ...i'm not here to judge you and i will always be a fan, but wrong is wrong and the only thing positive that could come out of this is maybe others can learn from your mistakes we have so many fatherless young men out here who are being raised by the streets and the cycle is repeating its self over and over, my father told me along time ago that its just as easy to right as it is to do wrong. I would like to say prayer for cool c's family and a prayer for the falling officer two lives gone because of one bad decision. Kevin whitfield detroit,michigan
Posted by Kevin Whitfield
I feel that cool c and steady b were good rappers back in the 80's and we don't know what type of problems financially they were going through to make them do something dumb like actually robbing a bank even if the officer did not get killed they still would have been arrested.
Posted by Ron
A stay of execution only postpones the inevitable. I feel for cool c, but the real scare is when he has to stand before god and explain his actions at judgement. What will he say when he has to explain why he killed an officer of the law and mother of two.......for money! i'd rather be a bumb and hit rock bottom, than to burn in hell for all eternity............try that for a sleepinig pill!
Posted by S.S.T
Has he been executed yet? any info?
Posted by Hopdabop
As it stands, cool c has not been executed yet. The stay of execution still stands until some legal stuff is dealt with. He was granted a stay about 1 month and a few weeks before he was due to be executed......that was in feb. Of 2006. So far, nothin has been updated about the status of his situation. Whether they let him live life behind bars is what they are fighting for. According to pennsylvania law, the only reason he got the death penalty and not the same penalty as steady b was because he was collared as the trigger man by procecuters. Again, this is what i've been reading on him. He still maintains his innocense as far as the murder. I guess we'll see in the future. The supreme court already granted another death row inmate life in prison instead of death in georgia. Maybe cool c has a chance afterall.
Posted by S.S.T

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