Posted on 11/19/2018 1:24:58 PM PST by ColdOne
GREELEY, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado man was sentenced to life without parole on Monday for strangling his pregnant wife, smothering their two young daughters and dumping their bodies in an oil field so he could pursue a romantic affair. Christopher Watts, 33, was spared the death penalty at the urging of family members of his wife, Shanann, 34, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and their daughters Celeste, 3, and Bella, 4.
This is perhaps the most inhumane and vicious crime I have handled, Judge Marcelo Kopcow, who has 17 years on the bench, said in the packed and windowless courtroom in Weld County District Court.
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Scott Peterson is on Death Row. Due to meet his maker in 2021.
They were both charged with murder of an unborn child; This crime of murder has been committed millions of times over the last decades in abortion clinics. Restore morality by making abortion a crime and stop asking decent people to pay for it through taxes.
Its the culture, stupid. Like a get out of jail card. He got away with it.
Psychopath.
Wow... in the old days, if I had done that, the family of the victim would have strangled with their bare hands.
Now all fhey do is call me a monster. I laugh at them... hard.
I don’t consider LWOP “getting away with it.” Not as final as being drawn and quartered, but it does prolong the reflection time.
At 33 years old he can expect to spend fifty years in prison. He might soon wish the family would have taken him out.
He gets a warm bed, three meals a day and plenty of exercise and recreation for the rest of his life.
More than his wife and daughters got. Yup - he got away with it, alright.
I do not consider the sentence justice in my book.
I I would never put up with that if I was the womans father. A son in law that killed my child would be absolutely dead to me.
She has a pathetic excuse for a father.
I always regret reading these.
I cannot in my wildest imagination (and I do have one) hurting my children or anyone else’s, or killing for “romance.”
I just don’t understand...
Except to believe that Satan is alive and well.
He / She certainly is.
Put him in a cell with Bubba who hates women and child killers.
The depravity of human nature I have yet to see get lower.
In my half century on this earth, the depth of human malice and evil fail to shock me.
At a certain point, societys monsters seem just too normal.
Bizarre. No blinking. No nothing.
Oh no! The taxpayers have been sentenced to his life in Prison? What did they do to deserve that?
What does it cost nowadays, something like $40,000.00 per year? If he lives 30 more years, that will cost the taxpayers 1.2 million dollars.
Bullets are cheaper and more fair. Stupid Jury. They ought to put a tax on Juries that vote for life. Make them pay for their own squeamishness.
I doubt he’ll survive til New Years Eve.
3000 children are slaughtered every day by their mothers ...
The DA personally met with the victims’ family and they approved the deal. The practicality is they will be spared years and years of court proceedings and appeals, having to relive their grief every time they attend one. And, as others have noted, the chances of the guy actually being executed are slim in the present political climate in this state.
Californicated Colorado.
Stupid liberal idiots down from the DA, the jury, the victims family and the murderers family.
No one comes looking good out of this wretched travesty of an affair.
An abortion - a judicial miscarriage of justice.
And the dead woman and kids remain an afterthought.
That is what the family wanted. They forgave him.
Family for Shanann didn’t what the death penalty.
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