Posted on 11/24/2003 7:35:06 AM PST by Catspaw
The decision of the jury will be announced within 15 minutes.
Read in the Wash Times Friday that the average length in Virginia between sentence and execution is 3 years. Average nationwide is just over 9 years. It's good to be a Virginian today!
I used to think that life in prison was too good for such monsters.
I've since come to realize that for such monsters, life in prison is no big deal--they probably enjoy it: they get to bully other prisoners and continue to feed their sick egos, have free food, room and board, drugs, etc.
We must not think they view prison as normal people view it--else why would their lawyers always fight to save their criminal clients from the death penalty?
*Perfect*
I don't either, yet I still think it wrong the media cheered for his death sentence and not John Muhammad's.
Gawd! Sign me up!
It vindicates the decision to try him in Virginia. We could not count on Maryland or D.C. to render justice.
If money were no object, I suppose I could live with locking themm in an oublette and forgetting about them. However, we are in a world where there are many priorities and not enough money to go around. If it costs more than $100,000 a year to keep a life/w/o/parole prisoner in the hoosegow (which is the estimate I've seen), that's a lot of money that should go to other things that benefit society. I'd rather put the money into programs designed to teach ghetto kids working skills and reading: there's at least a chance that some good will come of it. Money spent to confine a lifer is just a sunk cost.
Understand, I see this as a practical approach, not perhaps the most morally ideal approach. I'm just not willing to pay higher taxes to support some murderer's comfortable (or even his or her uncomfortable) life in jail that could last 30-40 years or more.
Convicted sniper John Muhammad looks back to his attorneys after a bench conference at the end of the testimony of his ex-wife, Mildred, during the penalty phase of his trial in Virginia Beach, Virginia, November 19, 2003. The jury that must decide whether convicted U.S. sniper John Muhammad should live or die saw a home video on Nov. 20 showing him as an affectionate father, bathing his young son and giggling as a daughter took some wobbly steps. Photo by Pool/Reuters
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Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad is escorted into Courtroom 10 at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach, Va., Monday Nov. 24, 2003. The jury is beginning its second day of deliberation in the sentencing phase of the trial. (AP Photo/Davis Turner,pool)
Convicted U.S. sniper John Muhammad stands in court as the jury reconvenes after deliberating his fate for almost 4 hours at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach, Virginia November 21, 2003. The jury that convicted Muhammad of one of 10 fatal shootings that terrorized Washington, D.C., failed to agree on Friday on whether he should live or die for his crimes. The panel of seven women and five men will reconvene on Monday. REUTERS/Martin Smith-Rodden/POOL
Washington, DC area sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad. A jury recommended Muhammad be executed for the Washington sniper killings, television reports said.(AFP/Getty Images/Pool/Lawrence Jackson)
Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad looks down during the penalty phase of his trial(AFP/POOL/Lawrence Jackson)
Convicted sniper John Muhammad stands as the jury sentencing recommendation is read at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach, Virginia, November 24, 2003. The jury recommended that Muhammad be sentenced to death for one of 10 fatal shootings that terrorized the U.S. capital last year. Photo by Pool/Reuters
Defense attorney Peter Greenspun talks to convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, left, after the jury reccommendation of death was read in courtroom 10 at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach, Va., Monday Nov. 24, 2003. (AP Photo/Davis Turner/POOL)
Convicted sniper John Muhammad looks over to his attorney, Peter Greenspun, as the jury sentencing recommendation is read at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach, Virginia, November 24, 2003. The jury recommended on Monday that Muhammad be sentenced to death for one of 10 fatal shootings that terrorized the U.S. capital last year. REUTERS/Davis Turner/POOL
Fairfax County Sniper Task Force supervisor, Lt. Bruce Guth, center is comforted by Melissa Thomas, left, and FBI special agent Mike McCoy, right, after the sentence of death was reccommended by a jury in the case of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia Beach, Va., Monday Nov. 24, 2003. (AP Photo/Davis Turner/POOL)
Tell that to the victims' families.
But short of that, spending the money and applying the technology necessary to safely confine somebody for life doesn't seem too high a price to pay.
Let's see...pay hundreds of thousands or even millions on babysitting this scumsucker for the rest of his natural life or spend a couple of bucks on some chemicals...hmmm
Bottom line, this ANIMAL forfeited his right to continue using our air when he pulled the trigger and/or encouraged Malvo to do the same. He's a dead man, end of story.
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