Lee Malvo jury has reached a decision on sentence (Life without parole)

Fox News Channel | December 23, 2003 | self

[snopercod]

To be released soon

[AmericanInTokyo]

"When Linda Franklin discovered she had breast cancer several years ago, she faced her mortality head-on, just as she had with every other challenge. The 47-year-old underwent a double mastectomy and overcame the brutal rehabilitation that followed, all with the attitude of a fighter who had survived a war zone and raised two children while putting herself through college. But Franklin had no chance against the sniper's bullet that struck her outside a Home Depot store on Oct. 14, 2002, tearing away the right side of her face and leaving her husband spattered with her blood. On Monday, the 18-year-old who authorities believe killed her goes on trial in Chesapeake, Va., charged with capital murder. Prosecutors believe Lee Boyd Malvo shot Franklin from a hiding place in the trunk of a car as his alleged accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, waited behind the wheel. Muhammad is already on trial in nearby Virginia Beach in another of the 10 sniper killings that terrified the Washington area last fall. Malvo's lawyers plan an insanity defense, arguing the young man was so indoctrinated by Muhammad, 42, that he no longer knew right from wrong. As an FBI analyst in Washington, Linda Franklin studied terror threats. It was a job she loved, friends say, and one at which she excelled. Katrina Hannum, Franklin's 24-year-old daughter, described her mother as "good at everything that she did." "She was an amazing, amazing woman who touched everyone that she came into contact with," a tearful Hannum testified at Muhammad's trial. She did not respond to requests for an interview."

[twigs]

Interesting. I had lunch about a month ago at the faculty dining room with the criminal justice teachers where my husband teaches. We asked the chair her predictions and she got it on the money. Mohammed death; Malvo life without parole.

[RoseofTexas]

OH MY!! Ship the SOB F***er over to Texas, we'll show the WHOLE FREAKING COUNTRY how it's done!!

[Howlin]

Of course, I would never have been selected as a jury member anyway after they asked me if I believed in the death penalty!

I would have LOVED to have heard THAT rant.......LOL.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Wasn't at least one in Louisiana?"

Yes--one of them killed a woman in Baton Rouge. I suspect either Alabama or Louisiana will toast the little scumbag. Washington has the death penalty, but since they just let the "Green River" killer off with a life sentence (he ONLY killed 48 women), I doubt Malvo would get other than another life sentence.

[ironman]

Having been directly impacted by the terror Malvo caused here in Northern Virginia I'm disappointed. Mass murderer gets life and not death??

[snopercod]

The people on that jury need to be horse-whipped!

You know what they were thinking: "Tomorrow is Christmas eve, and we gotta' get home to bake cookies and stuff."

[hellinahandcart]

I'm with you. But this isn't his last trial. He may get the needle yet.

Anyway, they keep saying "Life without parole" on the radio, I wonder if it really means NO PAROLE.

[No Blue States]

Thats right texas kills its murderers. even if they repent afterwards. remember tammy faye?

I trust Alabama can take care of this problem, i hope so.

[maica]

I should have made a bet on this outcome. There was no way that 8 women would be able to sentence a 'kid' to death during Christmas week! They would have had to have hearts like Palestinian women. I could have voted for Death, but I don't think a random group of 8 could ALL do it and then go home and hang the stockings by the chimney with care. It was very fortuitous for young Malvo that his sentencing was scheduled for this week.

[Catspaw]

Oh, that's right. I had forgotten about the murder in Louisiana.

They killed in Virigina, Maryland, Washington state, Alabama, Louisiana--and District of Columbia, I do believe.

Did I miss any?

[CedarDave]

Please change thread title to reflect malvo received life for his murders (another sad day for the US judical system).

[Ex-Dem]

I just read that about half of Virginians don't consider themselves to be Southerners.

Most of them probably live in northern Virginia. Pretty liberal area. Probably comes from being too close to DC.

[ArrogantBustard]

They're twelve Americans who made a decision I disagree with. But I've been where they were, and I'm not going to second guess them. And you don't know how many voted for DP. One holdout voting for LIP would result in an LIP sentence. Having juries truly free to render unpopular verdicts, with no fear of reprisal, is far more important than frying one murderer (rather then sticking him in a dark hole for the rest of his life).

But cheer up: he will face other murder charges, in Virginia and elsewhere.

[nina0113]

In Virginia it does - the only way he's leaving the VA prison is to go to trial somewhere else, or feet first.

[clintonh8r]

He'll be getting a lethal injection, but it won't be coming from a needle, and it won't be sudden.

[Alberta's Child]

What would make the Louisiana and Alabama trials so bizarre is that jurors in those cases would know exactly who he was and the circumstances around the Virginia trial even though they aren't supposed to consider those things in their deliberations for the specific crimes in Louisiana and Alabama.

"Maybe it would have been life without parole for a single murder in Alabama, but since he also killed those folks up there in Virginny we have no choice but to fry the bastard."

[Frank_Discussion]

Damn dude. Why are you plastering me with this? Because I laughed at a comment somebody made, and before the verdict came down?

Now that the nimrods have wimped out, it doesn't seem nearly so funny. Don't throw it in my face, I know what this "boy" (feh) did, and I understand the evil he and his act embody.

I truly thought he'd get the DP.

[snopercod]

Having juries truly free to render unpopular verdicts, with no fear of reprisal, is far more important than frying one murderer...

Amen to that!

[ArrogantBustard]

I wonder if it really means NO PAROLE.

There is no parole in Virginia. His walls will forever be gray, and his windows will forever have bars, and his name will forever be "punk"...

WM, take your horsewhip to Red China, it will fit in better over there.