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

Fox News Channel | December 23, 2003 | self

[eddie willers]

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

That's ok....
Half of the Southerns don't count them in their numbers anyway.

[Dog Gone]

They can try him again in Virginia. I believe he was only charged with two of the murders.

[ArrogantBustard]

I expect people on this forum to think. Maybe that's expecting too much.

I've use the Red China analogy twice. It fits.

[Bogey78O]

Mumia 2.

[clintonh8r]

I hope he's tried for all of them, and if convicted, the jury will have the stones to give him death. Otherwise they might as well have had the trial in Mary-land.

[Alberta's Child]

"I do not support this war. What is the point of replacing a tyrant who lives three thousand miles away with a thousand tyrants who live three miles away?"

--- Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), "The Patriot"

[Howlin]

Good lord, you are a mean one, aren't you? He wouldn't even make it across the border!

[Catspaw]

No, Malvo was only charged with one of the murders, that of Linda Franklin.

[Dog Gone]

Good, that's even better.

[ArrogantBustard]

Oh well, He will get his in another trial or in the pen.

Quite. He faces more Virginia charges, plus Maryland, Alabama, Louisiana, Washington State, and Washignton, DC. His prospects seem rather dim, to me.

And those of you dissing my wonderful home State seem to quickly forget what sentence we gave John Muhammad. Y'all grow up.

[eddie willers]

You know the little punk will find a "husband" in prison and live happily ever after with cable TV, three squares a day and his loving honey!

With fine breasts and all the cocaine he can snort...ala Richard Speck.

[Walkin Man]

http://www.itv.com/news/174918.html

Malvo escapes death penalty
9.39PM, 23 Dec 2003

The teenager convicted in the Washington sniper case has escaped the death penalty, but will serve life imprisonment.

A jury has recommended Lee Malvo, 18, be sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Linda Franklin.

She was one of 10 people to die in random killings that terrorised the Washington DC, area in the autumn of 2002.

The eight women and four men convicted Malvo last week on two counts of capital murder for shooting Mrs Franklin, an FBI analyst, as she loaded her car outside a Virginia home improvement store on October 14.

The murder was typical of the series of shootings, which killed 10 people and injured three others around the US capital.

Malvo's accomplice, John Muhammad, 42, was sentenced to death last month for another of the killings.

Defence lawyer Craig Cooley, who earlier appealed to the jury to honour the spirit of the holiday season, patted Malvo on the back after the decision was read out.

I guess that pat on the cold-blooded muslim killers back was for a job well done!

[LisaFab]

Thanks for the ping and love that tagline.

[Congressman Billybob]

Every time you see a verdict where the jury went squish and failed to impose a death penalty on a defendant who richly deserved it, remember who is responsible. It was the SUPREME COURT that rewrote the Constitution and required that juries rather than judges impose the sentence of death.

Remember that for 600 years, first in the English common law and then in the American common law that sentences were handed down by JUDGES, not by JURIES. So reprehensible decisions like the Malvo verdict should be laid at the doorstep of the Supreme Court.

Congressman Billybob

Click here to stick a thumb in the eye of CFR, "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob."

[eddie willers]

Good lord, you are a mean one, aren't you?

I checked and it does violate Cruel and Unusual.
Mea Culpa.

[Southack]

"This Islamofascist Terrorist Sniper will be going into a Federal Penetentiary where he will be protected as a Muslim hero and encouraged to recruit and train more domestic insurgents. Then, in 10 years, a Leftist judge responding to a lawsuit by Erwin Chemurinsky on behalf of the ACLU, will set him free."

Nope. The kid's prints are on the weapon, and the bullet that matches that weapon has already been id'd as being the fatal one for the liquor store victim here in Alabama.

...And we're not shy about executing killer kids.

So send the boy down here for some American justice, Alabama style.

[No Blue States]

"And those of you dissing my wonderful home State "

I wouldnt do that. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, time to enjoy the freedom those at DU think Ashcroft has denied me with the patriot act.

[AmericanInTokyo]

What an absolute outrage. We look so foolish and pourous to outside threats now.

Here's the perp again. Imagine the personal and societal damage he did. I'd like to hear the jurors justify this on 60 Minutes. Very, very sorry for the families. They'll get JUSTICE yet, though.

[Walkin Man]

You musta seen that TV show too eh? I used to think life in prison with no parole was a heavy sentence until I saw that show about Speck.

All the dope, sex and medical attention that scum wanted, even a sex change!!, everyday of his putrid life until he died and went straight to hell.

Paid by the taxpayers of Illinois.

Now I know the death penalty is the only punishment that killers will ever get.