Posted on 12/08/2004 4:07:47 PM PST by stm
I freakin' love it......"He's an exceptional young man and he's my son," she said. "I know he's not perfect ... but he is genuinely a loving, caring, nurturing, kind, gentle person.".....to everyone except his 9 month pregnat wife and unborn child that is....he killed them in cold blood. Apart from that small detail he's a wonderful person!!!
A frail-looking Jackie Peterson (search) tearfully pleaded with jurors Wednesday to spare her son's life, saying that "if you were to take Scott away from us ... we would lose a whole family."
"It would be like Laci never existed," she said, crying so hard at times she was unintelligible.
While defense lawyers flashed Peterson family photographs on a large screen, Jackie Peterson, who uses a portable oxygen tank for a lung ailment, begged jurors to see the good in her son.
"He's an exceptional young man and he's my son," she said. "I know he's not perfect ... but he is genuinely a loving, caring, nurturing, kind, gentle person."
Scott Peterson (search) wiped tears from his eyes as his mother testified.
Defense lawyers are trying to convince jurors that Peterson deserves life in prison, not the death penalty.
The 32-year-old former fertilizer salesman was convicted Nov. 12 of two counts of murder for killing his pregnant wife, Laci, and her fetus.
Prosecutors say he killed Laci in their Modesto home on or around Christmas Eve 2002, then dumped her body into San Francisco Bay. The remains of Laci and the fetus were discovered about four months later near where Peterson claims to have been fishing alone the day his wife vanished
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Still not getting any compassion from me.
He's the kindest, sweetest murderer you'd ever want to meet.
After all, it's his first offense. And he's such a nice, sweet, boy. Always helping people. I'm sure that little matter of the murders was just a one-time slip. So out of character...
Its like those two that killed their parents and asked for mercy because they were orphans.
The mom would have had a family if he hadn't killed them.
This reminds me of the man who killed his parents and then begged the mercy of the court because he was an orphan.
Had she put some sense of Right and Wrong into the boy she raised she could be bouncing baby Conner on he knee right now.
Hey man this is California, he ain't about to Die. He might live in a rather secure facility for the rest of his p.o.s. life but hey Charlie Manson didn't die in California.
In Texas this piece of garbbage would go in about 3 years.
'"It would be like Laci never existed," she said.'
I'm sure Laci's parents will disagree. Scott didn't learn how to be a manipulative liar on his own. Judging by her comments, Mrs. Peterson is at the very least manipulative. I still don't believe she needs oxygen 24/7. I remember seeing a picture of her and her husband after the murders, and she had no oxygen and looked quite fit. Something is very wrong with that family.
This is one scary two faced animal. Sorry mom has the hoses in her nose. Mom shouldn't have lied on the witness stand for him. I guess that is where he get's it.
I know he killed his wife and my grandchild, but honestly, "HE'S A GOOD BOOOYYYY".
Bluch. Fry his a**.
Yea, I don't think genuinely, loving, caring, nurturing, kind, gentle people murder their pregnant wives and dump the bodies in the ocean.
This scumbag needs to get the "juice".
That's still better than he deserves. Although I admire your compassion.
Use the loooonnnngggg rubber hose!
Except for killing his wife and child, having multiple affairs, telling one of his affairs that his wife was dead, lying every stinking day of his life, dying his hair, buying a car and telling the seller that his own name was Jaqueline, and possibly setting up Amber to be killed in the mountians, he was a very good boy.
C'mon....I want the obligatory neighbor!
The only reason bottom-feeding scum-sucking Manson is still alive, sadly, is that the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the death penalty in '72 and everyone's sentences (including Charlie and his minions') were commuted to life with parole. Unfortunately, when California reinstated the Death Penalty, Manson couldn't go back and sit on death row.
I hope that Scut-butt Peterson doesn't get the death penalty. I hope the prison officials say "sorry, shithead, no solitary for you, and then stick him in the general population at San Quentin and let those inmates have their way with him. That way pretty boy and be somebody's bitch before they stick a shiv in him.
His whole family makes me sick. The public isn't being fooled by this crapola fest and from all indications, the jury isn't buying it, either.
Although most of me wants to see this guy get the ultimate penalty, perhaps spending the rest of his life being passed around as a "prison bitch" by dozens of big, ugly cons would be a fitting future, too.
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