Posted on 01/03/2005 1:58:14 AM PST by nickcarraway
Joanne Baribeault Welch wants to look into Michael Ross' eyes when they strap him into the death gurney. She wants to see the needle disappear into his arm.
And she wants to see the life drain from his body.
"It'll be good for him," says Welch, 45, whose sister Wendy Baribeault was 17 when she was raped and strangled in 1984 by Ross, an Ivy League serial killer who is waiting to die on Connecticut's gone-to-seed Death Row.
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Sorry, but I'll never understand why convicted criminals are permitted to turn themselves into celebrities while in jail.
At last, something I can admire about the SSCT.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
TWENTY-ONE YEARS.
Stand by for a tsunami of tears for this poor, maligned victim of society's bloodlust. In fact, I won't believe he'd dead until the coroner screws him into the ground.
Hopefully this will pave the way for the other dirtballs on CT death row to also be executed. At least 3 are black though, and their victims were white. So expect a lot of whining and moaning over the unfair application of the DP, etc etc.
Yesterday's Hartford Courant had an article about the last guy executed in CT in 1960. He had already been convicted of murder and sentenced to death, then the sentence was overturned and he was released. This left him free to slaughter 6 more people. If they had just ended his life the first time, there would have been no more victims. I was sickened at reading that article.
So in at least one way, the DP *is* a deterrent to crime. The killers don't strike again.
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