Posted on 03/01/2005 7:47:06 PM PST by KidGlock
Today: March 01, 2005 at 19:43:10 PST
Teen Sniper No Longer Faces Death Penalty
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Tuesday barring the execution of juvenile killers means Lee Boyd Malvo can no longer face the death penalty for his role in the 2002 Washington sniper case or other slayings around the country.
Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, has already been convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole for two of the murders. Prosecutors had planned to try him in other jurisdictions in hopes of obtaining a death sentence.
However, Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert said that in light of the ruling, he would not pursue another conviction against Malvo.
"I see no need to go to the expense and the trouble," Ebert said.
Malvo also faced the possibility of a death sentence in Alabama and Louisiana, where he and accomplice John Allen Muhammad are charged with other slayings.
In Louisiana, East Baton Rouge District Attorney Doug Moreau said his office would still seek to prosecute Malvo for the slaying of Hong Im Ballenger, who was gunned down in Baton Rouge in the weeks before the sniper spree. "Obviously, we can't seek the death penalty," Moreau said.
In Alabama, Montgomery County District Attorney Ellen Brooks said she still plans to prosecute Malvo in the 2002 slaying of a liquor store manager. "I'm just waiting my turn," she said.
Muhammad is already on death row in Virginia.
Malvo was convicted in Fairfax County in 2003 of murdering FBI analyst Linda Franklin in one of the 10 sniper killings over a three-week span in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
In October, Malvo pleaded guilty to a slaying in Spotsylvania County; prosecutors agreed in return not to pursue the death penalty there. He was given another life sentence.
Virginia had been chosen to prosecute Malvo first because it permitted the death penalty for 17-year-olds, while Maryland did not.
The ruling Tuesday also means that Malvo, now 20, is free to give a full account of his crimes without fear of additional punishment. His lawyers have hinted that Malvo might be willing to come clean if the death penalty were no longer an option.
Cheryll Witz, whose father was fatally shot on an Arizona golf course in 2002, hopes Malvo will now confess to that crime. Malvo and Muhammad have long been suspects in the slaying of Jerry Taylor, but authorities have not charged the pair for lack of evidence.
"I want him to say if he killed my father," Witz said in a telephone interview. "Until you have a definitive answer, you don't have closure."
wait on the alabama case. years from now, a different SCOTUS might rule the other way, then they can go back and try Malvo in alabama and execute him.
Couldn't we just get closure by throwing him off an overpass?
In a just world, he'd be hanging from a limb.
Get someone in prison to take care of it.
I forgot about this, but this illustrates the point I was making to someone earlier today regarding the SC ruling.
Imagine terrorists just paying muslim teens or other degenerates to carry out attacks against America..they can now do so without the harshest penalty.
A big "Thank You" is in order for the international law citing degenerates!!! THE STENCH FROM THE BENCH!!!!!!!
ping
Perhaps that special form of justice that is dealt in penitentiary's will remedy this erroneous ruling. Not now, not next week or necessarily next month - but someday, a la Jeffrey Dahmer, some criminal will take care of the business the state (in Dahmer's case) wouldn't or, as in this recent case, because of the judiciary, couldn't.
That is true.
But Stellar's point in post six is a concern too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353907/posts?page=6#6
hell put him in a cell with wacko jacko
They are no F'n snipers...
Cross linking similar topic: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1353917/posts
From: Bubba
Incoming pain.
My prediction is that Malvo will be back on the street in 20 years.
I think they should kill him to put him out of his misery. Over 80 years in a max-security prison is gonna suck. Haha.
"Say wa?" "Yeah, id wah duh old dude. He made me done it! Like, you kno, I's too young to kno bedda." (/snicker)
My prediction is that Malvo will be back on the street in 20 years.Well we can always hope for an opportune shiv.
Maybe what we should do is set up a fan club for jailbird executioners that take out pederast Priests and psychopathic killers.
Let the monster eat itself.
As a hero to the new leaders of the United States if we do not learn to fight Islam instead of "embrace" it.
Malvo would make for good target practice.
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