He wanted to kill someone — and did

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | May 21, 2005 | Robyn Adams

[cyborg]

Wow what a fruitcake.

[DUMBGRUNT]

It would be better if I never read this!

[tiamat]

Pure, Unadulterated, Evil.

[Rummyfan]

This is one sick sonofab*tch! He should be put down IMMEDIATELY!

[Burlem]

My thoughts exactly, made my stomach churn....

[Lockbar]

Too bad Rizzo, didn't kill himself when he was 13. I would have saved alot of other people from ever having to know him, especially the kid he murdered.

[claudiustg]

We need to bring back public hanging.

[Drammach]

Fruitcake is good.. I like it..

This guy doesn't deserve to be called fruitcake..

Fruitcake is too good for him..

[cyborg]

I'd call him a loon but that'd be insulting loons... pond scum too ;-)

[TheOtherOne]

I will say it again. There are some defective units that need to be returned to their maker. This guy is at the top of the list. Let's do, and move on.

[Vigilanteman]

You ain't kidding-- and this is a poster boy for reviving the practice. I'd be honored to personally spring the trap-door on a POS like this.

[CGTRWK]

This is why the death penalty is so expensive. No matter how heinous the crime, and how unquestionably guilty the scumbag killer who did it, the scumbag lawyers and other scumbag lawyers in black robes will not be denied their years of semantics games. And we all foot the bill.

This animal needed killed the week of his confession.

[PistolPaknMama]

The sentence was also overturned because of statements State's Attorney John Connelly made during closing arguments.

I may look this up later, but would like to know what statements the prosecutor made that warranted overturning the sentence. Thanks for the post. A sick but fascinating look into the face of evil. I feel like I need a shower now, ugh.

[madprof98]

Pure, Unadulterated, Evil.

The temptation is to say he's crazy, and some posters are already doing that. But the people most likely to buy that are the ones who do not believe there is such a thing as evil, even when it hits them in the head with a sledgehammer.

[Rummyfan]

In 2003, the state Supreme Court overturned that sentence because Judge William Holden did not instruct jurors that aggravating factors had to outweigh mitigating factors beyond a reasonable doubt to make death the appropriate sentence. The sentence was also overturned because of statements State's Attorney John Connelly made during closing arguments.

Can anyone make sense of these reasons for overturning the prior death sentence? Aggravating factors outweighing mitigating factors and statements the prosecutor made during the trial?????

[BBell]

For what it's worth, I think I recall he was bootd from the Corp.

[lilylangtree]

Sounds like this perp existed without any emotion in his whole life except when he thought he was engaged to a high school girl. Only then did he feel something. (shutter)