Posted on 07/18/2009 11:14:19 AM PDT by freespirited
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A jury has convicted an imprisoned sex offender of murder in the 1975 strangulation death of a Girl Scout in Tennessee.
Nine-year-old Marcia Trimble disappeared while delivering Girl Scout cookies in her Nashville neighborhood, and her body was found near her home 33 days later.
A jury on Saturday convicted 62-year-old Jerome Barrett of two counts of second-degree murder. He faces 44 years in prison on each count in this case. Barrett is currently serving a life sentence for the 1975 rape and murder of a Vanderbilt University student.
The Girl Scout killing is considered Nashville's most notorious crime in decades. Barrett became a suspect in the girl's death more than a year ago as a result of DNA testing. The jury took about eight hours to deliberate.
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I can think of a more suitable fate.
Immediate execution would do it.
Immediate, means just showing up at his cell with the death warrant in hand, drag him out and finish it.
I wonder if this animal had a long criminal record before he murdered a 9 yr old girl. I’d guess he did, and should have been in prison in 1975.
Life in a limited but protected cell for these monsters is simply wrong.
Harvest any usable organs first.
Maybe he’ll get Dahmered.
Looks fat, happy and healthy after his 34 yrs of state-paid housing. He should have been dead 34 years ago.
That shouldn’t be an option IMO. Strangling and raping a nine year old? Life in protected cells. Protected from the outside more than anything.
Those were very bad days. Earl Warren and company had pronounced open season on the citizenry for three decades, freeing heinous criminals on technicalities. The crimes were horrible throughout the late sixties, seventies, and early eighties, until Reagan re-established the federal judiciary. Richard Speck, Charles Manson, The Hillside Stranglers, you name it...
We had our own tragedy in Arizona, a young paper girl named Christy Ann Fornoff, who delivered her papers to the wrong door one day. Her mother was the epitome of grace. She had named her daughter Christy Ann, for “Christian.”
In Oklahoma, in 1976, I believe, several young girl scouts were kidnapped while on a camping trip. I’ll spare you the details.
In the seventies, every day these horror stories were quite common. People think that the election of Reagan was confined to the economy and Iranian hostages. In those days, I wouldn’t let my wife and daughter go to the market at night.
We really don’t have a death penalty. And we give these monsters a little shot on the rare occasions we use it. Sickening.
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