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Jurors: Death for Fla. Girl's Killer
AP ^ | 3 minutes ago

Posted on 12/01/2005 5:34:32 PM PST by BenLurkin

SARASOTA, Fla. - Joseph Smith should be executed for kidnapping, raping and murdering Carlie Brucia, the 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a surveillance camera and broadcast around the world, a jury recommended Thursday.

Jurors deliberated five hours before arriving at their recommendation, voting 10-2 for the death penalty. Circuit Judge Andrew Owens ultimately will issue the sentence, as early as next month. Under the law, he must give great weight to the jury's choice before imposing a sentence of death or life in prison without parole.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: carliebrucia; deathsentence; killhim; sexoffender
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To: robertpaulsen
I thought it was Terri that did not want to live that way.

A doctor killed Terri through Michael's exploitation of state policy. She left scant evidence of her own wishes.

21 posted on 12/01/2005 6:01:55 PM PST by SteveMcKing ("No empire collapses because of technical reasons. They collapse because they are unnatural.")
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To: river rat
Plus the scumbag has a lengthy criminal history, several times liberal judges let him back on the streets.

It's time for Ol' Sparky to come out of retirement, and fry this creep like that one dude in "The Green Mile," in which the skull cap was dry.

22 posted on 12/01/2005 6:02:14 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (JOE WILSON IS A MUTHAFAKING LIAR)
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To: BenLurkin

Just think. This lucky guy's name will go in the hat to be heralded by the Liberal MSM as being the star of the 2000th execution! It could happen with the appeals and all.


23 posted on 12/01/2005 6:03:55 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's no coincidence that the Democrat mascot is a jackass.)
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To: SteveMcKing
"She left scant evidence of her own wishes."

Scant???

The judge stated he had "clear and convincing evidence" as to Terri's wishes, as told to him in sworn testimony by three different people when relating three different occassions.

The doctor allowed Terri to die by removing the surgically implanted feeding tube.

Take your propaganda elsewhere.

24 posted on 12/01/2005 6:11:07 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: BenLurkin

So two jurors think kidnapping, raping and killing is OK? Those two jurors are evil!


25 posted on 12/01/2005 6:11:36 PM PST by ConservativeChinese (I'm a Chinese, no affirmative action needed, thank you.)
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To: BenLurkin
And now the media wants to murder the little girl all over again by demanding to see the photos of the crime scene.

They feel they have the right to see her battered body.

DAMN THE MEDIA TO HELL FOR ALL TIME

26 posted on 12/01/2005 6:12:33 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: robertpaulsen

? Think again.


27 posted on 12/01/2005 6:13:17 PM PST by trustandobey (Delay -Johnson 2008)
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To: BunnySlippers
Didn't Tookie wait 24 years?

Hell, he's still room temp, and has an "important meeting" with the governor this coming Tuesday!

28 posted on 12/01/2005 6:15:09 PM PST by ErnBatavia (403-3)
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To: Normal4me

"Ping me in 2016 and we'll celebrate when this pos dies finally."

11 years from now?!?!?! By the standards in place that would mean he is on a fast track.


29 posted on 12/01/2005 6:16:56 PM PST by commonasdirt (Reading DU so you won't hafta)
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To: robertpaulsen; SteveMcKing

She shoulda had it in writing...I think that's Steve's point.


30 posted on 12/01/2005 6:18:19 PM PST by ErnBatavia (403-3)
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To: ErnBatavia

Tookie won't be there, only his attorneys.


31 posted on 12/01/2005 6:18:43 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: trustandobey
"? Think again."

After rethinking, I've concluded that Terri that did not want to live that way.

32 posted on 12/01/2005 6:23:34 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: UB355

Average 12.74 years.


33 posted on 12/01/2005 6:24:04 PM PST by GatorGirl
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To: BenLurkin

It doesn't have to be unanimous for death penalty verdicts?


34 posted on 12/01/2005 6:25:45 PM PST by Teacher317
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To: ConservativeChinese

Just because they thought execution was inappropriate in this case does not mean they condone his acts. There's no need to stretch the truth, here.


35 posted on 12/01/2005 6:29:20 PM PST by Teacher317
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To: robertpaulsen

Fortunately, your thoughts and mine are meaningless where the willful termination of a third party is concerned.


36 posted on 12/01/2005 6:30:27 PM PST by Teacher317
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To: robertpaulsen
the lovely three who testified were
Micheal and his relatives !
mike's brother , sister in-law, and good mike
who just happened to win a 1 million settlement
months before.
mike and his relatives said the now died one made a comment while watching a movie about " Karen Ann Quinlen".
So robert be careful about your commentary around your in laws during the holiday !
37 posted on 12/01/2005 6:30:28 PM PST by BurtTpa
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To: river rat
Perhaps the two jurors are rapists as well, and fear that one day they may be in the same situation as the murderer. A stretch, but one must wonder when you consider what that poor, helpless child went through before her death.
38 posted on 12/01/2005 6:36:36 PM PST by This Just In ("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
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To: UB355
Found this, part of a Jan. 2000 article from Orland newspaper:

Most legislators agree Florida should abandon its 75-year reliance on the electric chair as the state's sole means of capital punishment. But the 3-day session may become bogged down by Gov. Jeb Bush's demand that lawmakers also shorten the appeals process for condemned inmates, who now spend an average 14 years on death row.

39 posted on 12/01/2005 6:43:13 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down)
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To: BenLurkin

Good, it makes me sick to think of that poor little girl


40 posted on 12/01/2005 6:44:13 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down)
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