Hell Raizer Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 [URL=http://]http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/13/peterson.case/index.html[/URL] Yep, the jury found Scott guily. He'll be put to death by lethal injection. I personally think they made the right decision Post Your Opinions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moi Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 I do agree with their decision. Scott Peterson was definitely guilty, and he deserves death. I think that he should get firing squad, but oh well. He is getting off easy compared to what he deserves, that lousy bastard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doukeshi Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Oh come on there have been worse crimes. Anyway, the death sentence is getting off lightly in opinion. It isn't really punishment its just a way of getting rid of a criminal so you don't have to think about them anymore. There are far more inventive things one could think up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miryoku Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [quote name='doukeshi03']Oh come on there have been worse crimes. Anyway, the death sentence is getting off lightly in opinion. It isn't really punishment its just a way of getting rid of a criminal so you don't have to think about them anymore. There are far more inventive things one could think up.[/quote] yeah, they should just dress him in neon colors, smother him in pollen, and lock him in a room filled with Japanese giant hornets. Bwa ha ha ha I love the way my mind works. :devil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [quote name='Miryoku']Bwa ha ha ha I love the way my mind works. :devil:[/quote][size=1]That makes one of us. I had not heard about the story until I read the article you provided. It's very...upsetting. I don't understand why anyone would do that. My heart goes out to the members of both families. I can't imagine how difficult that would be to go through. you're not surprised by me at all, Sara[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShinje Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [size=1][color=Teal] I'm opposed tot he death penalty under any circumstance. Most of that stems form my Christian upbringing "He who is without sin cast the first stone" and the Bible's idea of forgiveness for everyone, no matter what the crime. All sin is the same under God. I do believe, however, he should be sentenced to life in a correctional facility. I'm not advocating murderers andsociopaths just walk away with no punishment, lol.[/color][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigervx Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [FONT=Arial][COLOR=Teal] I already heard about this, I really wasn't surprised on how, well, evil this crime was. I can't really find another word to describe it. I mean, murdering your wife and future child? What's wrong with you. Course, I already heard about it. I live in Sacramento so it was on the Local News =P. I do however think its rather strange how the media overhyped this so very much. I mean, there are murders just like this all over the US, but we don't hear about them. None the less, justice is serviced, and I don't have any complaints.[/COLOR][/FONT] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Samedi Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [size=1]Personally, I think there are worse things than 'death'. For one, solitary confinement from all human contact combined with life in prison. Sound good? I didn't think so. What is there to say? He isn't paying the ultimate punishment.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiba_the_Chosen Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 As a person who actually cares for peoples' souls, good or bad, I believe that the death penalty by injection is to painless for him. His wife was stabbed. She was bleeding all over the floor. What I'm trying to say is that his wife was in pain when she died. He will have no pain delt to him if he is senteced to death from lethal injection. If they want him to feel pain he should be put into a high security prison with the world's most murderous psyco killers of all time. That to me would be the right punishment. If he dies in there it is not the government's fault. Life sentence in a place like that would be tourture. If you object I don't mind. I'm half insane myself. I believe what I believe and tourture is the right way to go. Tourture from mentally ill murderous phychos hmmmm... : off daze : :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathBug Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 You know, this actually restores a belief in the criminal justice system that's been wonky since the OJ Simpson trial. An obviously guilty man getting the death sentence for violently killing his wife and unborn child? Who'd a' thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Break Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [size=1]Is anyone going to comment on how long it takes for the sentence to be carried out? In that article it said that the last person executed had been executed 22 years after their crime. Why let them live that long? I say get rid of them straight away; America should take a leaf out of Thailand's book, regarding capital punishment. But yeah. Good he's finally got it coming.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [color=#811C3A]Primarily, I'm just glad that this trial is over as a result of the insane media coverage of it. I can't help but wonder how many other things have gone uncovered due to this trial. Anyway, I don't really care much about the verdict, except to say that I don't think death is harsh enough. It's painless and the easy way out. I'd rather have him rot in prison for his entire life, with everything that it brings (ie: the violence and other things). At least that'd give him a taste of what he did to his poor wife and son.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Harris Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [QUOTE=James][color=#811C3A]Primarily, I'm just glad that this trial is over as a result of the insane media coverage of it. I can't help but wonder how many other things have gone uncovered due to this trial. Anyway, I don't really care much about the verdict, except to say that I don't think death is harsh enough. It's painless and the easy way out. I'd rather have him rot in prison for his entire life, with everything that it brings (ie: the violence and other things). At least that'd give him a taste of what he did to his poor wife and son.[/color][/QUOTE] Yep. I personally really never cared much about this trial. I wished that justice would be done, but other than that I felt the media spent an incredibly disproportionate amount of time on one story. Why? Simple answer. It was entertaining, and boosted ratings. Reporters would gleefully relish every complication. Many, many people die from murder every year, and they don't get to be the central news story of the year. This was a terrible act which the media turned into a circus. They should be ashamed. Something I find interesting about this whole case is the level of outrage expressed over the death of the unborn child (it's second degree murder), but many of these same shocked people would be in favor of abortion. Does that make any logical sense? Either killing an unborn child is second degree murder or it's not, in my opinion. You can't have it both ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retribution Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [quote name='doukeshi03']There are far more inventive things one could think up.[/quote] Most of the time, 'inventive' ways to punish people is called cruel and unusual, something we don't do here in the US to criminals, no matter how much they deserve it. He deserved to die. And he deserves to die cruelly and unusually, but then again, we [i]shouldnt sink to his level, yadda yadda yadda.[/i] I think torture is out of the question, however. Maybe give him 35 years in prison, and then put him to death, no bail, no other cases. Draw out his punishment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [quote name='James][color=#811C3A']Anyway, I don't really care much about the verdict, except to say that I don't think death is harsh enough. It's painless and the easy way out. I'd rather have him rot in prison for his entire life, with everything that it brings (ie: the violence and other things). At least that'd give him a taste of what he did to his poor wife and son.[/color][/quote][size=1]Well, as Break pointed out, [quote=the article above]California's death row has grown to house about 650 condemned men and women since the state restored capital punishment in 1978, according to the AP. Only 10 executions have been carried out since then. The last one was in 2002 -- for a murder that happened 22 years earlier.[/quote]So unless things change drastically, it basically amounts to a long sentence with a rather unhopeful end. trix are for kids, Sara[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retribution Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Why does it take so long for them to kick it? I think my dad said that their lawyers keep making appeals or something like that to keep stalling. Believe that everyone on death row should get ONE case more to prove their innocence. There are plenty of people who are innnocent on death row, therefore the case thing might save a few of them... maybe not. Then again, the case thing sounds bad. Never mind. And they should all be put to death in a week or something like that, to get them out of the system. I mean, since 1978? C'mon! That's WAY too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven's Cloud Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [color=indigo]I don't favor the death penalty ever. It costs us (Americans) way too much money. I think that it would be a much more fitting punishment if Peterson was locked in a maximum security prison and allowed to mingle mith the general population. A pretty boy like him wouldn't last too long mingling with the rest of the prison. Maybe thirty or fourty years of that kind of treatment would be a fair punishment.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Break Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [size=1]I could assure you it costs more to accomodate a murderer in prison for 35 years than it does to shoot them in the head weeks after the trial.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathKnight Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 [color=crimson][quote name='Lore']So unless things change drastically, it basically amounts to a long sentence with a rather unhopeful end.[/quote] Send him to Texas. Texas- Killing people right since 1836. [quote name='Shinje (SIC)']and the Bible's idea of forgiveness for everyone, no matter what the crime.[/quote] I dunno what Bible *you* were reading but.. err, I mean. Forgiveness for everyone! Wee. :D I was pretty out of the loop with this story- I didn't care. The whole drama of it didn't really appeal to me- but with all the media coverage assaulting you at every turn, I know the basic gist of events up to now. I think it is pretty obvious he probably 'deserves' something more violent than a humane way out- isn't there a type of torture or execution that involves cutting someone many times over in order to make them painfully/slowly bleed to death? I forget it's proper name- cut of a thousand knives? Something like that. That sounds pretty good.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onix Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 [QUOTE=Heaven's Cloud][color=indigo]I don't favor the death penalty ever. It costs us (Americans) way too much money. I think that it would be a much more fitting punishment if Peterson was locked in a maximum security prison and allowed to mingle mith the general population. A pretty boy like him wouldn't last too long mingling with the rest of the prison. Maybe thirty or fourty years of that kind of treatment would be a fair punishment.[/color][/QUOTE] [COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1]I assure you, he wouldn't make it 30 years. Child killers (even, in this case, unborn) are the lowest of the low, even in prison. He'd be lying dead on the floor with a shiv in his gut in a week. Tops. And, as many others have said, can't we get this over with yet? Give Cops some more air time on Court TV already. I'd rather watch some drunken white-trash get slammed to the ground by a couple of Detroit's finest then this media circus. And I hate Cops. About the Death Penalty being too good for him? I dunno. Either way, he's dead. It's just a matter of time and pain. -ULX[/SIZE][/COLOR] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 [QUOTE=Unborn Lord Xion][COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1]Either way, he's dead. It's just a matter of time and pain. -ULX[/SIZE][/COLOR][/QUOTE][size=1]And that's true for all of us, really. xoxoxoxoxoxo, Sara[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Samedi Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 [size=1]Even though he'll be in prison for years to come, I cannot help but feel that the death penalty is insufficent means to convey the level of punishment that this man deserves. I would once again like to re-iterate a small cell, and no human contact. For the rest of his life.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkOtakuBoy Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 [quote name='Moi']I do agree with their decision. Scott Peterson was definitely guilty, and he deserves death. I think that he should get firing squad, but oh well. He is getting off easy compared to what he deserves, that lousy bastard![/quote] I may be wrong about this, but I heard somewhere years ago that theres actually a state that still implements the firing squad. In any case, I'm 100% against any form of capital punishment. I dont agree with a government that can take your life away. Whenever I hear about 'Justice' all I can think is,"wow...thats a really rose-colored word for 'Revenge' " I know its not a very popular stance, but I just agree so strongly with every sentient being's right to exist. And aside from that, life in prision, away from society would be a better more harsh punishment for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 [QUOTE=James][color=#811C3A]Primarily, I'm just glad that this trial is over as a result of the insane media coverage of it. I can't help but wonder how many other things have gone uncovered due to this trial. Anyway, I don't really care much about the verdict, except to say that I don't think death is harsh enough. It's painless and the easy way out. I'd rather have him rot in prison for his entire life, with everything that it brings (ie: the violence and other things). At least that'd give him a taste of what he did to his poor wife and son.[/color][/QUOTE] Well, he probably will rot in prison anyways. Compared to all the people actually on death row, there are very few who actually get put to death. His lawyers will keep on appealing, heh. Of course it really only depends on the other people in prison. Other in prison don't really like those who murder kids. I myself believe he was guilty yes, but I didn't think that they would actually prove it. Some of the evidence was wishy washy in my mind. Like how they were using his grammer against him, lol. On an interview he said "she was a good woman." And everyone went, "omfg he is so guilty because he spoke of her in the past tense." *shrug* If I didn't believe he was guilty all ready, I would have just believe that it was a man who lost his wife and child, and with no ransom was obviously not going to be coming back to him. But hey, I'm happy it finally was over with as well. Don't see why it had to be all hyped up as well. :rolleyes: Edit: Crud, didn't see Xions post. >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retribution Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 [quote name='Baron Samedi][size=1'] ... a small cell, and no human contact. For the rest of his life.[/size][/quote] Well said, man. Solitary confinement would be an awesome punishment. For all you pacifists, he won't die, and for all you who want serious punishement, he wouldn't seen ANYONE. EVER. It would be cool if they just put his meals through a little hole, so he wouldn't see anyone, throw in a few rubber duckies, and let'em go nuts for the next 50 years of his life. Maybe a weekly lashing would be nice. Maybe 10 across the back, and as his pain tolerance grows, so will the lashes. But alas, tis cruel & unusual, so we can't. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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