Peterson Verdict--Penalty Phase

[wndysfrnd]

11:37 a.m. PT: Verdict reached.

Court TV learns that a verdict has been reached and will be announced at 1:30 p.m. PT.—

[buttrfli]

Will someone post the verdict? I will be picking up kids when it is announced.

[Urban Cowgirl]

anyone know....is that 3:30 central?tia

[wndysfrnd]

anyone know....is that 3:30 central?tia


Yes, 3:30 central.

[fatesfaery]

He got the death penalty

[Alura]

Death!

[firechick]

Well, I for one am glad. I pray for both families but Scott I have felt from the day the announced Lacy was missing that Scott was GUILTY. May God comfort both families. His family especially needs comfort through this as they WILL KNOW when thier son, brother ect... will DIE. It's an awful situation....
Kelly

[buglebe]

That's too bad. I had read that if he got death he will be in a cell by himself on death row for probably 20 years. If he got life it would have been worse because he would have been in a cell the size of a king size bed with another person and that he would have to be constantly watching his back. I wanted the worse for him. I'm not usually a revengeful person but in this case he needs to be punished.

[kaysee]

Well, I for one am glad. I pray for both families but Scott I have felt from the day the announced Lacy was missing that Scott was GUILTY. May God comfort both families. His family especially needs comfort through this as they WILL KNOW when thier son, brother ect... will DIE. It's an awful situation....
Kelly


i dotn see how nay of us can be 100% sure, none of us were there and didnt hear 100% of the evidence!!! May God be with these jurors as thye will have to live with this decision the rest of their lives. the death penelty hould not be around!!! It costs more to kill them than to keep them in prision till death
I am now leaving this thread, dont wanna heta anything up just needed to state that.

[cleaningla]

It was just on the radio that there are 600 people on death row in California and the execute an average of one person per year. They said he will most likely die a natural death in prison.

Don't see how they could execute a person on the basis of circumstantial evidence.

[rlynn411]

From what I understand the jury has "recommended" the death panalty. But it will be the judge who will make the final decision on rather he will get the death penalty.... the judge can decide to rule differently.

[Jolie Rouge]

It was just on the radio that there are 600 people on death row in California and the execute an average of one person per year. They said he will most likely die a natural death in prison.

Peterson still might not be executed for decades, if ever. That is because California's death row has grown to house more than 640 condemned men and women since the state brought back capital punishment in 1978. Since then, only 10 executions have been carried out. It can take years for even the first phase of the appeals process to begin.

California's last execution was on Jan. 29, 2002, when Stephen Wayne Anderson — described by supporters as the poet laureate of Death Row — was put to death by lethal injection for the Memorial Day 1980 murder of 81-year-old Elizabeth Lyman during a break-in at her home.

As many as three murderers face possible execution in 2005, said Department of Corrections spokeswoman Margot Bach.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20041213/ap_on_re_us/laci_peterson



Don't see how they could execute a person on the basis of circumstantial evidence.

SO we should reward him for committing ALMOST the "perfect crime" ?

He made sure that he didn't have an audience and got rid of the most incriminating evidence... but not all.

His actions told a story all their own.
He told friends that he had found Lacey missing when he came back from golfing - until someone blew his alibi; then he said spent the day fishing ( but no one saw him at the marina and his fishing gear & lures where still NIB ? ) He tried to put their home on the market when Lacey had been missing only a few weeks -- because he knew she wasn't coming back.

[wndysfrnd]

In my personal opinion, I would rather see him do life. Put him in general population. He would die a lot quicker than on death row.
Just my two cents.