Well, the verdict is in..............

[mark]

................here's a cut & paste from the top story in the news today:



A crowd of several hundred gathered outside the San Mateo County Courthouse broke out in cheers and scattered applause after the sentencing verdict was broadcast. The scene was reminiscent of the guilty verdicts on Nov. 12, when about 1,000 people descended on the streets outside, most of them erupting in support of the jury's decision.

Here's the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141341,00.html

Well, I have a few comments to make. I'm in favor of the death penalty because it is the final " accountability of one's responsibility " for the guilty.

So, I have a few questions to throw out for comment.

1. Why is this case so popular & in the press all summer long?? I'm sure that others has killed their wife & unborn child before.

2. Most of us reading this has heard of the N.O.W. organization before, right?? ( it's the group that is suppose to be looking out for the best interest in women ) so........Here's an interesting question.

3. Where is the N.O.W. gang on this one?? I've heard NOTHING from anyone in this group. Aren't they suppose to be looking out for Lacy Peterson's best interests??
( I'm sure they won't recognize the small child involved )



Comments?? .................see ya Mark

[kcredden]

I've asked the very same thing. Why is it so popular? After all, every day I'm sure there is some other lady getting killed. I wish I had an answer. But in a way, I'm sick of the televised courts. It almost reminds me of the public executions we was 'suppose' to outgrow. True, no one is getting executed in these shows, but it still leaves a very sour taste in my mouth.

It's almost like justice is nothing but entertainment for the masses. Are americans so in need of 'bread and circuses' that we will look and use anything as entertainment? Wonder when public executions will be back again?

[kybikertrash]

There was a lot of circumstantial evidence in this case, sure there was physical evidence but not much that could be completely 100% pinned on Scott.

Don't get me wrong I think he's guilty, but what I'd like to know is how did OJ walk while Scott got convicted?

[mark]

........OJ has more money & fame, that's how he got away with it..........see ya Mark

[pevans8130]

Mark,

I do not believe we have the right to make this choice of death. I know the

saying , "an eye for an eye" or in this case a death (two) for a death. I have always

had good christian morals, and I believe that only God can take a life. This is my

beleif, however, I'm sure he got what was coming to him.

I too think that this case has been over broadcasted. People seem to get a big kick

out of other people's misery. I think it is sad to think that people don't have anything

better to do but watch that stupid T.V. However, my husband loves it, go figure.

Money has always talked and always will.

[gleroyjr]

oj walked because he was black. the city was afraid that there would be another riot in the city if he was convicted.

[acoolmom777]

I think Scott should of got “life” (I do believe he did it) it’s just without a murder weapon I can’t see putting him to death....If they had the weapon with his finger prints...I would say fry him until well done. He is one sick puppy.

[kcredden]

Pevans:

I tend to agree with you:


I too think that this case has been over broadcasted. People seem to get a big kick out of other people's misery. I think it is sad to think that people don't have anything better to do but watch that stupid T.V. However, my husband loves it, go figure. Money has always talked and always will.

I've thought before, that the justice system is turning out to be the next thing for entertainment, instead of doing what it's suppose to do; dispense justice. I remember onetime where the judge slapped an order on a case banning cameras, and someone in the entertainment industry said "People demaind to see this" Right...people demand, or is it the money making industry does? Personally I have no desire to watch TV anymore aside from very few programs. Even then, I time-shift them, so I can fast-foward though the commericals. There is so many, plus they keep playing the same ones over and again, I wouldn't buy what they're hawking anyway.

I hear though, that the internet is cutting into TV viewing. Aww...too bad.

[mark]

........................the internet has done 1 thing for sure...it has cut into MY TV time. Excepting for channels like the history channel & others like that with documentaries, TV really gotten to the point it treats you like mind numb idiots. I have even dropped my mid-range cable service & went back to the 2-13 channel basic cable.
Remember the OJ trial??
I agree with one thing, when the TV cameras are present in the courtroom, the trial stuff goes out the window & a "show" begins.

Just look at shows like "Divorce Court" & the "People's Court". Those shows are a joke anymore..................see ya Mark

[kcredden]

That's where we agree, 100% Mark. I have CNN, Headline news, History channel, Discovery, A&E, AMC, and Sci-fi, on almost exclusively. Spike only for Star Trek: DS9, and ST:TNG (which is timeshifted cause I'm usually at work then.) Food Channel, just sometimes. (I do like "Unwrapped" but it's a sort of documentry.) RARELY do I watch the networks even then it has to be something special. Aside from them, if they had a way of having only the channels I wanted (mentioned above) that's all I'd pay for.

The internet has it's bad side, its' red-light district, but it's got a lot of good, AND intelligent programming. One beauty of it is; the big boys can't just dominate it to the point places like the MaysvillekyBBS, and other intelligent places are pushed off. This is like the NPR, or X-Star network on radio.

........................the internet has done 1 thing for sure...it has cut into MY TV time. Excepting for channels like the history channel & others like that with documentaries, TV really gotten to the point it treats you like mind numb idiots. I have even dropped my mid-range cable service & went back to the 2-13 channel basic cable.
Remember the OJ trial??
I agree with one thing, when the TV cameras are present in the courtroom, the trial stuff goes out the window & a "show" begins.

Just look at shows like "Divorce Court" & the "People's Court". Those shows are a joke anymore..................see ya Mark

[kybikertrash]

Getting back to the death penalty....I saw on the news yesterday where a serial killer convicted of killing, I think, 13 women had confessed in exchange for life in prison instead of the death penalty.

That was back in the 70's and just recently he was going to be released because he quailfied for a shorter sentence due to "good behavior".

Now the state he had murdered the women in could do nothing but a victims advocate went back to the state he lived in proir to the murders and had the police in the town he lived in re-open all unsolved murders during the time he lived there.

Thank goodness they found a murder that they could charge him for and so he was sent there to be tried and found guilty. Now he is serving another "life sentence" for that murder in that state.

That is the problem with a life sentence, sometimes it doesn't mean life. This man by his own admission years ago said if he was relesed he would probably kill again and they were about to set him free.

I think the death penalty in his case would have been the best choice, only it wasn't an option because of his co-operation in the case.

[mark]

........................for any serial killers found guilty, the death penalty shouldn't be compromised for the very reason stated above.

We don't want any more Ted Bundy's running around out there do we??.............see ya Mark

[navywife]

I don't believe in "good behavior and life sentences" I think if you get a life sentence you should be immediately executed by a bullet because it is so much cheaper for the US to make a bullet than to put someone in a life style that is better than most americans have ..................