Scott Peterson Sentencing
 

The judge today in the Scott Peterson case agreed with the jury's recommendation for the death penalty.

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Who's Scott Peterson?

That's great news. Someone as disgusting as a person as him diserves worse.

A Man from my Home town that Murdered his pregnant wife, and threw her body in to a river in San Fransico. The man is a complete scum bag. When his wife "Disappeared" he was hitting on girls at my Ex-girlfriends work.

Just because he killed one person? Hmm, then tell me what a person is who knocks on doors, shoots the person which opens and stabs all the others in the house. And that goes on through an entire road.

I'm pretty sure that SP had his reasons for killing her, as disgusting as that may sound. You don't go and kill people for fun, unless you're a lunatic.

And death penalty is something rather obsolete. As is life long sentences. Costs the state a bomb and is useless to begin with. Sure, it is easy to execute somebody, but hey, you have to accomodate the guy, feed him, get him a priest (hey, if I ever end up on death row then I'll get just about every priest there is. I'll get the bloody pope, just to piss the prison off) and he doesn't do anything worth selling. So he just costs a lot of money and doesn't do anything. Therefore I say, it'd be better if they invested in therapy and resocialising and make the guy a part of normal society again, relocate him. The current punishing system is rather stupid, if you ask me.

...Anarky. he killed his PREGNANT WIFE. As in she was about to have a baby. I'm sorry, but I find it abosutley APALLING you are defending him. I've lost all respect for you. He was charged in double homicide.

And if he did Just get life in prison, the prisoners would have murdered him. When he was in prison, I believe they had to seperate him from other Prisoners because they were threatening to kill him on site.

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And his "Reasons" For Murdering his wife and child, was so he could get out of being married and having a kid. he wanted other women, and he even had another girlfriend, whom he didn't even tell he was married.

Is this a real case - this one with shooting and stabbing?

Well, it's strange why this guy was sentenced to death and Charles Manson wasn't, although he also killed a pregnant woman (and some other people as well).
Fun may be also the reason for killing.
That's highly ineffective.

Best wishes,

Robweiller

Charles Manson was sentenced to death, but oops, California abolished the death penalty right after his hearing. I guess it's reinstated now, but no retrial for Charlie.

I'm glad Scott Peterson got the death sentence. He is a disgusting, unfaithful asshole that I hope suffers slow and painfully for what he did to his pregant wife.

She didn't deserve to die, she didn't do anything wrong, but that idiot of a so-called "faithful" husband wanted to be with another woman, so he killed his wife and the unborn child.

AC's right. He killed her so he didn't have to go through a divorce that would cost him money. What a coward. And I also think that rehabilitation is ineffective, especially in this case. What he did was cold, calculated, and without cause. He took a daughter and a grandson from some people who trusted and loved him and took him into their family.

And he did it without regret or second thought.

I say they should tie weights to his ankles and throw him in the water. Bring him up after a minute, so he's not dead... then do it again so he drowns. Once for each person he did that to. First time scares him, second time kills him. That's what should happen to him.

And, regardless of how well the system works here, the fact is that this man deserves nothing more than death.

Damn lucky guy of this Manson.

Best wishes,

Robweiller

The death penalty strikes me odd. It's like saying "You can't kill people, but we can." On the other hand, this man was human garbage and really doesn't deserve pleasant treatment.

That's exactly what I think about this.

I'm glad he got the death penalty.

Anarky:I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion but that is one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. Scott Peterson is a sociopath (aka psychopath) and cannot be rehabilitated. It's a personality disorder where a person knows right from wrong yet totally disregards it. He literally lacks a conscience.

"The punishment fits the crime."

I dont think he should be put to death. i dont even think he should of gotten murder. there was no real physical proof. manslaughter. 25 years. ok.. but putting a guy to death. and then letting another guy go scott free because he was in a TV show 20 years ago.. the american criminal system is a joke.

Who are you talking about? 20 years ago on TV?

touche'. Still, I think the case could be made that the death penalty is cruel and is in violation of the 8th amendments.

In the long run it's no skin off my back. I'd feel safer at night knowing there is one less asshole out their murdering pregnant women.

But you have to look at amendment in the context of when it was written to understand the admendments intent. Every state had the death penalty when the bill of rights was added to the constitution, the 8th admendment is about torture not execution.

As unpopular as Anarky's opinion seems to be, I somewhat agree. I think the death penalty should be reserved for those who are uncontrollable, incapable of being rehabilitated and are a danger to potentially everyone. Serial killers, those with severe antisocial personality disorder and those who impulsively kill without logical reasoning. Peterson had a reason to kill his wife and unborn son, however morally abhorrant it was. I understand the urge to make a killer feel what he/she made their victims feel, but I cannot in good conscience ever wish death upon someone unless they are absolutely incapable of being stopped otherwise. I think a life sentence would stop Scott Peterson from ever killing again.

I think outcries of "He's a sociopath, he deserves death!" are fueled only by a personal disgust for the crime, rather than an understanding of the disorder. Roughly, 1 out of 35 men, and 1 out of 100 women suffer from antisocial personality disorder, aka sociopathic personality. By those numbers, its more than likely that there are a handful of people on this very board who suffer the very same disorder.

I'm not sure if rehabilitation and release is the proper way to go, but being stuck in jail for life doesn't mean someone's entirely unproductive. I mean, someone's gotta mint those license plates.