Scott Peterson's Death Penalty Overturned

[Bann]

While we were looking the other way -

The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned the death penalty sentence for Scott Peterson, convicted in the Christmas Eve murder of his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner.

Scott Peterson's death sentence in murder of pregnant wife overturned by California Supreme Court

The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned Scott Peterson's 2005 death sentence in the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci, but left the door open for prosecutors to try again for the same sentence.

www.foxnews.com

Good. Put him back in the General Population and just let ... things work themselves out ...naturally.

 

[Hijinx]

California already has over 700 people on death row who will die of old age.

 

[Monello]

California already has over 700 people on death row who will die of old age.

California needs to elect a terminator as governor.

 

[Clem72]

An old saying in California, it will cost more to kill them than to keep them in prison for life. Not sure if it's still true (or ever was), but the argument was about the expense of extra appeals processes, keeping a separate prison wing, maintaining hardware that doesn't get used (this was back in the electric chair days), etc.

 

[vraiblonde]

An old saying in California, it will cost more to kill them than to keep them in prison for life.

Put me in charge. I'll do that chit on the cheap.

I'm not sure why we have such a problem putting down our rabid humans in this country. Instead we cage them for life and call that "humane".

 

[Kyle]

They need to setup a rapid appeal system.

Guilty... Yep, still Guilty!... Yep, still Guilty!... Yep, still Guilty!... ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap!

 

[Clem72]

Put me in charge. I'll do that chit on the cheap.

I'm not sure why we have such a problem putting down our rabid humans in this country. Instead we cage them for life and call that "humane".

Shoot 'em then charge their family for the bullet? I don't disagree on principle, assuming you have the right person. The only problem I have with the death penalty is that people are in charge of who it gets applied to, and people are stupid.

 

[Grumpy]

The only problem I have with the death penalty is that people are in charge of who it gets applied to, and people are stupid.

^yeahthat.. Bothers me that ALOT of DAs and lawyers are more worried about winning/losing than fairness. DAs withholding evidence (thats for you, Kamala), law officials lying, unfixed loopholes getting a guilty person acquitted, etc. Just look at the slow roll the FBI used to prolong the Trump collusion process and the current releases of looters in all those wonderful cites across the USA. Certainly looks to me that the horse has left the barn on law and order.

 

[vraiblonde]

^yeahthat.. Bothers me that ALOT of DAs and lawyers are more worried about winning/losing than fairness. DAs withholding evidence (thats for you, Kamala), law officials lying, unfixed loopholes getting a guilty person acquitted, etc. Just look at the slow roll the FBI used to prolong the Trump collusion process and the current releases of looters in all those wonderful cites across the USA. Certainly looks to me that the horse has left the barn on law and order.

Here's the thing, though:

In the rare instance that someone is wrongly convicted, it ALWAYS turns out that that guy was a shitbag too. He didn't happen to commit that particular crime, but he committed plenty of others that went unpunished. I have never even heard of a completely innocent law abiding person - you or me - who was convicted of a death penalty level crime.

Cops zero in on certain people for a reason, and that reason is because that person is a career criminal who should have been strapped to the chair long ago. A violent criminal is way more likely to go free than an innocent person wrongfully convicted.

So we have to think about whether or not that bothers us. The only thing that bothers me about it is that some other shitbag is running around free.

 

[Grumpy]

Here's the thing, though:

In the rare instance that someone is wrongly convicted, it ALWAYS turns out that that guy was a shitbag too. He didn't happen to commit that particular crime, but he committed plenty of others that went unpunished. I have never even heard of a completely innocent law abiding person - you or me - who was convicted of a death penalty level crime.

Cops zero in on certain people for a reason, and that reason is because that person is a career criminal who should have been strapped to the chair long ago. A violent criminal is way more likely to go free than an innocent person wrongfully convicted.

So we have to think about whether or not that bothers us. The only thing that bothers me about it is that some other shitbag is running around free.

Agree with all that, but still doesn't make it right to pin something on someone who is not guilty of that particular crime. Career criminals should still be in jail in my view but so often plea deals are made so someone(DA,lawyer) can win rather than the full impact of a just punishment. Career criminals are made by the judicial system, IMO.

 

[stgislander]

In the rare instance that someone is wrongly convicted, it ALWAYS turns out that that guy was a shitbag too. He didn't happen to commit that particular crime, but he committed plenty of others that went unpunished. I have never even heard of a completely innocent law abiding person - you or me - who was convicted of a death penalty level crime.

Somebody is furiously performing Internet searches at this moment.

 

[Kyle]

Career criminals are made by the judicial system, IMO.

If not made, at least encouraged being there is so little time to their sentences.

 

[Kyle]

Somebody is furiously performing Internet searches at this moment.

How many guesses do we get?

 

[stgislander]

Thre

How many guesses do we get?

Three, and your first two do not count.

 

[vraiblonde]

Somebody is furiously performing Internet searches at this moment.

They'll find a ton at the Innocence Project, but a little digging shows that those "innocent" people had extensive criminal backgrounds.

It's a lie, like the "unarmed black man" trope.

 

[RoseRed]

Back in Court. Bidding for a new trial.

 

[Bare-ya-cuda]

The don’t electrocute them because the additional load on their shitty grid will black out the entire state…lol.