Peterson guilty

Actually it is CHEAPER to send a person to life in prison than to sentnce him to death. That is because there are automatic appeals, and they cost millions of dollars.
Strange but true.
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What left wing newspaper did you get that from? (Only kidding!!!! :) We actually agree on something).

Beowulf is right about this. It is much more expensive to get the death penalty. The appeals process is probably the worst financially. There is also the automatic appeals process so if the person says 'I did it, I'm guilty, I feel like crap about it and I deserve to die' it is still automatically appealed whether that person requests it or not. Think of how much money was spent on the Peterson case...then think about doing that multiple times.

Then you have the jail time during the trial and while awaiting death row. My state has one death row inmate that was sentenced on May 15th 1984. There may be some older cases but that is one that I'm familiar with. I believe his latest appeal was in 2000. I don't know if there are any more appeals available to him. My point being that even with a death sentence, they don't just take you to the other end of the hall and finish you off.

In the Peterson case, I thought he was guilty as hell. However, I was surprised when the jury came back with a guilty plea. I thought there was more evidence against OJ than Peterson. Goes to show you never know what you'll get from a jury. I was also surprised they charged him with the second murder to begin with (although I'm glad they did). Many states, including my state, do not recognize an unborn fetus as a child. I'm not trying to get into any abortion debate, but in a lot of states, he would have been charged only once.

As for why some cases get notoriety and others don't, I believe it is more related to cash flow than it is to race (There have been well published stories of black victims). His parents are loaded who also had prominent friends. Most trials don't last this long. If any of us here were in Petersons shoes, it would probably been open and shut. A lot of money was spent on this trial and his defense and that garnered some attention.
Also, if you all recall early on, Peterson was begging for media attention. At that time, his wife was just missing and he was on many news outlets pleading for her safe return.

It backfired when they started looking at him as a suspect. I also believe that with the abortion debate going on in todays society, additional coverage was given because of what was riding on the murder of an unborn child. These little things in the beginning sort of snowballed into more media coverage. The more people saw, the more they wanted...and that is what often drives media coverage.
 
Beowulf said:
Ummmm...better read this. It will explain the economics of execution versus life imprisonment...
http://www.mindspring.com/~phporter/econ.html
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Interesting... I have to refuse to
believe that author... I am NOT
talking about the costs of appeal itself.

He did NOT include this:
How much does ONLY one electric chair cost ?

They can buy only ONE and use it for
unlimited number of murderers etc...

One Electric Chair does NOT cost that much !
I've been trying to look for the
average $$$ price for ONLY ONE Electric chair ??????

How much does the drug that made him sleep and die ?

These prisoners got free rent/food AND
we're paying them a lot of money to stay in prison.

Do you want FREE rent ? FREE food ? etc ?

If YES, then You could find something bad to do
to make You go to prison WITHOUT death penalty :)
 
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Y said:
These prisoners got free rent/food AND
we're paying them a lot of money to stay in prison.
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True, but we pay MORE to have them executed.
 

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Y,
Why would you exclude the cost of the appeals process or trials. Those are factors that need to be considered. Its like when buying a car and you are looking to see what is most economical. You include gas mileage, maintenance, as well as the original cost of the car. You can say that 'X' car gets better gas mileage so you will save money, but what if that car costs $200,000? Would you still buy it because you are saving $4.00 on average each time you fill-up? Same here. You can say its cheap to send the guy directly to the electric chair, but its very, very expensive to get to that point and most of it will be at the expense of the taxpayers.

What I think we should do is have these guys doing manual labor. Instead of living rent and food free, they should be doing something, and not making any money for it. The waisted man-hours should be put to use.
 
Geez, I'm still too shocked about being
executed more expensive than
being in jail. Isn't this so amazing....
 
fry peterson

like i said is cheaper to fry peterson, why becus like y siad it cost more to feed a crybaby like peterson, ans two what if peterson gets parole then all hell breaks loose right huh :D
 
Geez, I'm still too shocked about being
executed more expensive than
being in jail. Isn't this so amazing....
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Y, I'm not sure if your serious with this comment or if my sarcasm detector isn't working today ;)

I doubt peterson will get the death penalty, although I was surprised he was even found guilty so I'll probably be wrong about his sentence.

In reference to the discussion about costs of prison/execution, we really need to put these guys to work. They should be making us money, not costing us money. Couldn't they find something constructive for them to do in jail. License Plates, picnic tables, wheelchairs...all kinds of stuff they should be making (and working long hours at it too).
 
I dont agree with the jury. I think scott peterson lawyers should appeal this case. If appeal is denied then i think he should take this case to the US supreme court. For one DNA evidence is not proof enough scott did it. Two, There are no eyewitnesses. Three the judge denied the jury to see the crime scene. If i was on that jury id would voted not guilty. Even he was guilty their should be one count. The fetus should not count because roe vs wade. Fetus does`nt count as a life. So how in the hell the jury says 2 counts. How come its ok for a woman to kill her fetus but a man cant kill her fetus? Another thing there were 2 murder residents in medseto. One was lacy peterson and chandra levy, How come its ok for a politican to commit murder and you average private citizen cant?
 
Scott Patterson should not be put in death. I am an advocate of death penalty in the most cases as for Scott's case. He deserved to stay in a padded room with no windows, no parole, no social interaction, no weight lift room, no TV, nothing. I think, they should put up pictures all of Laci that died in the ocean on all his walls, covered with thick pastic. He can't get to them and make him look at her everyday rest of his life.

He just drink dirty and warm water and eat the old bread ! Let him suffer rest of his life! He has to be punished for horrible things to Laci and her family. We all of us were in tear up our hearts especially innocence fetus baby boy and beautiful wife, Laci. It is extremely tragedy !!
 
Sabrina said:
Scott Patterson should not be put in death. I am an advocate of death penalty in the most cases as for Scott's case. He deserved to stay in a padded room with no windows, no parole, no social interaction, no weight lift room, no TV, nothing. I think, they should put up pictures all of Laci that died in the ocean on all his walls, covered with thick pastic. He can't get to them and make him look at her everyday rest of his life.

He just drink dirty and warm water and eat the old bread ! Let him suffer rest of his life! He has to be punished for horrible things to Laci and her family. We all of us were in tear up our hearts especially innocence fetus baby boy and beautiful wife, Laci. It is extremely tragedy !!
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Yes I second that!!!!!!!!!
 
It's sickening to see people thinking opinions over the facts are good enough to get justice served
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It sickening me when people get away with murder just like OJ Simpson, we know he killed his wife for this day on there no justice done for Nicole Simpson, that is so sad if you asked me.

Maybe it is true that there no real evidences on Scott, but that doesn't mean he is innocent.

Number one he lied so much and why all sudden he brought a boat just before she was murder it doesn't make sense why he didn't do it.
 
It's sickening to see people thinking opinions over the facts are good enough to get justice served

First of all, it is not my opinion that Scott is guilty. It is the facts that I have seen that convinced me that Scott is guilty. His affair is not the reason - it is how he behaved during the manhunt for Laci and Connor. He bought a boat and was fishing at the marina where the bodies were found. He could not prove his albi convincingly. He was caught in San Diego with bleached blonde hair, dough in his hands and a passport. He was caught in so many lies, even with his own parents. I could go on but hey, Scott aint worth of my time/energy.
 
So, did he really admitted that he killed his wife and unborn son?
 
Weirdo said:
So, did he really admitted that he killed his wife and unborn son?
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No, he did not admit it.
 
Then why charged him with murdered? Even they couldn't prove it and not enough evidences. I mean I know he cheated on his wife, but need more eveidences that shows he did killed his wife and his unborn child.
 
Well, He is not going to admit that he murder his wife and their newborn child , he just want his freedom by jumping on to more women and keep lying to them, maybe murder more.....who knows...

I'm glad to hear he is found guilty, now that justice has been served....whether or not there wasn't enough to prove he really did, obviously some people sure can get away with it soo well.....but he didn't , what a pity!
 
Yeah, you're (^Angel^) right. I am glad he's found guilty. That way he can't get away with it. His loss.
 
I dont agree with the jury. I think scott peterson lawyers should appeal this case. If appeal is denied then i think he should take this case to the US supreme court. For one DNA evidence is not proof enough scott did it. Two, There are no eyewitnesses. Three the judge denied the jury to see the crime scene. If i was on that jury id would voted not guilty. Even he was guilty their should be one count. The fetus should not count because roe vs wade. Fetus does`nt count as a life. So how in the hell the jury says 2 counts. How come its ok for a woman to kill her fetus but a man cant kill her fetus? Another thing there were 2 murder residents in medseto. One was lacy peterson and chandra levy, How come its ok for a politican to commit murder and you average private citizen cant?
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Keep in mind that the jury doesn't create the law. If the law states that the killing of a fetus that is close to term (if I recall, she was 8 mos pregnant) is murder, then the jury found him guilty of doing just that. The jury doesn't have the right to say 'He killed the fetus and he should be punished for it'. The jurors duty is to say 'He broke the law and should be punished for it'. If killing a fetus is illegal, then they decide if hes guilty of breaking the law.

BTW, anyone know what the law is in California regarding unborn babies? Is abortion legal in Cali, in particular the jurisdiction that Peterson was convicted?
 
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