The jury in the Scott Peterson trial today recommended that he be sentenced to life in prison. Well...kinda. They actually gave him the death penalty. But there are 600 on death row in California & executions average less than one a year. So you can bet that unless Peterson lives to be 600 years old he will be looking forward to a peaceful passing in his sleep in his old age.
The judicial system, with its never ending appeals & sentences overturned by Superior Court "judges", has made a mockery of the death sentence laws. In NJ a man on death row won his appeal. The NJ Superior court said that although the man stabbed his female victim 40 times, there was no intent to kill her, although she did happen to die from the wounds. We must assume that these so-called judges on the court are blaming the victim for being too weak to withstand the blows of 40 thrusts with a knife. So far, every death row inmate in NJ has died, or will die, of old age.
Superior Courts should stop thwarting the will of the people. Either remove the death penalty laws from the books or let the will of the people go forth.
And we, the tv viewing audience, have been given a reprieve. We are now spared the insufferable, never-ending news stories & talk shows about this case. Peterson deserves the death penalty for putting us through that alone.
....from sea to shining sea