Posted on 12/01/2005 5:34:32 PM PST by BenLurkin
SARASOTA, Fla. - Joseph Smith should be executed for kidnapping, raping and murdering Carlie Brucia, the 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a surveillance camera and broadcast around the world, a jury recommended Thursday.
Jurors deliberated five hours before arriving at their recommendation, voting 10-2 for the death penalty. Circuit Judge Andrew Owens ultimately will issue the sentence, as early as next month. Under the law, he must give great weight to the jury's choice before imposing a sentence of death or life in prison without parole.
A doctor killed Terri through Michael's exploitation of state policy. She left scant evidence of her own wishes.
It's time for Ol' Sparky to come out of retirement, and fry this creep like that one dude in "The Green Mile," in which the skull cap was dry.
Just think. This lucky guy's name will go in the hat to be heralded by the Liberal MSM as being the star of the 2000th execution! It could happen with the appeals and all.
Scant???
The judge stated he had "clear and convincing evidence" as to Terri's wishes, as told to him in sworn testimony by three different people when relating three different occassions.
The doctor allowed Terri to die by removing the surgically implanted feeding tube.
Take your propaganda elsewhere.
So two jurors think kidnapping, raping and killing is OK? Those two jurors are evil!
They feel they have the right to see her battered body.
DAMN THE MEDIA TO HELL FOR ALL TIME
? Think again.
Hell, he's still room temp, and has an "important meeting" with the governor this coming Tuesday!
"Ping me in 2016 and we'll celebrate when this pos dies finally."
11 years from now?!?!?! By the standards in place that would mean he is on a fast track.
She shoulda had it in writing...I think that's Steve's point.
Tookie won't be there, only his attorneys.
After rethinking, I've concluded that Terri that did not want to live that way.
Average 12.74 years.
It doesn't have to be unanimous for death penalty verdicts?
Just because they thought execution was inappropriate in this case does not mean they condone his acts. There's no need to stretch the truth, here.
Fortunately, your thoughts and mine are meaningless where the willful termination of a third party is concerned.
Most legislators agree Florida should abandon its 75-year reliance on the electric chair as the state's sole means of capital punishment. But the 3-day session may become bogged down by Gov. Jeb Bush's demand that lawmakers also shorten the appeals process for condemned inmates, who now spend an average 14 years on death row.
Good, it makes me sick to think of that poor little girl
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