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.
So soon?
I knew the 70's were good for something...
If the state of florida would like to supply me a round trip plane ticket and a 1911 pistol, I'm willing to show up and do the job for them. I'll even supply my own ammo.
(note: I'd like to keep the 1911, though).
I agree. Those two jurors are the kind of enablers who allow pieces of dogcrap like Smith to do what they do. Those two scumbag jurors are culpable and should die with him.
MSM teases the verdict for the 11 PM news but who can wait that long when you know the answer is on FR!
Well....see....he was addicted to drugs. He had a back injury and was addicted to painkillers. And, when he was born, he had a cone head and 2 black eyes. And he had just lost his job and his wife had kicked him out. And when he was young, he helped his aunt make meatballs and drew her a pic of a rose and his old prom date testified that he was sweet and taught her to play pool and his barber likes him. And his addictionologist doctor loves him...she told him so last time she visited him in jail. And he's a very good mechanic and can fix roofs. whew
See?
Criminal verdicts must be unanimous. Jury recommendation at penalty phase is by majority.
Really now. I heard different.
"Statements which Terri Schiavo made which do support the relief sought by her surrogate (Petitioner/Guardian) include statements to him prompted by her grandmother being in intensive care that if she was ever a burden she would not want to live like that. Additionally, statements made to Michael Schiavo which were prompted by something on television regarding people on life support that she would not want [a] life like that also reflect her intention in this particular situation. Also the statements she made in the presence of Scott Schiavo at the funeral luncheon for his grandmother that "if I ever go like that just let me go. Don't leave me there. I don't want to be kept alive on a machine" and to Joan Schiavo following a television movie in which a man following an accident was in a coma to the effect that she wanted it stated in her will that she would want the tubes and everything taken out if that happened to her are likewise reflective of this intent."
"The court specifically finds that these statements are Terri Schiavo's oral declarations concerning her intention as to what she would want done under the present circumstances and the testimony regarding such oral declarations is reliable, is creditable and rises to the level of clear and convincing evidence to this court."
Your information is crap.
There's no shortage of those in Sarasota. I know, I used to live there.
Actually, according to terri's family, who are just as if not more reliable since they had no ulterior motives tat are apparent, she had never made ANY comments regardng that. I feel in a case such as this, where her parents were willing to take care of her, and since she had made no living will or any kind of formal declaration, they should have erred on the side of life.
If you have an opinion on things like that, have a living will, and make it official. I've had my living will since I was 19.
On CNN they were talking and a cmmentator said "He had a bad back and suffered from depression. So does most of America, this is not an excuse"
Michael and HIS relatives said she told them. That ain't good enough?
Sarcasm Alert!
The judge who was legally blind. Who was shown to have conflict of interest.
No brainer. They should still have hangings, too.
Where do you guys get your information? I've never seen such garbage on FR -- this place is turning into a gossip corner.
Her mother lied on the stand and later retracted her statement. Ulterior motives? Her parents filed for bankruptcy a few years before Terri went PVS -- they could have used the money.
Oh please! That the best you got? I heard he was short, also. Ooooooh!
"Who was shown to have conflict of interest."
Yeah, that's right. His legal secretary lived next door to a guy who knew the cousin of the owner of the grocery store where the wife of a board member of the hospice shopped.
Show me the conflict of interest. There ain't none, rumor-monger.
Get over it...
Well, the verdict is actually on the charge--1st degree, manslaughter, felony murder, etc....In a capital case, it does have to be unanimous for it to go to the "penalty phase".
However, the jury recommendation in the "penalty phase" is only by simple majority--7 to 5. The Judge has the discretion to accept or reject the recommendation. Most judges go with the recommendation.
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