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Colorado man gets life for murders of pregnant wife, children
reuters.com ^
| 11/19/18
| Keith Coffman
Posted on 11/19/2018 1:24:58 PM PST by ColdOne
GREELEY, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado man was sentenced to life without parole on Monday for strangling his pregnant wife, smothering their two young daughters and dumping their bodies in an oil field so he could pursue a romantic affair. Christopher Watts, 33, was spared the death penalty at the urging of family members of his wife, Shanann, 34, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and their daughters Celeste, 3, and Bella, 4.
“This is perhaps the most inhumane and vicious crime I have handled,” Judge Marcelo Kopcow, who has 17 years on the bench, said in the packed and windowless courtroom in Weld County District Court.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: murder; watts
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He did the same thing Scott Peterson did. Killed them so he could have a affair. He also was giving the media a lot of interviews.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:24:58 PM PST
by
ColdOne
To: ColdOne
Too bad it’s not life in prison at hard labor.
To: ColdOne
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:27:19 PM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: ColdOne
Life????? Gimme a bleepin’ break!!!!
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:29:33 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
To: ColdOne
No death penalty?
Colorado has really been Californicated.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:32:15 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Gay State Conservative
While it’s technically still on the books, in practical terms Colorado doesn’t do the death penalty any more.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:32:29 PM PST
by
Simon Green
("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
To: ColdOne
Should be room temp.........
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:33:42 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: ColdOne
No one who's killed their children should ever see another sunrise.
Makes me want to puke.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:34:56 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: ColdOne
hopefully, some of his fellow prisoners will not care for baby murderers and will treat him accordingly.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:34:59 PM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(Criminals at F.B.I., Justice Dept, I.R.S and No one taken out in cuffs? Federal gub mint is crappola)
To: Simon Green
Give him to me: I’ll put a noose around his neck and hang him at high noon in the public square
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:35:23 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: ColdOne
Just beacuse the family of the deceased asked for “life without parole” doesn;t mean you have to do it.
They should have sentenced him to execution. If anyone deserves it, he does.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:35:27 PM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
To: Joe Boucher
I’m thinking too that his fellow inmates won’t go too easy on him.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:38:09 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
To: Joe Boucher
Yep, he won’t last long.
I bet he doesn’t last six months..................
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:38:29 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: antidemoncrat
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:38:56 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
To: Simon Green
While it’s technically still on the books, in practical terms Colorado doesn’t do the death penalty any more. Yep, depending on who's in charge, and Dems have owned that state executive for quite a while. They pamper their worst felons.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:39:39 PM PST
by
fwdude
(Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
To: ColdOne
“Christopher Watts, 33, was spared the death penalty at the urging of FAMILY MEMBERS OF HIS WIFE...”
I’m HOPING that they urged NOT killing him so that he HAS a horrible life in prison.
However, this guy needs to be ‘Dahmerized’ in prison, STAT!
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:44:17 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
To: ColdOne
Put him in gen pop. Problem solved.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:44:21 PM PST
by
steel_resolve
(And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
To: ColdOne
“He did the same thing Scott Peterson did.”
I’ll bet he has a proposal of marriage from some nutty female who is ‘into’ murderers in prison...within the week!
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:46:47 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
To: ColdOne
How do these idiots think they’ll actually get away with crimes like this?
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:46:52 PM PST
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Got tired of his wife and kids... couldn’t wait for a divorce and opted for a more permanent solution.
Helped that her family is filled with idiot bleeding heart liberals.
What a lucky guy! And absolutely nauseating.
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posted on
11/19/2018 1:51:19 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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