Posted on 01/19/2010 6:36:49 AM PST by reaganaut1
NEW HAVEN — More than two years later, the details still have the power to horrify.
In the middle of the night, two parolees break into a tidy clapboard house in the central Connecticut town of Cheshire. They club the father, a doctor, and tie him up.
One of them rapes and strangles the mother, the authorities say. The other molests one of the daughters, 11-year-old Michaela. The father breaks free and shouts for help. But the intruders have set a fire: The girls, Michaela and Hayley, 17, tied to their beds, die of smoke inhalation.
The triple murder on Sorghum Mill Drive — widely compared to the Kansas killings in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — has transfixed the state ever since. The suspects, both habitual criminals, were arrested a block from the house. The crime prompted a searching review of the state legal system that had freed them.
Now, jury selection in the first of their capital murder trials is set to begin Tuesday, though both defendants tried and failed to avoid trial by offering to plead guilty in exchange for sentences of life in prison.
But in Connecticut, this is more than a murder case. It is a raw test, not only of whether these men deserve execution, but also of public and political sentiment on capital punishment itself. It is a case so well known in the state, fraught with so much emotion, and with so much potential to shape the thinking about capital punishment here, that the selection of 12 jurors and eight alternates could take six months.
“All of the things that are about to play out in the Cheshire case will have a tremendous effect on the death-penalty debate in this state,” said State Representative Michael P. Lawlor, a Democrat from East Haven.
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Why shouldn't these men be executed? Rat politicians need to be removed in CT as well as MA.
Death penalty opponents have some gall making the procedure in capital cases extremely slow, even when guilt is not in doubt, and then complaining about the cost of the death penalty.
Make the rats squirm like the cowardly weasels they are while explaining why these two scumbags should not be executed.
There’s, many a man alive no more value than a dead dog.
Shaara - The Killer Angels
These two fit this description to a T!
This was so evil...
The death penalty is too nice...
I have really never understood folks who don’t support the Death Penalty. Some folks just need killing.
AND THERE'LL BE THIS STRANGER.
“PAUL LAZZARO SENT ME,”
THE STRANGER WILL SAY
AND SHOOT HIS PECKER OFF.
STRANGER WILL GIVE HIM A COUPLE
OF SECONDS TO THINK ABOUT
WHO PAUL LAZZARO IS...
AND WHAT LIFE'S GONNA BE LIKE
WITHOUT A PECKER,
THEN HE'LL SHOOT HIM ONCE
IN THE GUTS AND WALK AWAY.
The more terrible the crime, the less justly we can give the death penalty.
Execute the members of the parole board who voted to grant parole to these two animals as well. Enough of the evil of bureaucrats going unpunished.
I would rather they spend the rest of their lives at hard labor than the death penalty. Death is too easy way to go out. Of course, that would be inhumane, so the next best thing is the death penalty.
I would rather they get the needle or be strapped to the electric chair. SOONER RATHER THAN LATER
fire up ole sparky!
I’m sorry but IMHO that is silly. As long as they’re alive, some judge could release them, or they could escape. In the meantime, idiot liberals will be agitating for their freedom, often using our tax money; not to mention what it costs to feed, house, and guard these animals.
I want them dead.
I don’t want them to have any chance of ever harming another human being, whether it is an innocent or a fellow convict. If their death could be made prolonged, painful and public I would be all for it, but I will settle for just plain dead.
It will take six months to decide what to do with these animals?
Lawyers have totally screwed up this country.
Someone will have to guard these people and feed them. Why should their lives be in jeopardy?
Once executed the problem is over . Not one executed criminal has committed another crime, raped another woman, killed another human being.
The problem with the death penalty is the time spent between sentencing and carrying out the execution.
Anyone convicted and given the death penalty should get one appeal and be dead within a month after that appeal.
Hang ‘em high. Soon. Lawyers cost money. Prison costs money. Over and out with these scum. I always loved the Texas Fast-Track.
Personally, I like the idea of psychologically tormenting them into committing suicide:
Put ‘em in an 8x8 cell.
The light remains on at all times.
No entertainment, no reading material, no TV, no windows, no outside communication whatsoever. Just a small engraved plaque with their crimes and their sentence: “Life without parole.”
Feed them a bland high-carb diet (the modern equivalent of bread and water).
They get to leave the cell for hygiene and exercise (no gym machines - just a separate yard for walking) for 1-2 hours a day, maximum. No talking with other prisoners is allowed.
Make certain there is a sturdy fixture (pipe, sprinkler, etc.) on the ceiling.
My response said hard labor for the rest of their life. I didn’t say they would be subject to be freed, so in that case IMHO, your response is silly. :-)
Also, with appeals upon appeals for death row inmates, the death penalty makes it more expensive than for an inmate to be in prison for life.
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