BinaryJustin said:

"Is white meat OK this year?"

AsianBomb777 said:

Tis cool.....I just saw this. I am not strong on my stand It just doesn't feel right for me.... I personally could not do it therefor I can't ask another to and say the blood isn't on my hands.

I can't say that he deserves it..

A tragedy at best..

I sometimes wonder what happens to a person, in his/her mind when these types of crimes are committed.

I couldn't sentence someone to death..

BinaryJustin said:

I would love to.

(Inside joke I don't think anyone will get)

applekisses said:

Life in prison is much worse, I think.

BinaryJustin said:

I sliced it myself.

To tell you the truth??.....


What he did was wrong, killing his wife and his unborn son, but at the same time, he SHOULDN"T be given the death penalty, but instead, life without parole. Just leave him in jail for life. Why? Because I don't think you should commit the same crime to the person who has done the same in turn. It doesn't serve justice, nor does it serve a lesson, either. Instead, it's like saying it's ok to kill or put to death of a human being or an animal. It doesn't stop violence...it encourages violence and more death in the world. I don't think it's right what the jury did, just out of anger, instead of given the right choice which was life. I'm not saying I'm siding w/ the person who does the crime, but I'm not siding with or agreeing with death, either. The judge might have either forgotten the meaning of rightful justice, or he was just probably being naive with the jury, by saying they did a "great job". I don't understand why they have to take the easy way out of what to give him for the both families. I feel thier pain, but I still think it's wrong to allow it. Not just Laci's family, but Scott's family, too. It doesn't show anything positive to children, except that to kill is rightful. But who has the right?? It's more powerful to forgive and let live, than to still hold grudges at the person and demand death on the spot. Think about it....is that how God would treat us?? Think carefully for a moment and realize why life is more important and more of a lesson than death.
Death will not solve the family's problems, nor would it bring Laci back to life. I think they just gave up on life.

If only they realize what they're doing, and how loving and forgiving God could be, because he was with all of them all along, .....if only they knew the power of just one prayer, and the act of forgiveness, too.

I hope you guys understand what I'm trying to say. Does it make sense to you??

AsianBomb777 said:

this is sooo cute and hilarious!

but...i, too, am against the death penalty.

i think he should be executed, because killing is wrong.

then i think the person(s) who performed the execution on him should be killed, because killing is wrong.

and then i think the people who killed the person(s) who performed the execution on him should be killed, because killing is wrong.

and then those people should be executed.

and then the people who executed those people should be executed.

because, you know, killing is wrong.

Missy said:

exactly.

Anxiety said:

i love you.

I'm SO glad you understand me, Violett.

violett said:

right back atcha, babe.

Anxiety said:

there you go, making all kinds of sense again!

Well...here's what some of the jurors thoughts were...excerts of the article by Diana Walsh, Stacy Finz, Chronicle Staff Writers


They never felt a sense of relief. Nor any happiness. Instead, when the six men and six women of the jury found Scott Peterson guilty of murdering his wife and unborn son, they broke down in tears and gave each other a hug.

"There was nobody giving each other high fives,'' juror Greg Beratlis said Monday. "It was a big massive hug and crying.''

Beratlis, a youth-sports coach from Belmont, was one of three jurors who agreed to speak with reporters at length about the reasons the panel had convicted Peterson and recommended that he be sentenced to die and about the emotional toll the six-month trial had exacted.

"That was not a happy event for anybody,'' said Beratlis, 46, who teared up several times during a press conference at the Redwood City courthouse. "I was not happy.''

No one issue or piece of evidence swung the panel toward conviction, the jurors said, but the cumulative weight of Peterson's deceptions and even his courtroom demeanor worked against him.

"It was hard to narrow it down to one specific issue, there were so many, '' said Steve Cardosi, the jury foreman. "Collaboratively, when you add it all up, it doesn't appear to be any other possibility.''

The jurors said that when they adjourned to the deliberation room last month, they had looked at the case as the prosecution had asked them to during closing arguments: as a giant puzzle, with many pieces.

The evidence was circumstantial from the start, but the jurors said a few simple truths stood out. The bodies of Laci Peterson and the couple's unborn son washed up near where Scott Peterson said he had been fishing the day she was reported missing. Peterson told a web of lies to those around him. And his odd behavior -- including continuing to woo his secret girlfriend as police, family and total strangers were looking for his missing wife -- were not the actions of a man who had been wrongly accused.

"If he was innocent, and he'd lost his wife and child, it didn't seem to faze him,'' said Cardosi, a 29-year-old firefighter and paramedic who lives in Half Moon Bay.

Beratlis said he didn't believe Peterson would have been put on trial if the bodies of his wife and unborn son hadn't washed up near where he said he'd been fishing that day.

"If those bodies had never been found or had been found in the desert or Yosemite National Park, we wouldn't be here,'' Beratlis said.

Jurors said they had taken just one vote during the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial, and the vote -- although agonizing -- was unanimous.

Richelle Nice, 34, a mother of four from East Palo Alto who served as an alternate until a juror was excused midway through deliberations, said Peterson's muted response and vacant stare after the guilty verdict had troubled her.

"At the end of the verdict, there was no emotion, no anything," Nice said. "That spoke volumes. That was loud and clear.''

Beratlis said he would have liked to have heard Peterson testify on his own behalf; Nice said she'd heard all she needed to hear from the defendant. During the trial, prosecutors played dozens of taped phone conversations of Peterson wooing and lying to his girlfriend Amber Frey. They also showed jurors several television interviews conducted after his wife had disappeared.

"I heard enough from him,'' Nice said.

The jurors said they felt sympathy toward the families of Laci and Scott Peterson and came to view the defendant's family as more victims of his "charade."

"There is no winner in this,'' Beratlis said.

Deliberations during the penalty phase proved to be far more difficult for Cardosi and other jurors. After hearing two weeks of testimony from family and friends, the jury began deliberations late Thursday afternoon and spent a full day Friday weighing their two options before taking their first vote on a sentence.

The vote was split: six voted for death, two voted for life in prison without parole, and four said they were not ready to make a decision. Cardosi said those four just needed more time to think about the decision that they would have to live with for the rest of their lives.

"Sometimes, a little time helps,'' Cardosi said.

The jurors said that they had finally concluded that death was the right sentence for Peterson because he had betrayed the woman closest to him and the unborn son whose name the couple had already chosen.

"Scott Peterson was Laci's husband and Conner's dad -- the one person who should have protected them,'' Nice said.

Anxiety said:

Life in prison ia a free pass. They get 3 squares, access to TV, libraries, workout facilities, and many other percs that some folks cannot afford. I feel U morally, but until ALL freedoms are revoked, i concur with the death penalty. At least make them work other than picking up trash every once in a while.

DarkKnight1 said:

wait till the other inmates get their hands on him. it won't be a free ride then.

i didn;t follow this case and, personally, I couldn;t understand why there was so much media facination with it. who did these people know to make this such an important case? men kill their wives, girlfriends, children, pregnant or not pretty fequently and the media never makes a peep. So i guess i just don;t get why all these people are crying over the death of a woman who they never met when they should be crying over the fact that this kind of a thing happens way too often in our society and for the most part, it's ignored. swept under the rug.

I wish the media could be more consistent in covering these cases and perhaps play a positive role in domestic abuse awareness. Maybe then the way that our society perceives domestic abuse will change. Maybe more women will realize that what is going on in their relationships isn;t right and they'll be able to get help before it is too late. The high publicity of this case makes it seem like laci was/is more important than many other women who have dies in similar ways. Was her life more valuable than the woman who's husband will murder her next week?

That being said, I can;t understand why people are cheering about a man being put to death by the state. Things like this make me sick of the world that i live in.

Anxiety said:

not as easy as that. its not quite like shawshank.

DarkKnight1 said:

remember how long dahmer lasted in prison? not for nothin', but i have family who works for the department of corrections and i've heard a lot of tales. for better or for worse, it actually CAN be as easy as that...especially if they want it to be.

gemini13 said:

I get it! Did you hear Shitsell on Stern today? That bitch just gets on my nerves. Too bad Howard's board is gone...

JasmineFire said:

I think the fascinaton had to wtih the fact that the fact that Peterson looked like an innocent frat boy..."Not him". Yes, him! They were pretty people.

Anxiety said:

He is not going to be popular in prison and he's good looking and evil. I'm sure that guys that kill their innocent wives and baby in her womb aren't excatly popular...what do they call that, "Ethics among criminals" or something. It's just a no no, along with child rape. I don't want to say this as a joke, but he is going to be fucked up in prison big time! Probably raped and beaten. He's not tough, is he? I'm sorry, but I wouldn't worry about an offical death sentence. He'll probably get killed in prison in about five years. Sorry, but that's what I see happening.

VinnyM27 said:

they looked like pretty average people to me. nothing too surprising. maybe that's just me.

VinnyM27 said:

that, or he'll take his own life. i don't see him as long for this world, but i don't think the government's gonna be doing the deed.

NICE...

violett said:

Damn, Girl--U're fine as hell.

Its is gonna take a while before he is put to death.. he may die before its his turn to get the chair.. OR if he is in prision, someone may beat him to the chair.. He will get his in prision by a big beefy guy named Raul....

JasmineFire said:

Well, I don't think either one was great looking (do girls and gay guys find Scott attractive) but they were a nice white couple, young, lives ahead of them and they appeared to be at least upper middle class. I think that was a factor. They (and I hate to say they, but that really encompasses everyone, inclduing the parents and Amber) just had something that made the story work in the media where other couples with the same circumstances just don't make it.

I need the money, please buy some of my chicken so I can continue playing golf.