I suppose I could say that it is all over except the shouting. Certainly the lynch mobs outside the courtroom for the Scott Peterson trial have been able to shout twice now; first following his conviction and then for the death penalty verdict.
What a waste! First you have the tragedy of someone killing Laci Peterson and her unborn child. Then you have this long drawn out trial (At least it wasn't as long as the Simpson trial.) with a death penalty verdict handed down which may never be carried out. Our court system is so screwed up that it will take years to process this and carry it out, and who knows, a subsequent court may overturn that verdict and say "life without the possibility of parole". Then, if that happens, he could be killed by a fellow inmate. This whole thing is a farce from beginning to end.
Perhaps I have been watching too many CSI programs on TV recently but I would like to say, SHOW ME THE PROOF. Even though he was convicted on circumstantial evidence, or at least that is what I have been hearing, I am wondering what happened to the DNA evidence that law enforcement agencies now hold up as the final nail in the coffin of people accused of various crimes. Was there no DNA involved in this trial? I don't remember hearing about any on the news. Or then perhaps, the waters of San Francisco Bay effectively cleansed the bodies on any DNA evidence, thereby making this a nearly perfect crime. That is, no witnesses and no DNA.
What a waste! First you have the tragedy of someone killing Laci Peterson and her unborn child. Then you have this long drawn out trial (At least it wasn't as long as the Simpson trial.) with a death penalty verdict handed down which may never be carried out. Our court system is so screwed up that it will take years to process this and carry it out, and who knows, a subsequent court may overturn that verdict and say "life without the possibility of parole". Then, if that happens, he could be killed by a fellow inmate. This whole thing is a farce from beginning to end.
Perhaps I have been watching too many CSI programs on TV recently but I would like to say, SHOW ME THE PROOF. Even though he was convicted on circumstantial evidence, or at least that is what I have been hearing, I am wondering what happened to the DNA evidence that law enforcement agencies now hold up as the final nail in the coffin of people accused of various crimes. Was there no DNA involved in this trial? I don't remember hearing about any on the news. Or then perhaps, the waters of San Francisco Bay effectively cleansed the bodies on any DNA evidence, thereby making this a nearly perfect crime. That is, no witnesses and no DNA.
These mobs outside the courtrooms bother me greatly. Why this desire for revenge? They are lowering themselves to the level of the convicted by desiring the prisoner's execution. If the death penalty is the law of the state, so be it, by why stand outside the courthouse cheering on the decision in a particular case? That is plain sick.
We live in troubled times, very troubled times. So many people can only think kill, kill, kill. Whether it be a work of fiction with the title "Kill Bill" or the president himself talking about killing Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden. There is this obsession with the word kill. Yet, isn't one of the Ten Commandments "Thou Shalt Not Kill?" Oh, but so many "god fearing" people are going to urge that we do just that. How hyprocritical! How sick and perverted! Sometimes it so depresses me that I just want to go out and kill myself. Oops! Did I say that?
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