Scott Peterson, Ultimate Irony and a Texas favor
Posted on December 14, 2004
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Three points of discussion from this AP news story: Scott Peterson Still May Never Be Executed
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Peterson was convicted Nov. 12 of murdering his wife, Laci, and the fetus she was carrying. The jury reached its death verdict Monday on its third day of deliberations.
What’s this business of the term “fetus”??? How correct is this santization of terms actually? The unborn child, as it is correctly termed, was around 8 months and by all medical accounts, a fully developed baby. So, knock off that politcal correct crap and call a baby… a baby!
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The judge will formally sentence Peterson on Feb. 25. If Delucchi affirms the verdict, the 32-year-old former fertilizer salesman will be sent to the state’s death row at the notorious San Quentin State Prison, which overlooks the bay where prosecutors say Peterson dumped his wife’s body.
In an ultimate twist of irony, I’m hoping that Scott Peterson has a window seat to that exact location.
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If Peterson is sentenced to death, he will sit on death row for more than five years before he is appointed an attorney for his first and mandatory appeal to the California Supreme Court.
The article rightly reports that of the 38 states with the death penalty, California moves the slowest toward executions. The most active death penalty state, Texas, has executed 23 inmates this year and 336 since 1982, when executions resumed there. I hope California prosecutors know that we’ll cheerfully chip in a little “super juice” or “kilowattage” and take care of that pesky death row problem for them.
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