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Rodney Berget lives in a single cell on South Dakota's death row, rarely leaving the tiny room where he awaits execution for bludgeoning a prison guard to death with a pipe during an attempted escape.

For Berget's family, his fate is familiar - he is the second member of the clan to be sentenced to death.

His older brother was convicted in 1987 of killing a man for his car. Roger Berget spent 13 years on Oklahoma's death row until his execution in 2000 aged 39.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1wAyCgbJQ

(04-25-2012, 03:56 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: [ -> ]this is not clear to me...will they execute those fuckers that killed the Petit family or not?? this is ambiguous.


(CNN) -- Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy signed a bill into law Wednesday that abolishes the death penalty, making his state the 17^th in the nation to abandon capital punishment and the fifth in five years to usher in a repeal.

The law is effective immediately, though prospective in nature, meaning that it would not apply to those already sentenced to death. It replaces the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of release as the state's highest form of punishment.

more:

http://courantblogs.com/capitol-watch/wi...h-penalty/

This was quite a political dance they did... they waited to repeal the death penalty until after the Petit trial wrapped up, because the population of CT supports the death penalty - especially in the Petit case. So by waiting they allowed those two scumbags to be sentenced to death, then repealed the death penalty moving forward... in other words, everyone on CT's death row technically still has to be put to death. Everyone after the repeal gets a life sentence with no chance for probation.

So once again, the politicians played the public. They made them believe that the Petit murderers would be put to death, and everyone AFTER them will have life sentences.

However, talk to a death penalty lawyer and they will tell you... once a state bans the death penalty, those awaiting death will win in court to have their sentences converted. They will make an equal protection argument, and that will be that.

The 11 who currently sit on death row will still die in prison. They will just die of old age or natural causes.

Aside from the Petit murderers, there are some real winners on CT death row with them. There's the guy who killed the 8 year old who was going to testify against him in another crime... there's the guy who kidnapped, raped, and murdered a 23 year old girl on his delivery route... as you'd expect, real pillars of society who deserve not to die.

It really was horrific... the video of Mrs. Petit from the bank is chilling. She probably thought they would be rescued after that already monstrous ordeal.

Well, at least one of them in California decided to save the state some money:

"One of Orange County's most notorious child killers has hanged himself on death row, the California Department of Corrections has reported. James Lee Crummel, 68, was found hanging in his cell Sunday afternoon at San Quentin State Prison.

The former Newport Beach resident made headlines in the late '90s when neighbors found out he was a child molester. But that was only a fraction of what he had been accused of over the years. As neighbors were putting the heat on, police were putting together a case against him in the 1979 kidnapping, sexual abuse and murder of a 13-year-old boy named James Wilfred Trotter.

The Costa Mesa boy disappeared in 1979 while on his way to school."

http://www.ocregister.com/news/crummel-3...olice.html

*yawn*

SAN FRANCISCO – Scott Peterson on Thursday filed the automatic appeal of his 2004 death sentence to the California Supreme Court, maintaining as he always has that he had nothing to do with the murders of his wife Laci and unborn son Connor.

Peterson's attorney, noted death penalty lawyer Cliff Gardner, filed the 423-page document eight years after a San Mateo County jury found the former fertilizer salesman guilty of suffocating a Laci and dumping her in the San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002. Peterson has been on Death Row since March 17, 2002.

I worked at my old job as an auditor when this case was going on. All of us girls were glued to it and followed every detail. While I don't think he could ever get a fair trial due to all the publicity, I do think he is guilty so it all works out. He needs to be excuted now. No more appeals. He is such a total scumbag murderer.

(CNN) -- Texas slapped the U.S. Supreme Court in the face, and the justices just took it.

On Tuesday night, Texas executed Marvin Wilson, whose IQ score was 61 -- low enough that it should have met any standard for "diminished mental capacity." Shockingly, the court did not intervene to stop the execution despite its 2002 decision in Atkins v. Virginia barring the execution of the "mentally retarded" as "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

Wilson played a role in the murder of Jerry Williams in 1992. He needed to be held accountable for his actions, even with diminished mental capacity. But he had the mental capacity of a first-grader, could barely match his socks and was fired from a car wash job for being too slow at drying cars. A clinical neuropsychologist with 22 years of experience concluded Wilson was intellectually disabled.

Texas got away with executing an intellectually disabled person because the Supreme Court allows states to determine their own standards of "mental retardation" and hasn't bothered to push back when states clearly ignore its ruling.

Flouting the heart of the Atkins decision, Texas decided that not all persons with "mental retardation" should be barred from execution, just those who "a consensus of Texas citizens would agree" whether they should live or die.

Unbelievably, Texas had cited the example of Lennie Small, the intellectually disabled ranch hand in John Steinbeck's famous novel written 75 years ago, "Of Mice and Men," to demonstrate this standard.

Steinbeck's son, Thomas Steinbeck, issued a statement before the execution: "I am certain that if my father, John Steinbeck, were here, he would be deeply angry and ashamed to see his work used in this way." He expressed shock that "Texas would use a fictional character ... as a benchmark to identify whether defendants with intellectual disability should live or die. I find the whole premise to be insulting, outrageous, ridiculous, and profoundly tragic."

The American Association on Intellectual and Development Disabilities was also disturbed by the lack of science and the reliance on "false stereotypes" in Texas' criteria.

In Georgia, prisoners are required to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that they are "mentally retarded." The state almost executed Warren Hill, a man clinically determined to be intellectually disabled. Fortunately, he received a stay of execution, though on other grounds. Clearly, some individuals who may not exhibit the most severe signs of disability will fall through the cracks.

Texas' standard leaves more than a crack through which the rare individual may slip. Wilson fell through a gaping hole because of the ridiculous criteria set by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Because the Texas Legislature failed to pass a law to catch up with the Atkins ruling, the state's high court stepped in.

full story:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/08/opinion/mo...?hpt=hp_c1

A mother is battling to raise enough money to travel from New York to South Dakota to watch the execution of the man who raped and killed her nine-year-old daughter 22 years ago.

Tina Curl, 50, said she will only find justice when she watches Donald Moeller, 59, take his last breath from a 'front row seat' at his execution, scheduled for between October 28 and November 3.

'I have waited 22 long years for this,' Curl told ABC News. 'He watched her die and I am going to watch him die.'
Her daughter, Becky O'Connell, vanished on May 8, 1990 when she went to a convenience store a block from her home in Sioux Falls. Moeller grabbed her as she walked along the busy intersection.

An autopsy found Becky had been raped vaginally and anally and died of a cut to the jugular vein of her neck, according to court documents.

The youngster's naked body was found in a ditch in Lincoln County, South Dakota the next morning; she had been raped and stabbed, and died after her throat was slit, according to court documents.

they have a long way to go before they will witness the death of the man who snatched their daughter from them.

The couple will need to drive the 1,420 miles from their home to the execution as Tina is disabled; she said she has a bad heart and cannot fly.

And she said she will struggle to raise the money as receives just $721 a month for disability and can barely cover her bills, while her husband recently lost his job and is looking for more work.

Update on this asshole ex cop, I think this guy has been in here before

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/b...7808.story

Court rejects ex-cop's final appeal before execution

Manuel Pardo, 56, former Florida police officer is scheduled to be executed for the murder of nine people 26 years ago. A federal judge denied Pardo's request for a stay Monday.

The Associated Press
7:19 p.m. EST, December 11, 2012



STARKE—

The execution of a former Florida police officer for the murder of nine people 26 years ago was briefly put on hold Tuesday evening.

The lethal injection of 56-year-old Manuel Pardo was scheduled for 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke, but it was delayed while waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to make a decision on his final appeals. The court rejected them without comment, allowing the execution to go on.

Officials said most of Pardo's victims were involved with drugs. Pardo contended that he was doing the world a favor by killing them in 1986.

Pardo's attorneys are trying to block his execution. They are arguing in federal appeals court that he is mentally ill, something his trial attorney believed more than two decades ago.

Pardo, a former Sweetwater police officer, was dubbed the “Death Row Romeo” after he corresponded with dozens of women and persuaded many to send him money.

Juice him...........

Manuel Pardo was pronounced dead at 7:47 p.m. last night at at Florida State Prison in Starke. Due to a reported malfunction of the death chamber’s sound system, reporters could not hear Pardo’s final words, but according to prison officials, he said “Airborne forever. I love you, Michi baby.” Michi, CBS News reports, is Pardo’s daughter.

JFC I'm sick of the race card. She murdered 3 people! Execute the bitch.

What a piece of garbage this whore is. I guess it wasn't ageist that her victims were little old ladies, or racist that she was married to the founder of the New Black Panther Party.

Christ, she killed the women and then cut her finger of to get the ring! Stole her car, and drove it get crack. Pawned the victim's jewelry and was caught with the victim's credit cards and ID.

But yeah, a white jury railroaded her.

Fuck her.