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Jodi Arias guilty of 1st-degree murder

ChrisL said:
I see no reason to kill this girl. She is in custody and can't hurt anyone else. Why do some people want to kill her?
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She can hurt other people. She could kill again in prison, either guards or other prisoners, or she could escape and kill someone else. If she's given the death penalty, it is absolutely certain she'll never kill anyone else again.

Personally, I'm glad she was found guilty. Based on the information I saw she certainly seemed awfully guilty.
 
molten_dragon said:
She can hurt other people. She could kill again in prison, either guards or other prisoners, or she could escape and kill someone else. If she's given the death penalty, it is absolutely certain she'll never kill anyone else again.

Personally, I'm glad she was found guilty. Based on the information I saw she certainly seemed awfully guilty.
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I never said I didn't think she was guilty. I said the death penalty is an inappropriate punishment in this case. You cannot prove that she would kill again either. Your speculations don't really mean anything in the big picture of things. We can't kill people because of what we THINK they might do in prison.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
People in custody, especially people doing life with nothing to lose can and do kill again.
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Like I said, most riots where prison guards are killed are by non-lifers. What are going to do? Kill everybody who goes into prison just in case they might kill a guard? Come on, use your critical-thinking skills.
 
I should probably take a nap while I wait. ;)
 
SMTA said:
I don't think that she could cut it.
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she is lucky-they no longer use cyanide gas in arizona. two german brothers were convicted of first degree murder. At the time the prisoner could choose painless lethal injection or the excrutiatingly painful cyanide gas where the prisoner was executed wearing nothing more than an adult diaper. One chose the gas thinking the penalty would be thrown out as cruel and unusual

it wasn't

LaGrand case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Hatuey said:
If this had been a man, there would be little question about using the death penalty. I'm personally against it, but I won't shed a single tear for her.
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Damn, you beat me to it!

If a man had cornered his girl friend while she was naked in the shower, shot her in the face, slit her throat, then stabbed her 27 times in the chest, people wouldn't think twice about him facing the death penalty.

Personally, I think the DP is used too often, and is a manipulative tool to coerce defendents to plead guilty if it's taken off the table. I see primarily serial killers and mass murderers as the main focus for death. I'd prefer she get life in prison without possibility of parole. However, that sentence isn't possible in some states, and the last thing this woman deserves is to be back on the street in 25 years. She needs to never be free again.
 
DiAnna said:
Damn, you beat me to it!

If a man had cornered his girl friend while she was naked in the shower, shot her in the face, slit her throat, then stabbed her 27 times in the chest, people wouldn't think twice about him facing the death penalty.

Personally, I think the DP is used too often, and is a manipulative tool to coerce defendents to plead guilty if it's taken off the table. I see primarily serial killers and mass murderers as the main focus for death. I'd prefer she get life in prison without possibility of parole. However, that sentence isn't possible in some states, and the last thing this woman deserves is to be back on the street in 25 years. She needs to never be free again.
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I would still be against the death penalty. :shrug:
 
As I have been following this case for the past few months I have been truly disgusted by this women. She is subhuman garbage and I am glad that she has finally been convicted. She says she wants to die soon than later? Let her be punished and rot in prison for the rest of her wretched life.
 
TurtleDude said:
she is lucky-they no longer use cyanide gas in arizona. two german brothers were convicted of first degree murder. At the time the prisoner could choose painless lethal injection or the excrutiatingly painful cyanide gas where the prisoner was executed wearing nothing more than an adult diaper. One chose the gas thinking the penalty would be thrown out as cruel and unusual

it wasn't

LaGrand case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In Washington state ( they have to request it) we still hang people. Also Washington is the only state with an active Gallow.
 
Sensesfailed said:
Is it sad I have such little faith that I was expecting her to get off?

Probably just me. Either way, hope she enjoys prison
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No, it's actually logical that you thought that way. After Casey Anthony walked I could have seen it happening.
 
cpgrad08 said:
In Washington state ( they have to request it) we still hang people. Also Washington is the only state with an active Gallow.
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far more humane than cyanide gas and much quicker

one of my table tennis club members was from, IIRC, Malyasia. Years ago a fairly pretty 20 something British girl got caught smuggling heroin into that country. Even Lady Thatcher couldn't save her. She was hung. Pictures of her in a urine stained prison dress hanging were posted in airports over there with warnings to foreigners about smuggling narcotics in that area of the world
 
CanadaJohn said:
Good afternoon V1.1

I thought from the verdict there'd be a good chance she'd get the death penalty. They were 100% in agreement that she committed premeditated murder, they were just divided on whether or not she committed the murder during the course of a felony, that being breaking and entering the man's home. She seems entirely unsympathetic to me and Arizona doesn't strike me as a state where people give murderers a break.
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The U.S. executes very few women. It is actually rare. There are only 4 women currently on death row. She'll get the usual life sentence.
 
MarineTpartier said:
No, it's actually logical that you thought that way. After Casey Anthony walked I could have seen it happening.
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Arias certainly was confident, wasn't she?
 
fmw said:
The U.S. executes very few women. It is actually rare. There are only 4 women currently on death row. She'll get the usual life sentence.
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I hope so. I oppose the death penalty anyway, but Arias actually expressed one of my reasons. She said she wants her "freedom." That's exactly what I don't want her to have--the escape of death. Here's hoping that she lives a very long and very healthy life behind bars.
 
nota bene said:
I hope so. I oppose the death penalty anyway, but Arias actually expressed one of my reasons. She said she wants her "freedom." That's exactly what I don't want her to have--the escape of death. Here's hoping that she lives a very long and very healthy life behind bars.
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An excellent point.
 
Thank you.

Every time I've seen the post-conviction interview clip where Arias says this, I want to scream at the screen, "And THIS is EXACTLY why you shouldn't be given the death penalty!!"
 
ChrisL said:
I see no reason to kill this girl. She is in custody and can't hurt anyone else. Why do some people want to kill her?
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She deserves us to spend at least a million her, maybe two, but she might get a chance to kill another inmate saving us money or a guard, creating a new job for someone that needs one.
 
nota bene said:
Thank you.

Every time I've seen the post-conviction interview clip where Arias says this, I want to scream at the screen, "And THIS is EXACTLY why you shouldn't be given the death penalty!!"
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Especially since suicide is illegal in prison so there is nothing she could do about it.
 
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