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[chrystaltree]

I wouldn't say he lucked out.  He's going to die in prison.  Even if the death sentence was in effect, it would not have happened for 20 years anyway.  If it ever happened.  The legal maneuvers are expected and commonplace.  Nothing is going to change for him.  He'll be in a cell wondering why he didn't just walk away from the marriage and get a divorce from the wife he didn't want.  

[Cakers3]

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@vsm wrote:

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@Goldengate8361 wrote:

In my opinion, life without parole is a harsher sentence. I am glad his death sentence was commuted; I am against the death penalty as a matter of principle and my values---for everyone no matter what the crime was that occurred.

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Peterson disagrees with you.  To him, the death penalty is the harsher sentence.  That's why he's been appealing his death sentence all these years. Giving this double murderer the sentence he prefers is against my principles.  No one supports the death penalty in every murder case -- only in especially heinous and aggravated cases, like this one. To oppose the death penalty in every case  -- even in cases of extreme depravity, like this one -- strikes me as profoundly unjust.  One would have to believe that in no case can a victim's life ever be worth as much as her killer's.  If the law requires that Peterson's death sentence be commuted, so be it.  But surely that's nothing to be "glad" about.

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@vsm   I am also against the death penalty but I am not "glad" it was commuted.  I am not in charge of the death penalty and I would accept the commutation not because of my belief but because it is how the system works.

I am also intrigued when people say that to be against the DP in all cases is unjust.

When do we decide when the DP is warranted and when it is not?

We all have our own bias and perceptions of crime and punishment.

As horrified I was about Laci and Connor, they murders didn't change my mind about the DP - not because I do not recognize the horror of it all but because I stand in my belief that the DP needs to applied equally across the board.

Either all lives deserve equitable and fair punishment or none at all.  To pick and choose which lives merit more severe punishment is what is unjust, imo.

My MIL was murdered.  I'll say no more.

[Cakers3]

I don't believe SP is afraid of the death penalty so much as he is not willing to give up his years of fame.  Once executed, he will be forgotten except by those who loved Laci and of course the unborn Connor.

Right now, in his twisted mind, he is a living legacy.  Once executed, that legacy can no longer be enjoyed by him.

[Teddixat]

@Kachina624    He's a POS

[Lucky Charm]

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@Cakers3 wrote:

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@vsm   I am also against the death penalty but I am not "glad" it was commuted.  I am not in charge of the death penalty and I would accept the commutation not because of my belief but because it is how the system works.

I am also intrigued when people say that to be against the DP in all cases is unjust.

When do we decide when the DP is warranted and when it is not?

We all have our own bias and perceptions of crime and punishment.

As horrified I was about Laci and Connor, they murders didn't change my mind about the DP - not because I do not recognize the horror of it all but because I stand in my belief that the DP needs to applied equally across the board.

Either all lives deserve equitable and fair punishment or none at all.  To pick and choose which lives merit more severe punishment is what is unjust, imo.

My MIL was murdered.  I'll say no more.

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You make a very good point that I've never actually thought about before.

[Love my grandkids]

@violann I never for a second thought there was *anything* the least bit attractive about him. Nothing. I just didn't see it.

[BoopOMatic]

According to The San Francisco Gate, Scott Peterson had been on San Quentin’s Death Row for less than one hour back in 2005 when the first phone call came in from a woman who wanted to marry him.

Over the course of the next 24 hours, San Quentin spokesman Vernell Crittendon said, nearly 40 more calls came in from other women, each offering support, assistance, money and, indeed, more wedding proposals.

....so much for how awful a life in prison will be. California also allows conjugal visits....

[chickenbutt]

I never got the 'he's so handsome' angle, either.   I remember hearing, ad nauseam, the same thing about Ted Bundy.  WHAT?   The guy had Charles Manson eyes!    Peterson is equally unattractive, in my view.

[JaneMarple]

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@Cakers3 wrote:

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@vsm wrote:

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@Goldengate8361 wrote:

In my opinion, life without parole is a harsher sentence. I am glad his death sentence was commuted; I am against the death penalty as a matter of principle and my values---for everyone no matter what the crime was that occurred.

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Peterson disagrees with you.  To him, the death penalty is the harsher sentence.  That's why he's been appealing his death sentence all these years. Giving this double murderer the sentence he prefers is against my principles.  No one supports the death penalty in every murder case -- only in especially heinous and aggravated cases, like this one. To oppose the death penalty in every case  -- even in cases of extreme depravity, like this one -- strikes me as profoundly unjust.  One would have to believe that in no case can a victim's life ever be worth as much as her killer's.  If the law requires that Peterson's death sentence be commuted, so be it.  But surely that's nothing to be "glad" about.

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@vsm   I am also against the death penalty but I am not "glad" it was commuted.  I am not in charge of the death penalty and I would accept the commutation not because of my belief but because it is how the system works.

I am also intrigued when people say that to be against the DP in all cases is unjust.

When do we decide when the DP is warranted and when it is not?

We all have our own bias and perceptions of crime and punishment.

As horrified I was about Laci and Connor, they murders didn't change my mind about the DP - not because I do not recognize the horror of it all but because I stand in my belief that the DP needs to applied equally across the board.

Either all lives deserve equitable and fair punishment or none at all.  To pick and choose which lives merit more severe punishment is what is unjust, imo.

My MIL was murdered.  I'll say no more.

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So sorry @Cakers3 for your family's loss.

[Lucky Charm]

@Cakers3  I totally missed your last sentence about your DMIL--your last papagraph really struck me.  But I'm adding my condolences to you and yours for your horrific loss.