Malvo convicted of sniper murder

[Freddie Stubbs]

CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (CNN) -- Teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo was found guilty Thursday on all three counts against him, making him eligible for the death penalty.

The verdict came on the second day of deliberations in the trial after the judge denied jurors' request for another look at the car prosecutors say was used in the killings last fall in Washington, D.C., and outlying areas of Virginia and Maryland.

Jurors had asked Fairfax County Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush for permission to examine the 1990 Chevrolet Caprice for a second time after viewing it during Malvo's five-week trial.

Roush told jurors Thursday morning in a written response that the car "is not available for further inspections by you." She told jurors to rely on their recollections and any photographs or descriptions entered into evidence.

more: http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/12/18/sprj.dcsp.malvo.trial/index.html

[Blitz]

1. Good

Another monster off the streets; hopefully forever.

[Loonman]

2. Well, there it is

That's that.

[diamond14]

3. Virginia - a nine-commandment state - kills juveniles......(link)

here's a link to info about the death penalty...by state, and by costs...Virginia is right behind Texas for KILLING....

but I am proud to be from Michigan...a state with equally vicious criminals...a state that DOES NOT KILL....even in my hometown Detroit, Michigan...

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=121&scid=11
states who KILL, and states who believe 'thou shall NOT kill' and live by the commandments...



costs to KILL and more facts about KILLING by taxpayers....
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/


it cost LESS to imprison someone for their whole lives, than to KILL them...
Financial Facts About the Death Penalty:

Death penalty trials very costly relative to county budgets. Capital cases burden county budgets with large unexpected costs, according to a report released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, "The Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions," by Katherine Baicker. Counties manage these high costs by decreasing funding for highways and police and by increasing taxes. The report estimates that between 1982-1997 the extra cost of capital trials was $1.6 billion. (NBER Working Paper No. w8382, Issued in July 2001) Read the abstract.

Total cost of death penalty 38% greater than total cost of life without parole sentences. A study by Indiana's Criminal Law Study Commission found this to be true, assuming that 20% of death sentences are overturned and resentenced to life. (Indiana Criminal Law Study Commission, January 10, 2002)

North Carolina spends $2.16 million more per execution than on a non-death penalty murder case. The most comprehensive death penalty study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million more per execution than the a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of life imprisonment (Duke University, May 1993). On a national basis, these figures translate to an extra cost of over $1 billion spent since 1976 on the death penalty. The study,"The Costs of Processing Murder Cases in North Carolina" is available on line at www-pps.aas.duke.edu/people/faculty/cook/comnc.pdf.

Florida spends $51 million extra per year on death penalty. Florida would save $51 million each year by punishing all first-degree murderers with life in prison without parole, according to estimates by the Palm Beach Post. Based on the 44 executions Florida has carried out since 1976, that amounts to an approximate cost of $24 million for each execution. This finding takes into account the relatively few inmates who are actually executed, as well as the time and effort expended on capital defendants who are tried but convicted of a lesser murder charge, and those whose deathe sentences are overturned on appeal. (Palm Beach Post, January 4, 2000)

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. I am sure that some of the leading Democratic candidates for President

will come out in opposition to Malvo's execution.

[thebigidea]

6. I wonder how long...

... before the centrist crowd imagines that the "extreme left wing" are a bunch of "Malvo-advocates."

I don't recall much cheerleading for him, but since when did facts ever interfere with a good smear?

[BiggJawn]

4. So much for the "Svengali" defense....

So much for "being under Muhammed's Spell"...