Sentenced to death.

Much rejoicing from me.

I believe life in prison would have been better (without parole.)

I dunno, I would've been happy either way.

I would have preferred life in prison, for moral reasons, but I can't say I feel sorry for him

I guess it depends on individual opinions. Many people feel that the death penalty is the "easy way out" while others believe its the "ultimate punishment." When Timothy McVeigh was executed, many people felt (especially families of victims) that they were not emotionally fulfilled.

I say CA should have a new type of execution: Hippies singing how capital punishment is wrong. Of course, the process takes a long time because the convict has to kill himself but it should work.

I'm all for burying him alive.

voteed damn straight, wante to vote meh, but found that a meh option was lacking.

Life would have been better, but hey, I'm easy.

Life would have sucked big time in prison as he would have taken a lot of crap from other prsioners for being a wife killer.

We should he get less than what he gave to the person he murdered?

BEcasue being in prsion for life tagged as a wife and baby killer would be a lot more cruel and painful than being killed.

yet you complian when people insult your oppinion after you insult their's. you hypocrite!

Because, being sentenced for so long in prison, as Avenger mentioned, would be a better punishment. So, day after day of staying in a cell, confined without a chance to see the real world anymore, without anything to look foward in the next day, marked as a murderer for the rest of his life, death may seem as a sort of a "gift." I believe that he may (although I'm no expert of the criminal mind) want to end his meaningless life (sooner or later) instead of dragging it along for years and years and years (take a note how "young" he is).

I voted "This is an outrage" because the system has failed. An affluent, white male is going to be put to death.

Regardless whether or not it is just to give the death sentence, I feel compelled to criticize those who are "happy" about it.

It's really none of your business what happens to him. It was his mistake, not yours. It was Laci Peterson's family, not yours. You are in no way involved with this nor do you benefit. You can advocate the death penalty all you want (I used to, but the only thing I got from my Social Justice class was that I'm very skeptical of its use now), but don't be "happy"... about its use. An ideal world would have no one being murdered---government sponsered or private. That would be happy.

The fact that the death penalty is necessary at all proves that the Scott Peterson case is sad in more than one way (specifically the trouble it means that the family has gone through), hardly the appropriate thing to be happy towards.

I say slice his head off and throw him off a bridge.

I never gave a damn to begin with.

I still don't give a damn.

Yeah.. Im pretty much appauled because peterson was convicted, and sentranced on about 95% circumstancial evidence, and I think convicting him at all is an outrage, let alone killing him.

^Somewhat agree. I wasn't one to follow the coverage all that much, people die every day, some pregnant, most not. Just that a murderer being sentenced to death is one of the few things I respect in our justice system.

So much for 'civilized society'

I concur.

I was refferring to you, in part.

Shock!

I thought that as well. I'm not doubting that he did it, but I never really heard or read anything that implied anyhting beyond circumstancial evidence.

The death penalty carries and automatic appeal in California, so this case is far from over.

Who is he?

I know, thats why I agreed. :p

Mikus, his pregnant wife disappeared and was found with her head cut off one day near where he had been fishing earlier (few weeks maybe?) Turns out later he had a mistress, and disappeared while being sought after. Suffice to say, him running from the FBI didn't help his innocence.

Come on people. This is what I don't get. I've been watching cases like this for years on A&E. Mass shootings, repeated arson, and double homocide of a mother and her child. This is nothing new. But for some reason the media gets off on covering news stories like this and others.

People Die! That's what we do. It doesn't matter if you fall off a cliff or are murdered by your husband, but selecting this specific story and focusing on it warrants no other explanation than to drag us away from the real issues going on with the country.

The pregnant woman who was murdered last year in Massachussetts never even got a soundbyte from any of the major network stations.

I can gaurantee that if Laci Peterson had been ugly and 200 pounds heavier, America would not have given a wash to whether she had been killed or not. This is what national journalism has come down to, just one more example of how Americans are being undermined by the powers to be.

I don't like this eye for an eye stuff...I feel like an ancient roman.

I agree with Echoman, since I dont believe in the death penalty, but killing your own wife who is pregnant is pretty bad. I'm happy his sentence is strong, but I would have preferred life without parole. I think he would have suffered longer that way.

I agree with thauruin, I watch American Justice and Cold Case Files all the time, there are crimes equal to this, if not more appauling, yet they do not get any coverage.

In addition, I find the people that were cheering outside the courthouse as disgusting or more disgusting than Scott Peterson himself. I guarantee that Laci's family wasn't in that group cheering, they probably were crying because no matter what result they got, their girl was still dead.

good point. This is why when some bum gets hit by a car, the most you ever see is a one-liner in the obituaries.

Hey what about that one Asian-American (AKA "fellow deer hunter") that gunned down several deer hunters? He went after people who fled from him and coldy gunned them down from behind... he even shot a woman point-blank when she begged for her life.

This would have been the hate crime of the century if some minority hunting party was shot up, but if a minority kills a group of white people, well... "it was a cultural misunderstanding. And now for more breaking news about HGHs in Major League Baseball." And yet, are we not surprised that this was but a blip on the news? People of any race being killed in such a fashion is much more news-worthy than Barry Bonds being accused of using HGHs by Jason Giambi.

I have to agree with thauruin on this one. It's not just with murders, it's like that in every aspect of national jounalism in America. The often negative, biased slants are overwhelming, if not depressing.

I saw the comments of some guy related to the victim and he was spouting a bunch of crap about god and justice. Way to go, dip****.

The 12 who sentenced him will have to live with themselves, and it won't be easy. That's all I have to say.

I've been intentionally not following the case, because I really don't like the sensationalism this case has gotten. So I don't know either way about the conviction.

However, sentencing someone to death just for a double murder is too strong. I'm not really a fan of the death penalty, but if you have to use it, use it on serial killers.

I want him to die in the most painful and slowest painful manner.

Hey, that's pretty cool.

Thumbs up for California.

If he had been sentenced to Life, most likely he would not have been housed with the general population. He'd be housed with "special needs" people, such as former police officers that get sent to prison. With his death sentence, it'll probably take up to 20 years in California before his appeal process is over. Life in prison is actually cheaper on the tax payers than a death sentence.

I guess I am going to be the *******. Hate me if you will, but he is a wife killer and a baby killer. I can see how life in prison would be a very nice punishment..but the **** does not deserve to live on this earth. I hope they stick the needle in him till he bleeds.


OH, I am against the death penalty..but right now I have some odd rage, and I hate this man to death.

The last power in the world that I want our government to have is the power to kill its citizens.