Too Little, Too Late
So, Scott Peterson is found guilty. Now the jury returns to recommend the death penalty. Here’s my problem with the defense appeal and plea.
“…Geragos begged jurors to spare his client, saying a life sentence would mean that Peterson would not stand a chance of getting out of prison.
“He will stay in that cell every single day until he dies,” Geragos said. “There does not need to be any more death in this case.”
No more death, except to Caliornia pocketbooks to feed and protect the bastard!
Per the third quarter CDC stats:
-Number of inmates in California prisons with life without parole: 30,392
-Cost of a single excecution in the State of California: cost of housing the inmate plus minimal cost for the actual lethal injection excecution.
-Cost of keeping an inmate alive for the usual 20 years he waits on death row: $618,580, minimum.
Putting it on the California taxpayers’ tab? Priceless. Those starving kids didn’t need to eat anyway, as long as Scott Peterson stays in prison for life, right? Maybe instead of full cable TV privilages, they should limit him to QVC and HSN.
Update: Using the lame-ass defense attorney as an appeal loophole. Way to go, Geragos.
