One little point I want to put out there. Multiple people testified how Brendt’s execution would “devastate” his relatives. I’m sure it would. I feel badly for his family; none of them wanted this, none of them did this or promoted it, or had anything to do with it in any way, shape or form. It’s awful for them, and I don’t envy them. Their suffering is real, but they get much less sympathy for it, even though none of it is their fault.
However, should he be executed, there is one thing that will help them. There is one small mercy that will be afforded them; one small island of peace in an otherwise vast ocean of sadness:
They’ll get his body back........
They will indeed get his body back....
And it won’t be kidnapped, bound, raped, tortured, strangled, stabbed, decapitated and/or dismembered. There won’t be a trial in another country where they don’t speak the language to sit through. They won’t have to listen to a graphic description of how he left this earth or WHY.
He hasn’t spoken to his family since 2013 while yingying spoke to her family almost daily via phone and/or internet.
This jury is central Illinois. Salt of the earth hard working people with addicts and criminals in their friends or families... but cold blooded premeditated sadistic murderers...they will have no patience.
Michelle...I’ve said all along...sadistic passive accomplice.