I was just on the Arizona Department of Corrections website looking at conditions for Death Row inmates >snip<
strangely they have a list up of executed people and their last meals .. I don't know about you guys but if I was having a last meal it would be a lot more extravagant than these guys chose....
http://www.azcorrections.gov/inmate...=Executed&SearchDescLabel=Executed Since 1992
I don't care if it's their last night on earth. That's the consequence they face for murder. I would provide them a hot stinking pile of cow manure if I had my way but that would somehow violate their Constitutional rights. No "cruel and unusual" punishment yet they meted out the ultimate in "cruel and unusual" to their victims. The victims had no last wishes or last meals or any opportunity to say goodbye. F 'em, I hate them. Let them die starving, cold and worried.
The section I was most interested in was how long it took to execute and you're all right: at least 10 years. Maybe on some level that's good because the agony is prolonged for them. Will it be this year? Will I get another reprieve? Will they commute the sentence? The best would be on the day of execution, they can sit in that cell and count down the minutes until they hear the footsteps coming for them. And THEN, maybe THEN, they'll have an iota of a clue what their victims felt during their last seconds.
I guess I'm not conflicted on the DP anymore.
ITA-The guards have heard the 3 statement Travis called her,She is going to use her sexuality like no tomorrow in their to get her *favors*
It will be the only way Jodi will be able to fend off the other inmates. That or she lets herself become Big Bald Bertha's B&tch.
There's no way Jodi had a perfect or stable childhood, yet turned out like this. Before the murder she had a life of meaningless jobs, dabbling in dumb things, relationships that didn't pan out, she dropped out of school (her mom had to sign for that). She kicked her mom in anger. She kicked the dog in anger. She's a product of divorce. I just feel there's something that happened which caused her not to trust people and to have a fiery resent towards her mother. None of it is a excuse of course, but everyone owning up to the reality of things would give the psych community more insight to the "nature vrs nurture" argument.
>snip< BBM
There are more people out there right now who've had a string of meaningless jobs, done incredibly stupid things, had relationships & FRIENDSHIPS that failed, were even grade school dropouts and they manage quite nicely to avoid kicking their parents, abusing animals and using human beings as outlets for their unresolved issues.
No one has a "perfect" childhood but many have happy/warm/safe-secure-stable childhoods that are uneventful outside of the usual teen angst or getting into trouble with friends or roaring battles with their parents over the usual things we think are major deals when we're young. And those from stable backgrounds, even privileged backgrounds turn out just like Jodi.
I don't believe her childhood had much to do with the choices she made as an adult. I think she suffered from Entitlement Syndrome and that's pretty much it.
Kristi Koslow, the Menendez brothers, Robin, Kurt & Bill Rouse, Robert Durst, George Huguely, Jean Harris, Elliot Turner, Robert Chambers and on and on and on. These people probably had a more privileged background than most and yet they committed murder and immediately blamed someone else for "making them do it." Louise Woodward had no trauma in her childhood yet she thought it was perfectly ok to shake poor helpless Matthew Eappen to death, then have her DT blame Matthew's working mother but I digress. Most notably and recently, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev & Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Dzhokhar attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, one of the most prestigious high schools here. No idea what their childhoods were really like but they had advantages like Jodi did. Her family owned several restaurants when she was growing up and she certainly had no problems enjoying that lifestyle while it lasted.
Lots have "idyllic" and "stable" childhoods, commit horrible crimes and then blame it on <fill in the blank>.
I'm NOT a fan but I have to bring in Oprah. If anyone had a perfect "excuse" to act out and be generally obnoxious and victimized, she did. Can't begin to imagine that kind of abuse and well, no need to overstate the obvious regarding overcoming childhood traumas without turning into a murderess and blaming it on anyone/thing other than herself.
P.S. I do not believe Jodi's parents are divorced.
I really land firmly on the DP for JA as I know it's what the family wants. She'll not be executed for decades if ever. She will get the best of the best legal help along the way and other amenities only reserved for death row celebrities. But it's the quality of life while she's there that will truly be punishment for her.
Personally knowing what the DP appeals process drags families thru and the taxpayer $ wasted on these demons, I wish there was a LWOP that included the death row lifestyle for lack of a better word.
Urgh. I know. Going through the countless appeals process vs driving to parole hearings over and over to prevent the monster's release. One of our neighbors is going through this right now. There is nothing to bring solace when every "T" must be crossed and every "I" dotted to protect the monster's rights.
People think apprehension and conviction = closure. Nice little word that makes people think you can put it behind you because the monster's been caught and will pay, finally. There is no closure. Ever. You just find better bandages every few years.