The jury that convicted Lee Boyd Malvo of first degree murder today returned a recommendation of life without parole rather than imposing the death penalty. If there was ever a crime that deserved the death penalty more I don't know about it. I don't care if he was under the influence of John Muhammad the fact is that he callously shot a total stranger in the head for no good reason and then bragged about it after he was caught. IF justice is to be served we can only hope that he still faces trials for his other murders either in Virginia, Maryland, Alabama and Louisiana and that those jurors won't be swayed by Malvo's bleeding heart attorney. Preferably he will get the death penalty from another Virginia jury because Virginia, like Texas and Florida tends to actually follow through in carrying out the ultimate penalty. Virginia also still uses the electric chair rather than the so called "humane" option of lethal injection. Malvo is no more an innocent victim of brainwashing that Charles Manson's "family" of killers were. I would gladly throw the switch myself to rid the world of scum like Malvo and Muhammad.
"Lucky because he looks so young" I thought the Death Penalty was the main reason to have the first trials in Virginia. link
If you want revenge, life in prison is the best thing. Which would you rather have--your own cell away from the general population, a fancy last meal, and a needle in the arm? Or having to be some huge dude's "girlfriend" for the next sixty years?
Finally. Bestbank and I agree. Malvo's pretty little girly face is going to look real sweet to some 6'6" 300 pound lifer.
nah prison sounds bad, but death is worse. i bet most of the guys on death row would happily trade places with the lifers. i bet that chair or needle staring at you ever day is pretty damn scary. plus i dont feel like paying his food/lodging bill. i will pay for his gravedigger instead. and to paraphrase my favorite author HL mencken: some say it doesnt deter crime to hang murderers. so what? another scoundrel is dead, thats good enough.
Actually, he still faces trials in other jurisdiction in VA. So there is hope that he will get what he deserves!
How do you know he wasn't influenced by Muhamed? What was he, 16? This isn't some new liberal bleeding heart phenomenon. Charles Starkweather and his girfriend went on a killing spree in the 1950s - Starkweather was executed and the girl served some time and was released.
Re: Re: Cheating Death Of course he was influenced by Muhammad. Everybody is influenced to one degree or another sometime in their life by somebody. Charles Manson's killers were influenced by Manson. If you or I had listened to the people who tried to steer us in the wrong direction when we were 16 or 17 we would be dead or in prison. A person who has reached the age of 17 is capable of deciding for himself whether his actions are right or wrong. If Malvo had been influenced by Muhammad to rob a bank or to steal a car or something like that I could have some sympathy for him and hope he could straighten his life out. Lee Boyd Malvo whether influenced by Muhammad or not willfully and gleefully pulled the trigger not once but multiple times with total disregard for the human beings that he killed or maimed. When he was caught he bragged about it. He deserves no less than to pay the ultimate penalty and hopefully in subsequent trials for his murders in Virginia, Maryland, Alabama and in Baton Rouge the juries won't be swayed by his baby face and his innocent looks. Try telling the 13 year old kid Malvo shot who was in perfect health and only by a miracle survived and now faces a lifetime of disability that Malvo was "only following orders" when Malvo's bullet ripped though his torso causing massive damage to his internal organs. Of course Malvo was probably disapointed when the found out that the 13 year old black kid from a disadvantaged background similar to Malvo's own background who was being raised by a single mother wasn't dead. The only thing Malvo was sorry about was that he hadn't gotten off a better shot. Since the bleeding heart jury didn't have the balls to give Malvo the ultimate penalty I say that since he has been convicted of First Degree Murder they should immediatley put him into the general population of Virginia's toughest prison. I won't be long before Malvo wishes that he was dead.
