We are a Barbaric Country-- should we kill her or not?

[trumad]

Tablioid shit on the networks working up ratings with this Jody Arias shit.

Fucking disgusting!

[graham4anything]

1. I have to say I never heard of this case til last week. Zimmy should be found guilty to the max.

Don't know this case, so cannot comment on what sentence.

Important question would be-
would she do this again?

Zimmy would do the same thing again, as it was not person specific, much like the killer of Lennon.
That has to be taken into thinking whether life or not.

(regardless of the charges being death or life or whatever.)

So, would she do this again if released? Would she be a threat in jail to others?

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Yes, she would. She's a sociopath. She lacks a conscience and has no remorse.

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. So John Lennon's murder was a random act?

[graham4anything]

24. His first choice was Johnny Carson, and he had a few other choices that he wanted before.

[cherokeeprogressive]

26. So it wasn't a random act?

[graham4anything]

27. I have no idea what angle you are playing, but I don't play NRA circular arguments. Have a beautiful

but very chilly (upper 40s, lower 50s NJ afternoon, on this glorious weekend, where the NJ shore is back in business
after Hurricane Sandy, though nobody much will be in the water today, Monday looks glorious

[cherokeeprogressive]

33. "...not person specific, much like the killer of Lennon."

[cherokeeprogressive]

34. "His first choice was Johnny Carson, and he had a few other choices that he wanted before."

Best abdication I've ever seen here.

[Inkfreak]

40. I swear that poster is a parody. Like an snl skit. n/t

[onehandle]

2. We are five minutes until snuff reality shows appear. nt

[HappyMe]

3. She's barbaric.

I'm sick of her lying, manipulative ass. At this point, I really don't care. As long as she's never free again.

[Sissyk]

21. Yep.

Did you see the interview with the Jury Foreman this morning? He said he believed Travis was verbally abusive???? I'm like WTF! She manipulated the jury just like Juan told them she would.

One thing though; she can't get rid of that First Degree Murder Conviction during this retrial of the penalty phase. Plus, no more interviews.

[HappyMe]

25. I saw some of it.

She makes a mockery of all the victims of true abuse.

[Union Scribe]

35. I guess the state's lucky to have gotten Murder One

with that brain surgeon as foreman.

[geek tragedy]

4. Can we sentence her to be ignored and then forgotten? nt

[Sissyk]

22. Believe it or not,

I think that would be the absolute worst punishment for her. Life in prison with no chance of parole. No interviews, tv, pcs. 23 hours per day all alone in her cell.

Maybe then, she can start to feel sorry for what she did.

[Skidmore]

41. I suspect that remorse is something

she is incapable of feeling in any circumstance. If you listen to her carefully you will note that the only person she is able to show concern about is herself.

[Sissyk]

42. Actually,

I believe you are correct.

[clarice]

32. Ditto. nt

[marmar]

5. That's sick, in a Roman Colosseum way.

Death as spectacle. Disgusting.

[Katashi_itto]

11. Hardly, those were simply old fashioned reality shows.

[HiPointDem]

6. it is the 3-minute hate, for real. only it's like the 5-hour hate, every day, on & on.

the obsession with arias is pathological.

[11 Bravo]

8. Lock her in a room with Nancy Grace. Either Arias or the Flaring Nostrils of Death ...

won't emerge from that room in one piece. I would consider either result a net plus for society.

[progressoid]

20. +1

[H2O Man]

9. No.

I think that the case is interesting. Thus, I have followed it on HLN and TruTV.

The case includes numerous issues that I think are worthy of our attention. These include: the court process -- things such as the rules that determine what evidence may be introduced or excluded from the trial; how "domestic violence" is not exclusively male on female; how "expert witnesses" are often prostitutes; and the issues involving "mental health" -- including the differences between major mental illnesses, personality disorders, and sociopathy.

I agreed with the jury that the prosecution proved its case in both of the first two phases of the trial. Thus, if I believed in the death penalty, Jodi Arias would be an ideal candidate. But I do not believe that the state has the right -- or, even if it does, should ever exercise the right to kill human beings. I do respect the right of others to hold opposing views.

[Union Scribe]

36. I thought AZ's court rules were intriguing

especially the jury asking witnesses questions. I wish they were allowed to do that everywhere.

[MineralMan]

10. Simple. I oppose the death penalty absolutely.

The government should not be in the business of executing criminals. Period.

[tblue]

28. Me too.

Doesn't matter who it is. (I sometimes feel I could wring a person's neck for some heinous crime against a child or an animal, but I never would do it.) I don't want state-sponsored executions either.

[Bake]

12. I oppose the DP

But some people don't need to live.

Tough call.

Bake

[gopiscrap]

13. Agreed we shouldn't even have the death penalty!

[ladjf]

14. No to capital punishment. nt

[Eleanors38]

15. More than ever, we are a celebrity culture. She is a CelebroPunk™. Ergo...nt

[randome]

16. Generally no, but she has said she doesn't want to live so...

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[MindPilot]

17. Do we really want to the state to act as an agent of retribution?

I'd like to think that as a culture we are advancing beyond that kind of barbarism, but the level of blood-lust is disturbing. It is especially disturbing to see so much of it on DU.

They might as well be shouting "burn the witch!"

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Not.

No death penalty, period.

[Rex]

19. If legal killings were televised, it would be the highest rated show

on TVEE. Forever. People love bloodlust.

[closeupready]

29. Rome's barbarity gave birth to Catholicism,

which at least - in terms of dogma - rejects capital punishment in almost every single case.

[leveymg]

30. Only if she doesn't drown.

[deaniac21]

31. Build a bridge out of her.

[davidn3600]

37. O'er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave!

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[GeorgeGist]

38. Who?

[YeahSureRight]

39. No she should not be murdered by the state but sadly she mostly likely will

and millions will cheer the state on for murdering one of its citizens.

Hopefully within my lifetime America will no longer have the largest prison system in the world and the state will no longer murder its citizens.

I am not holding my breath with America being a Christian nation and all state sanctioned murder is well right popular with the majority of the blood thirsty population!

[Avalux]

43. People are obsessed with it.

Arias is quite a character, and at every opportunity has given the media fodder to use. They love her.

Best punishment - isolation with no further opportunity to be heard. She wants to do "good works" while in prison but only to make headlines and feed her massive, psychopathic ego.

Being forced to live out the rest of her life on permanent 'ignore' is what she deserves.