Scott Peterson resentenced to life but no death penalty

[iemanja]

Scott Peterson, who was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn baby, was resentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for her death in 2002.

A judge also sentenced him to 15 years to life in prison for the death of the unborn baby, Conner. The sentences will run concurrently, the judge said.

Peterson, 49, spent more than 15 years on death row in California after he was found guilty in the murders. The state Supreme Court overturned his sentence last year after it was determined that jurors who disagreed with the death penalty were dismissed improperly...

Peterson has sought to have his conviction overturned, with his attorneys claiming that a juror known as Juror 7 was untruthful and hid details of her personal life that would have presented a conflict.

The juror, Richelle Nice, is accused of “prejudicial misconduct” because she did not disclose that she was the victim of domestic violence and had sought a restraining order in 2000 over fears that her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend would harm her unborn baby.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/scott-peterson-convicted-killing-pregnant-wife-laci-re-sentenced-life-rcna7909?fbclid=IwAR2-VP1_ZTL2nH7VMp6okToXeSKZ4x_18hLjQhtO3Dv8ciNsCuy3v0EODW0

Some of you may be old enough to remember when this trial dominated the news, much as OJ's did before it.

I'm anti-death penalty so think it's fine that he is no longer on death row. Thoughts?

[abqtommy]

2. I generally oppose the death penalty except when I don't. I have heard/read that it

costs less to house an inmate for life than it does to execute them so that's a consideration too.

[USALiberal]

3. The government should not be killing anyone! Nt

[Torchlight]

5. I'd confine it to the state should not kill civilians and non-combatants.

Otherwise, the nation would have been overrun many, many times by enemy nations.

[demigoddess]

4. fine by me to not execute him,but for killing a child,

maybe solitary confinment for 15 or 20 years.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Abolish the death penalty.

[LeftInTX]

7. Well, I'm glad they didn't give him a new trial and turn him lose

[marmar]

8. I'm against the DP without equivocation.....

..... even for a sleaze like Peterson. It's state-sanctioned murder. A society does not get any better by doing the thing it purports to despise.

[Lovie777]

9. He killed his pregnant wife . . .

for another woman.

[iemanja]

10. Did they ever identify another woman?

I don't recall that.

[BlackSkimmer]

11. Yes, Amber Frey was her name I think.

His goose was cooked when they played recordings of his phone call to her pretending he was in Paris for New Years. He talked about the fireworks.

He was actually at a vigil for his wife. Psychopath.

[LoisB]

12. Yes, Amber Frey.

He was even on the phone with her while he was at his wife's vigil.

[iemanja]

13. Oh, right

Now I remember.