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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAccused Colorado clinic shooter intends to plead guilty, expects execution: report
Source: Reuters
US | Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:14am EST
Accused Colorado clinic shooter intends to plead guilty, expects execution: report
DENVER | BY KEITH COFFMAN
The man accused of fatally shooting three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last year told a Denver television station that he wants to plead guilty and expects to be executed, the CBS affiliate reported on Wednesday.
In a phone call from the El Paso County jail where he is being held without bond, Robert Lewis Dear told a reporter with KCNC-TV that he wants to act as his own lawyer and is willing to pay for his crimes.
Well, Im just an honest man and I believe Im guilty so I am just going to plead guilty, he said. Id say that they are going to execute me.
Dear, 57, stands accused of 179 felony counts, including charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and assault stemming from the Nov. 27 attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs that also wounded nine.
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Accused Colorado clinic shooter intends to plead guilty, expects execution: report
DENVER | BY KEITH COFFMAN
The man accused of fatally shooting three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last year told a Denver television station that he wants to plead guilty and expects to be executed, the CBS affiliate reported on Wednesday.
In a phone call from the El Paso County jail where he is being held without bond, Robert Lewis Dear told a reporter with KCNC-TV that he wants to act as his own lawyer and is willing to pay for his crimes.
Well, Im just an honest man and I believe Im guilty so I am just going to plead guilty, he said. Id say that they are going to execute me.
Dear, 57, stands accused of 179 felony counts, including charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and assault stemming from the Nov. 27 attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs that also wounded nine.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-plannedparenthood-idUSKCN0US0L820160114
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Eugene
Jan 2016
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hlthe2b
(102,297 posts)1. He deserves it, but I think CO is moving away from DP & it is unlikely to be his sentence...
While a lifelong opponent to the DP, this guy's case surely would meet my criteria, if I were not.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)2. Life without parole, letting him quietly rot, would be so, so much better.
He wants the circus and the drama of the death penalty, the clemency hearings, the last-minute stays, and all of the trappings. He wants martyrdom. All the other reasons to oppose the DP aside, don't give him what he wants.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)3. Yep. Pitch him into a dungeon
in a supermax and let him rot in anonymity.