Nearly four months after his arrest in the disappearance of a missing University of Virginia student, Jesse Matthew Jr. has been indicted on a murder count in the case - but he won't face the death penalty and still has not been charged in the death of another student.
Matthew, 33, is charged with first-degree murder and abduction with intent to defile, Albemarle County prosecutor Denise Lunsford said Tuesday. Hannah Graham, 18, disappeared in September and was found dead in the county a few weeks later.
Lunsford declined to explain why Matthew was not charged with capital murder, which would have carried a possible death sentence. The abduction and first-degree murder charges are punishable by up to life in prison.
"A great deal of serious thought went into this determination, including the impact on the community, the Grahams and the need to provide Mr. Matthew with a fair trial," Lunsford said.
Darrel Puckett, the chief prosecutor in Appomattox County, said one of the many factors typically considered in weighing murder charges is Virginia's automatic appeal in death penalty cases. In the 2010 case of a mentally deranged man who killed eight people, Puckett declined to seek the death penalty in part because of the likelihood that a conviction would be reversed.
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Someone needs to see to it that he dies in prison. The DA??? That's another story. She needs to be thrown out on her keister.
ReplyDeleteSomeone needs to see to it that he dies in prison.
DeleteHe will be kept as he should have a large butt for his buddies to exercise upon.
Sadly, I hear a quite a few of those beasts in prison actually like the butt excercises. So they get fed, watch tv, play basketball, do drugs, and have sex. All on our dime.
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DeleteThis legend of Julia Love I read several yrs. ago always haunted me. The original
ReplyDeletestory is no longer on the net as I believe the family had it removed. This poor
girl was tortured relentlessly and wrapped her body in barbed wire alive though it is
now said to be coat hangers. The savage was on death row for twenty yrs.with
appeal after appeal. But, finally, sweet death. Two civil rights judges were sent
bombs in the mail as the civil rights judges tried to get the death sentence removed.
The ex-girlfriend who participated in the torture got immunity. The original story
I read was the truth and horrific.
Goodness, I just searched and couldn't find anything.
DeleteSorry. I meant to leave this link. I read the story about three/four yrs ago
Deletewhen somebody told me her story. I never forgot what this poor girl went
thru and this article does not even come close.
http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Murder_of_Julie_Love
Thanks and don't know how there can be such degenerates in the world, but am glad he is gone, but should be an eye for an eye or worst. Death by 1,000 Cuts might suffice.
DeleteOne entry on the bombs sent to the civil scum. Back when people
Deletestood for something.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/29/us/letter-to-tv-threatens-more-bombings-in-south.html
I hadn't read that. Thanks.
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