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http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/13/peterson.case/index.html

 

Cheers went up outside the courtroom as the jury announced its decision after 11 1/2 hours of deliberations over three days.

 

The jury had two options in deciding the 32-year-old former fertilizer salesman's fate: life in prison without parole or death by injection.

 

Peterson clenched his jaw when the verdict was read but showed no other emotion, The Associated Press reported.

 

Judge Alfred A. Delucchi will formally sentence Peterson on February 25. The judge has the option of reducing the sentence to life, but such a move in California is highly unlikely.

 

If Delucchi upholds the sentence, Peterson will be sent to death row at San Quentin State Prison outside San Francisco, the infamous lockup where prisoners gaze out small cell windows overlooking the same bay where Laci Peterson's body was discarded.

 

Eh?

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Peterson still might not be executed for decades, if ever. That is because California's death row has grown to house about 650 condemned men and women since the state brought back capital punishment in 1978, according to the AP.

 

Since then, only 10 executions have been carried out -- the last one in 2002. It can take years for even the first phase of the appeals process to begin.

 

Woo. :dozey:

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Originally posted by CapNColostomy

Yay team! And yay for pork chop sammiches!

 

:confused:

 

You need some help, CapN...this pork chop sandwich addiction you have is disrupting your life. For the love of God, think of the children* here!

 

*Which are all FBI Agents, but nevermind that.

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Originally posted by ckcsaber

After watching every single episode of Oz, I'd say i'ts funny.

 

 

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true, monsters get what monsters give. :) Karma's a bitch. If peterson really did this (which I'm pretty sure he did) He'll get his in the end, and I feel very confident in that assumption. ;)

 

and noone give me that ass-u-me crap.

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