ATLANTA - A rape defendant accused of killing a judge and three others during and after his escape from the downtown courthouse pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder charges that could bring the death penalty.
Can we try him with the Wendy's chili lady? I've always wanted to see a double-execution. She can sit on the nice rapist's lap.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams
but look at it this way. If he pleads not guilty he might have an extra year of life.
Pleading guilty immediately moves the trial to the sentencing phase. The State is not going to let him plead down the sentence from Death to Life, so he has no incentive to plead guilty.
Pleading not guilty means there is a trial, which slows his sentencing down, which means he lives more days on planet earth.
A trial gives him more time to "Find Jesus" thus giving himself an edge up with the religious right to start picketing for his reprieve
he already "found Jesus", that was the whole reason he turned himself in. THe woman was reading him passages from "A Purpose Driven Life", and he agreed to let her go see her daughter, she escaped, she called the cops.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams
A 9-year-old girl was raped, bound and buried alive, kneeling and clutching a purple stuffed dolphin, state prosecutors said in documents released Wednesday.
Jessica died of asphyxiation, according to a coroner's report. A convicted sex offender, John Evander Couey, 46, is charged in her slaying. He has pleaded not guilty.