Jury: Peterson Deserves Death

American Voices

December 22, 2004 | ISSUE 40•51

Last week, jurors recommended that Scott Peterson be sentenced to death for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci. What do you think?

Let this be a warning to psychopaths with photogenic wives everywhere.

Pedro Fernandez
Baggage Porter
What about Laci's fetus' potential children, and those childrens' children? Folks, this was way more than a double-homicide.

Derrick Watts
Systems Analyst
What's going on? I've been busy trying to keep up with the thousands of other murders that took place this year. I'm a bit out of the loop on the Peterson case.

Sherry Morrison
Cashier
This story had everything—sex, death, and now death once again. I would've appreciated some more sex, also.

Rich Hale
Bartender
What am I supposed to tell my daughter when she asks, 'Why do exhaustively drawn-out things happen to bad people?'

Warren Jacobs
Ship Captain
Finally, the death of little Connor, the fetus with no personality, will be avenged.

Florence Norris
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