Serial killer begs for his life...
Published Fri, Dec 1 2006 5:13 PM
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Robert Yates Jr. thinks it's not fair that he has received the death penalty when Gary Ridgway didn't. Boo-hoo. Just because he plea-bargained for his life in Spokane, Walla-Walla, and Skagit county over the murder of thirteen women he thinks it's unfair that he received the death penalty for the two other women he murdered in Pierce county.
Was it fair to the fifteen women he murdered? Does it matter that Gary Ridgeway killed 48 women and escaped the death penalty but this murderer didn't escape? Both of these bits of offal deserve to die in horrible and brutal ways.
OLYMPIA -- Convicted serial killer Robert Yates Jr. asked the state Supreme Court Thursday to throw out his death sentence and take a fresh look at how capital punishment is applied in Washington.
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Yates was sentenced to die for fatally shooting two Tacoma women, not for killing far more victims elsewhere.
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During a hearing that ran well over four hours, all nine justices weighed in repeatedly, peppering both sides with questions.
The high court gave no indication how or when it will rule.
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Under a plea agreement put together by Spokane County, Yates pleaded guilty to killing 10 women in Spokane County, two in Walla Walla County and one in Skagit County. The death penalty was off the table, and Yates, 54, was sentenced to 408 years in prison.
But John Ladenburg, then the Pierce County prosecutor, decided to prosecute Yates separately for the two Tacoma-area deaths. The jury convicted him of aggravated murder and Yates was sentenced to death.
Source: Supreme Court hears death sentence case
Isn't it sickening how someone can brutally murder and murder again, but suddenly thinks it's unfair that they themselves have to die? Some people may find life in prison a harsh enough sentence but I don't. I only regret that Robert Yates Jr. doesn't have fifteen lives to give for the ones he took.
Death isn't good enough for these inhuman scum.
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