Ex-Actor Gets Death for Yacht Slayings

I think the law was set up to punish people for murdering those who were partaking in the sacred act of being alive, probably for good reason too.

What type of work are you doing in Chicago?

Exactely! Many countries have a just as respectable justice system than the US, and this "Go america" flag waving on such a subject was totally misappropriate.
Besides that, VikHatBer's other comment on how "good" it is that some stay for 25 years in death row is something - sorry - I do not think should be glorified. This is close to torture, and the fact that is gives more time for appeal and appeal again (and eventually death penalty abandon) makes only the lawyers happy.
However: that the World gets rid of this sub-human forever is not something I am going to cry upon!
Sorry for having drifted away from yachting.

according to the article, then wife Jenny was just as culpable for this crime, but no mention is made of her sentence. i smell a plea.


Mike

Life with out parole

nice much better than death, especially for the young (and i am not an anti-death sentence mole) if we could get the appeals run through within 5 years, death penalty is the way to fly.

...hey kids, don't thank us, you have been such model citizens, it's the least we could do!


Mike

In California the #1 method of capitol punishment is old age.

This happened in my home town. Trial was just up the road from my house. They just returned the boat to the family after the trial. It's been in a city yard covered with shrink wrap.

The guy really is a monster.

Hey, hey..Watch yer words there city-slicker.

This country and many others was discovered by sailboaters while the stink-potters sat home going nowhere..

Show some respect and next time you see a "sailboater" take yer hat off and bow.

As for the subject of the thread and the death penalty:

If anybody "needed killing" as they say in Texas, it was this scumbag:
Life without the possibility of parole is probably worse and I would vote for that too.

Funny thing happened a bit over a hondred years ago....they invented motors. Some people just don't want to pay for fuel.

Yeah, easy to say when your clients are billed for the fuel, not you..

Hondred years ago the Norwegians were still rowing between the squalls.
Makes ya strong in the shoulders and the mind.

(What would Italians know about that anyways? )

Hey, if they'd rather go at 6 kts and pay my time that's cool too.
Oars, sails, paddles, motors, propellers....progress
(Italians??? )

Ha-ha, that would be the Family Italiano..Ya claim connections.

(Irish does not count..Them were not sailiors anyhow. )

While the rest of the world got around with sails and steam engines no doubt

The Modern Day Italians are descendants of the Romans and they knew quite a bit about rowing around the place even if they were just the ones giving the instructions to the actual ones manning the oars.

That's called leadership

Lazy dogs they were:

Probably driving Carvers and Sea-Rays in between practicing the gay lifestyle.

There was a great show regarding technology, hopefully i explain it correctly;

If we take the steam engine and continue to improve on it, it would eventually become as efficient as the internal combustion, and continue on improving. It was a fascinating aspect of technology i never thought about. If something does not replace the existing tech, it continues to improve until it can reach dizzying levels

Sailing for instance, Cat and trimarans ( actually improvements of very old polynesian Technology) now sail at speeds thought impossible a decade ago. Technology kept improving to allow even sail power to become competitive.

It will be interesting to see what sailing looks like in 100 years, what improvements in technology will bring.

they ought to lash the guy to the anchor and let him check the bottom just like the people he killed

Just in case you americans have a short memory and the Norse too, the US was discovered by Brother Brendan from Ireland, him and his buddies rowed from Ireland to the US.