CNN analyst smacks down Nancy Grace’s bloodlust: ‘Executing people is not the only form of justice’

[KamaAina]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/cnn-analyst-smacks-down-nancy-graces-blood-lust-executing-people-is-not-the-only-form-of-justice/

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explained to HLN’s Nancy Grace on Thursday that life in prison was an appropriate punishment for murder because “executing people is not the only form of justice.”...

“This was a tough case on the death penalty,” Toobin agreed. “It wasn’t a tough case on guilt, it was quite obvious that Jodi Arias was guilty. I think it was a very questionable decision on the part of the prosecution to go back a second time for another very expensive trial on the death penalty to receive precisely the same result, a hung jury.”...

“You could have heard a pin drop in that courtroom, and immediately you could hear it building, the gasps from the victim’s family on the front row,” Grace insisted. “They immediately bent over, doubled in their seats, physically bent over and began crying out in pain.”

“And I always find it very interesting when pundits say, ‘Well, this cost a lot of money, and it wasn’t really a good decision.’ It’s like they’re buying a car or they’re making some kind of investment in their fidelity fund,” she snarled with out mentioning Toobin by name. “Well, you know what? Violent crime is not like that. We are talking about people’s lives. We are talking about a family who lost Travis Alexander.”

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

Which is an axiom that Nancy obviously never fathomed.

[tularetom]

2. Well, boo fucking hoo for her

I feel for victims families in cases like this and if executing their murderer would bring them back to life, I would enthusiastically endorse universal application of the death penalty.

Unfortunately, the mythical "closure" that is cited as a reason for application of the death penalty does not exist and victim's families are just as bitter after the perp has been fried.

I have to say I'm not opposed to the DP in all cases, but using "closure" as justification is simply buillshit.

[winstars]

3. Nancy Grace must have listened to the late, great Robin Harris... "Gotta Go, Gotta Go"

She is so horrible, I thought a little humor could help.