posted August 25, 2007 02:09 PM              

His death won't bring her back to life but it's something he deserves. I think he is getting off easy. They should bury his sorry a$$ alive.

quote:

---

At one point in their talk, Couey expressed regret, telling his aunt, "I kick myself in the butt a hundred times a day," adding, "I just keep asking myself, why were you so stupid?"

---

Doesn't sound "retarded" to me that he knew they would put him to death. He should be asking himself, not why he was so stupid, but why he is so evil.

Glad to see the world ridded of this b*stard!!

Couey Gets Death Penalty For Lunsford Murder
Judge Follows Jury Recommendation

POSTED: 1:50 pm EDT August 24, 2007
UPDATED: 5:58 pm EDT August 24, 2007

INVERNESS, Fla. -- A judge in Florida has agreed with a jury's recommendation and sentenced John Evander Couey to death for the kidnap, rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford.

The jury recommended on a 10-2 vote that Couey be executed.

It's a crime that led to new laws in many states cracking down on convicted sex offenders.

After the sentencing, sheriff's deputies quickly hustled Couey out of the courtroom, where the girl's father and other relatives embraced.

Couey buried the girl alive after kidnapping her from her bedroom and raping her. Her body was found about three weeks after she disappeared, in a grave in Couey's yard about 150 yards from her own home.

Couey's lawyers had argued that he couldn't legally be executed because he's mentally retarded, but the judge rejected that claim earlier this month.

The slain girl's father, Mark Lunsford, said his message for Couey is to "skip all these appeals" and "take your punishment."

The St. Petersburg Times reported earlier that the 49-year-old Couey told his aunt he expected to be sentenced to death.

The newspaper published excerpts from a jailhouse conversation that was recorded.

At one point in their talk, Couey expressed regret, telling his aunt, "I kick myself in the butt a hundred times a day," adding, "I just keep asking myself, why were you so stupid?"

He also told her he wants to be cremated.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

In advance I will say you can save your lectures on forgiveness and my attitude not being Christian and blah, blah, blah. I know those things and my attitude is human, not Christian when it comes to treating a baby or small child cruelly and inhumanely as if their little lives meant nothing. Besides, this man does not want forgiveness. He wants to be set free after a short sentence to continue his evil life of raping and killing children. Which is what normally happens and why I am so happy about the judge and jury's decision in this case.

posted August 26, 2007 01:37 AM            

All our "humane" methods of execution are actually much worse than say beheading or hanging (at least when "done right").

Not that I'll shed any tears for him.

Hopefully, he suffered much incarcerated, too. A friend of mine has a daughter that was sexually molested. She took her child to the sheriff's station and they had the girl call him, threatening to tell, and he repeated his threats to her, and it was all recorded. They arrested him, and he said that actually he was scared of the mom for being a "gun nut." (Like she'd let him off that easy by shooting him.)

Not that he could stop himself from "doing something stupid" anymore than this guy sentenced to death could. Like some are driven to do good, others are driven to do evil, even when it's not in their own best interest to do so.

Anyway, it was found that he'd molested other girls. One of those girls had an uncle in the same jail, and the uncle, along with his friends, took to inflicting all kinds of damage on him every single day, and the guards took a long time to "find the right key" to get in there to stop it. When he came into court, he was a mess and couldn't even walk correctly.

posted August 26, 2007 02:02 AM            

It breaks my heart to think of the pain she went through. In his testimony he kept promising to take her back to her parents. That was all she had to hold on to, until he put her in a bag, into a hole and buried her alive with her stuffed animal.

I wish the same torture for him. I hope that his conscious gets him for what he has done.