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Date Posted: 03:13:52 08/08/07 Wed
Author: Terry
Subject: John Couey eliglble for execution.

INVERNESS, Florida (AP) -- A convicted sex offender found guilty of kidnapping, raping and burying alive a 9-year-old neighbor is not mentally retarded and is eligible for the death penalty, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Defense attorneys for John Evander Couey, 48, argued that he suffered lifelong mental abuse and possessed a below-normal IQ. A 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibits the execution of mentally retarded people.

A jury had voted 10-2 to recommend that Couey be executed. Florida law puts the final sentencing decision in the hands of a judge, who must give great weight to a jury recommendation.

Circuit Judge Ric Howard in Citrus County ruled that the most credible intelligence exam rated Couey's IQ at 78, slightly above the 70 level generally considered retarded, the St. Petersburg Times reported.

Couey was convicted of entering the home of Jessica Lunsford in February 2005, taking the girl and killing her. Her body was later found in a grave in Couey's yard, about 150 yards from her own home. He was arrested in Georgia.

"A person who is mentally retarded simply could not have planned such a sophisticated crime, and escape," Howard wrote.

A telephone message could not be left for Couey's public defender, Daniel Lewan, by The Associated Press after hours Tuesday.

Sentencing has been scheduled for Friday.


I wonder if this monster is capable of realizing his death will be so much more humane than what he did to that 8 year old beauty. Being buried alive has to be one of the worst ways to die.

I think of some cases I've followed over the years and how if the child killer had been put to death (or given life without parole) for their first offense, so many children would have lived to grow up. Jessica Lunsford. Junny Rios-Martinez. BTW, Junny's killer, Mark Dean Schwab, will be getting the needle in November thanks to Gov. Crist signing the death warrent last month. Junny would be 27 years old if that murdering bastard had been forced to serve his full sentence for raping a child. Instead he got out after THREE years.

That monster in Idaho, Joseph Duncan, should never have been released from prison after being convicted of the sadistic rape and torture of a young boy. They still don't know how many children he may have murdered over the years.

Sure, there are exceptions to the rule. The bastard who kidnapped, raped and murdered Danielle Van Damm didn't have a criminal record and there has not been any evidence he ever touched a child before he took Danielle. But that case is rare, most of these monsters have a long history of huring children.

I say life without parole for child rapists. Death for child killers.

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[> ITA! -- zyx, 20:11:32 08/08/07 Wed [1]


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[> [> Figures. -- lmn, 09:22:47 08/10/07 Fri [1]


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[> I don't understand parole -- niki, 10:57:43 08/13/07 Mon [1]

for cases like this. These people are sick beyond repair and ever letting them out should not be an option.


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