Ok, I'll mention the Peterson case!
I am so glad that freakin trial is over (for now)... can we stop wasting media real estate with coverage of Scott Peterson's murder trial?
posted by flika @ 1:44 PM
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Am I the only one that thinks that the Scott Peterson case was newsworthy? Ok. So the verdict was a foregone conclusion (unless you believed, as perhaps did Peterson, that reverse-reverse-reverse-reverse psychology might actually work in court). The real interest piece relates to his punishment, and to the closing remarks of the prosecution.
Dave Harris, the prosecutor in the case said "He is not a person who deserves your sympathy." He also said "The person that's responsible is right there, right there, that's the one that's responsible," he said. "Leaving his wife's body to rot on the bottom of the ocean. Leaving his son to be found as trash in the debris. .... That is not something that should be rewarded by sparing his life."
However you look at these words, they are important for us all to reflect upon. Can sympathy be earned? Is the fact of one's existence in the world really a matter of public debate? And how does that debate get resolved? However true the prosecutor's words might have been, they were certainly not without abundant theatricality. Was it, then, an appeal to reason or an appeal to emotion that ended with the death sentence? What does our Constitution say about the right to life? Do we take our Constitution seriously?
It is racism, pure and simple. The leading cause of death for preganant women is murder by their husband's hand. It's an embarrassment that they focused so much on this trial when it happens all the time. Why focus on this one? Upper middle-class white folk, that's why. The media should be taken to task and perhaps even charged or forced license supsensions.
http://www.now.org/issues/violence/043003pregnant.html
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