Sunday, October 4, 2009

If any crime deserves the death penalty, it's this one

So, of course, it's plea bargained to life with a chance for parole!

"POMEROY — Charles Williams admitted to the robbery and murder of Doris Jackson, a longtime family friend, to a three-judge panel Wednesday.

Jackson was reported missing from her Tuppers Plains home in late February. Three days later, her body was found in her dining room beneath a pile of her personal belongings. Her car, stolen along with firearms, jewelry, cash and other items, was recovered at an apartment complex on Richland Avenue in Athens.

Jackson was strangled and bludgeoned to death. When investigators discovered her body, her throat had been cut and her hands bound with a telephone cord. Williams admitted yesterday that he, alone, was responsible for Jackson’s death, but said Garnes had helped plan the robbery which went awry on Feb. 23, and that two others had transported him to Jackson’s home and helped dispose of evidence of the robbery and murder.

Only Williams and Garnes have been charged in the case."

WHY? I hope that names were supplied to law enforcement on these two before any plea bargain was agreed to.

Williams deserves the death penalty, Garnes needs life without parole and the unnamed other two need life sentences.

1 comment:

  1. Loydho:

    What do you think about a "three judge panel?" Why not a jury of peers?

    Over the last 50 years the lawyers and lawmakers have begun to remove the citizen from the courtroom, replacing them with judge panels. I would be willing to bet a citizen jury from Meigs County would make sure these guys got what they deserved.

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