Convicted Killer Gets Death Penalty in Va.

SelectPlusConvicted Killer Gets Death Penalty in Va.Convicted Killer Gets Death Penalty in Va.The Associated PressA jail escapee who set off a manhunt near Virginia Tech's campus by killing a hospital guard and later, a sheriff's deputy, was sentenced to death Monday despite his attorney's pleas for leniency. (June 24)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] [Notes:morva in courtroom]Convicted killer William Morva has been sentenced to death. [Notes:file of va tech lockdown] A Virginia judge imposed the jury's recommended sentence for the jail escapee who killed a hospital guard and a sheriff's deputy setting off a lockdown at Virginia Tech University months before the deadly campus shooting that happened there. [Notes:courtroom various]At Morva's sentencing on Monday, Defense attorney Thomas Blaylock pleaded for mercy, then Morva made a statement.SOT: Morva: My attorneys, they just did a good job of trying to ask you for mercy, but I don't ask for that. Because to be quite honest, I think there are very few people in this whole courtroom who even know what that word means." [Notes:outburst] That prompted an angry outburst from the wife of one of his victims who shouted that Morva showed no mercy when killing her husband.SOT: Morva: "I can't fight. There's nothing more I can do. But there are others like me, and I hope you know that. And soon they're going to get together. They're going to sweep over your whole civilization, and they're to going to wipe these smiles off your faces forever. That's all." [Notes:various from Va Tech incident Aug 2006]Morva overpowered a sheriff's deputy at a hospital where he had been taken for treatment in August 2006, and used the deputy's pistol to shoot a security guard. The a day later he shot a sheriff's deputy near the Virginia Tech campus. [Notes:Morva being escorted from courtroom] Grubbs set the execution date for October 21st, but Morva has an automatic appeal. ___ ___, The Associated Press

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[AlmostaFlipinSkater]

We kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong.

[mindlesspup]

That is one crazy fucker. A nice surprise for him would be to take him outside right away, tie him to a pole and shoot his brains out on the spot.

[OU812ICRUNVS]

WIPE THE SMILE OFF THAT ASSHOLE KILLERS FACE..........FRY THIS S.O..B.!!!!!

[maconsumner]

@AlmostaFlipinSkater No we kill people who kill to punish them for capitol crimes. Get away from the ridiculously stupid fallacy of corrections and rehabilitation of these ASSHOLES, and you will be able to get away from the ridiculous thought process your comment indicates.

[maconsumner]

@mindlesspup Bullets cost money and can’t be reused. Get a rope and use that same tree to hang him from. When you are done save the rope for the next scum bag that we need it for.

[djlovesyou]

Seems like he's perhaps schizophrenic. Not that it makes any difference in the US.

[hardman476]

can you get tickets to watch an excaution???

[1337wafflezz]

Like this sick fuck knows what "Mercy" means. He killed innocent people in cold blood and now he wants them to give mercy to a convicted murderer? BS

[eissa29]

Is that Jesus?????, just kidding, lol

[Flam3o]

@sk8tafrnk - He was clearly pointing out the irony of it all, not necessarily condoning or condemning it.

[armandeezyy21]

Someone in prison needs to fuck this guy to death.

[sk8tafrnk]

@AlmostaFlipinSkater That's not really the effect it ends up having though. Countries with capital punishment have higher murder rates.

Morons like you are the bane of everyone's existence because you'd rather have higher crime rates and fuck Bill O'Reilly in the ass than take the energy to improve society.