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Post by moonlight on Apr 20, 2010 12:08:54 GMT -6
Death row inmate, Gaile K. Owens from Tenn. is scheduled for execution on September 28th. According to court records she claims she was a battered woman and therefore should have her death sentence being commuted. What is your opinion about it? I myself tend to commute her death sentence to life without parole. I believe she was abused by her husband and therefore should have her life being spared. www.tennessean.com/article/20100420/NEWS03/4200344/1017/NEWS01
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Apr 20, 2010 12:16:42 GMT -6
We have already done this before Advocates Focus On Death Row InmateNASHVILLE, Tenn. - Twenty-two years ago, Gaile Owens was convicted by a Shelby County jury and sentenced to die for paying a man $17,000 to beat to death her allegedly abusive husband. Now, advocates against domestic violence are trying to save her life. "I think her life sentence should be commuted to time served and she should be set free," said Nashville attorney George Barrett. Barrett recently presented Governor Phil Bredesen with a written, formal request to commute Owens's death sentence. prodp.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=29757&page=1#549619
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 20, 2010 12:32:08 GMT -6
My answer is NO! This bad bytch needs the juice badly!
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Post by mst3k4evur on Apr 20, 2010 15:18:03 GMT -6
Quick question, do we have any evidence beyond her own claims 24 years after the murder that he was so abusive that it would mitigate her responsibility?
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Post by redd on Apr 20, 2010 16:22:47 GMT -6
If she had killed him herself, while being beaten/abused or soon after being beaten/abused, maybe even while he was asleep, it might be an LWOP case but seeing as how she PAID to have him killed then it is murder, plain and simple.
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Apr 20, 2010 18:10:33 GMT -6
Things aren't looking so good for her from this group.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2010 1:04:21 GMT -6
If she had killed him herself, while being beaten/abused or soon after being beaten/abused, maybe even while he was asleep, it might be an LWOP case but seeing as how she PAID to have him killed then it is murder, plain and simple. Exactly my sentiments,she had plenty of time to leave,or even contact the police,she should of blew him away while her life was in danger,you cant go around paying people to kill someone.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2010 3:25:12 GMT -6
this bytch should be next.
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Post by moonlight on Apr 24, 2010 11:58:06 GMT -6
this bytch should be next. Do you mean Brittany Holberg from Texas?
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Post by Stormyweather on Apr 24, 2010 12:21:04 GMT -6
Death row inmate, Gaile K. Owens from Tenn. is scheduled for execution on September 28th. According to court records she claims she was a battered woman and therefore should have her death sentence being commuted. What is your opinion about it? I myself tend to commute her death sentence to life without parole. I believe she was abused by her husband and therefore should have her life being spared. www.tennessean.com/article/20100420/NEWS03/4200344/1017/NEWS01She claims it but is there any proof?
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Post by forgesfire on Apr 24, 2010 16:34:21 GMT -6
this bytch should be next. Do you mean Brittany Holberg from Texas? No I think that's Christa Pike from Tennessee also.
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Post by Charlene on Apr 24, 2010 17:22:39 GMT -6
Owens asked a lot of people to kill her husband. If she had that much freedom to try to find a killer, she had enough freedom to go to a shelter.
On top of that, she admitted that her husband did NOT physically abuse her. The story has changed now, I guess, because it suits her cause. Total narcissistic sociopath, then and now.
One of the men she tried to hire wore a wire and talked to her after the murder.
James was wearing a hidden body microphone, which was being monitored by police in a nearby automobile. Gaile Owens paid James sixty dollars to keep quiet, telling him that it was all the money she had. She also stated that she had had her husband killed because of "bad marital problems." Gaile Owens was placed under arrest at the conclusion of her meeting with Mr. James. At first, Gaile Owens claimed that she only had hired people to follow her husband and "to rough him up." She did admit paying out some $4,000 to $5,000 to various men for expenses. Later she confessed to offering three men $5,000 to $10,000 to kill her husband and to talking with a man known as "little Johnny" at 2:30 p.m. on the day of the murder about killing her husband. She had promised to pay him three or four days after the murder. When asked why, Gaile Owens stated, "We've just had a bad marriage over the years, and I just felt like he had, mentally I just felt like he had been cruel to me. There was very little physical violence."
This is not a battered woman, no matter whether you think it is a good excuse for murder or not.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 24, 2010 18:22:17 GMT -6
If it were a man who hired someone to kill his wife because she was emotionally or physically abusive, we would not be having this conversation. The fact that this was a murder for hire, IMO, negates any argument that she was acting out of fear for her safety. I say stick the needle in one of her and teach her a lesson in gender equality.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2010 18:22:33 GMT -6
this bytch should be next. Do you mean Brittany Holberg from Texas? you can throw brittany holberg on her lap the bytch in the pic is christa pike from tenn..
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Post by Stormyweather on Apr 24, 2010 23:24:31 GMT -6
If I remember right didn't Betty Lou Beets claim the same thing.? The only husband that is on record of abusing her was her second husband and he did threaten her and she shot at him. She was going to be tried for attempted murder but after he did admit to threatening her the charges were changed to aggravated assult. She divorced him and then remarried him but then it only lasted a month. However, when it came to her third husband she tried to run over him with a car so it wasn't as if she was gentle. There was no proof of abuse from her fourth and fifth husbands who she murdered by shooting them. maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Beets,%20Betty%20Lou%20_spring%202007_.pdf
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Post by moonlight on Apr 25, 2010 0:33:14 GMT -6
Do you mean Brittany Holberg from Texas? you can throw brittany holberg on her lap the bytch in the pic is christa pike from tenn.. ooh thanks for the info. Well, since you didn't mention who was the bytch her pic you displayed, I tried to figure it up myself. Anyway, it reminded me the "beautiful" female condemned murderer from Texas
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Apr 25, 2010 1:45:35 GMT -6
Christa Pike according to the usual cretins Please don't forget that PTO is a support site (and murder worshippers) and as such it is important to remember that friends and family of Christa Pike may visit here for support. Thank you. tantoo01-14-2005, 11:11 PM "Some published her letters online or offered them in the internet for sale." Trivial here perhaps but I feel compelled to mention it. How awful to be a penpal with a deathrow prisoner so you can publish or sell their letters! Ebony's spice01-15-2005, 12:23 AM "until Ms. Slemmers family can finally come to peace and Christa is put to death" It saddens me that a family could find PEACE in someone's death. That is very sad for them if that is true - what a way to heal - watching someone die. I'm not even going to go into the mentality of that one..... No one is 100% purely evil. They may be mentally ill, A LOT evil, on and on, but there IS good in everyone - even if it is a very small part. It doesn't mean they're safe in society or anything like that, don't get me wrong. However......Obviously one of the posters above sees that small part - the good part. She is to be commended for looking at a sick human being and recognizing the good that is also there. As a deathrow inmate said, once you have committed such a heinous crime, no good you ever did before or will ever do again, will be recognized. You will just forevermore be a monster. How sad. If/when she is put to death, I hope the family can forgive themselves someday for the joy they got out of it. MrCoffee01-16-2005, 03:56 AM It is sad that this altercation happened between Christa Pike and Patricia Jones. Unfortunately, this is going to make it much more difficult for Christa during her appeals process. I had once anticipated a possible commutation on account of Christa's age and the fact that she is a female, but it's looking more doubtful with each incident that takes place there in prison. What can possibly be done for Christa at this point? MrCoffee DaveMoff07-19-2005, 10:32 PM No, I have never received any responses to several letters and cards I have sent to Christa Pike. If she is concerned about people selling her letters I can certainly understand--the main person who has been up to this sort of thing that I know of is a fellow named Ken Karnig who maintains a web site URL Removed please see PTO Rules and Policies. Until I, along with supporters of another prisoner managed to get the sale of such things banned, he was selling prisoners letters and similar items on eBay under the name "Supernaught". If Ms. Pike is not familiar with his name, she might want to watch out for him--he doesn't deserve the time of day. No one can condone or ignore Christa Pike's crimes. However, it is difficult not to conclude that she was suffering from serious mental difficulties (including, I believe, drug addiction) at the time and that some of these may well be going untreated, which I believe represent "extenuating circumstances". She has been removed from society and will never again represent a threat to the public. What more will be accomplished by her death? So Kermit, do give her my good wishes if you wish to and if she would like another pen pal, I'll be happy to write to her again and offer my solemn promise that her words will be kept in strictest confidence. I am a Universalist minister--if she has any interest in spiritual matters I will be happy to answer any question or offer gentle suggestions. Kermit07-20-2005, 05:36 AM Thanks for your understanding, DaveMoff. A true loser. Well, it's not unusual to get no reply from Christa. As I already stated she's not good at writing. Besides that she doesn't think she has anything interesting to tell. Anyway, she really appreciates all cards and letters she receives. Yours sincerly, Loserville, pto
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2010 5:35:04 GMT -6
What a bunch of dropkicks,why waste your time writing to that ragedy azze loser,why would you want to buy her letters anyway .got me stumped.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2010 8:05:58 GMT -6
A couple of comments...
Re: No one is 100% evil or 100% good.
At face value I would agree with this sentiment. However I would assume you are not convicted of murder merely because you are a bad person, but because you were involved in deliberately ending someone's life. It is not a character assessment.
re: Common Claims of Abuse by female murderers These sort of claims are generally fabricated or exaggerrated. by woman who are guilty of murder. Virtually all women on DR for murdering an intimate partner claims being victimised by serious abuse and this provoked them into murder.It is a way of defaming a dead victim
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 25, 2010 14:23:09 GMT -6
A couple of comments... Re: No one is 100% evil or 100% good. Indeed, all murderers ARE 100% evil. Any goodness that was ever in the heart of a murderer is filtered out through the prism of the murderer's deliberate homicidal act. To put it visually, the heart of a murderer is similar to the album cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (pictured below), except instead of going from left to right, it is perverted and goes from right to left. A rainbow of morality (containing both good and evil characteristics) enters the murderer's heart (represented by the triangle), but evil is all that exits that heart, thereby further justifying the Death Penalty. (Picture this image going from right to left as opposed to left to right and you can see what I mean. Regardless of the rainbow of goodness that might enter a murderer's heart, all that is emitted is a condensed ray of evil.)
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Post by socasack on May 13, 2010 10:19:01 GMT -6
Juice her! She could have left at any time. If she had the "balls" and money to hire someone, she could have just left.
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