Child Killer Asks to be Put to Death
It is not often that a person who has been found guilty of a terrible crime welcomes the death penalty, but Marco Allen Chapman, 36, is such a person nonetheless.
He was found guilty of killing two young girls – 6-year-old Cody Sharon and 7-year-old Chelbi Sharon in the northern Kentucky town of Warsaw in August 2002 – pleaded guilty, and even asked the court to put him to death, and if the court would agree to the death penalty, please make it quick.
“I say we should go ahead and get it over with and done,” Chapman told a judge in a separate hearing in Lexington on Thursday.
“I should be able to do what I want to do and go ahead and have the execution put forth.”
Although Chapman tried to fire his defense lawyers, the latter refuse to give up on their (former) client. They continue to defend him, arguing that his behavior shows that he is incompetent. Furthermore, they say, his request for a speedy execution” is nothing more than “suicide by court.”
During his trial, Chapman asked for the death penalty. The trial judge saw no legal reason not to grant the request. Next, Chapman asked to be put to death ASAP, for he did not want to spend a minute longer on this earth than necessary.
Now, what’s most amazing to me is that every single reason supporters of the death penalty give not to abolish it is not valid in this case. Revenge? How’s that. The man hates to be alive, he’s looking forward to being killed. Capital punishment as warning to others who may consider committing a similar crime? He may not even have gotten the death penalty if he had not requested and welcomed it.
If the court wants to punish Chapman, it should turn his death penalty into life imprisonment. That would be a true punishment for Chapman.
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Why would you give this man exactly what he wants?? Let him rot in prison for the rest of his life! I will gladly pay the taxes to make sure that it happens!
Chapman’s lawyers are so noble and self-righteous. The way they are making up fallacious legal non-arguments to justify their anti-death penalty agenda is nauseating.
If we want to punish Chapman, put together a DVD of the little girls’ happy lives before he murdered them and pipe it into his cell 24*7 until he goes mad with self-loathing. But American society is not really trying to punish murderers. We simply want cancers like Chapman removed from our midst.
Regardless of Chapman’s stated feelings – which may or may not be genuine – the crime justifies and calls for the sentence and it should be carried out as the system dictates.
If you consider revenge to be the one and only reason – sure, but it’s not. And if the law allows for him to be tried as a capital offense – do it and let him go through the process.
No Interested, the other arguments don’t work either. For instance: some defend the death penalty saying it will scare off others who may commit horrific crimes. Right, but this man asked to be put to death, and is speeding up the process. If he would not have done so, it is quite possible that he would not have received capital punishment.
that argument is rather moot attempt Michael. If it scares off other’s or not – the man’s still put to death, if he enjoys getting killed is something different entirely.