Anthony Pardon Penalty Phase - Verdict
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Convicted killer Anthony Pardon is scheduled for a penalty phase in the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Rachael Anderson. Court is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. ET.
The defendant was found guilty Thursday, February 13. He attacked her in her apartment, tied her up, strangled her with a cord, and stabbed her in the back of the head, prosecutors said. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Amy Van Culin suggested at closing arguments that Pardon kept Anderson alive long enough to get her debit card pin number.
The defendant’s sister Deborah Pardon testified for the state, saying that she and her brother used the victim’s debit card after the murder. This witness took the stand in exchange for dodging a possible theft and forgery prosecution. Another man, 61-year-old Anthony Sleet, was found to have also used the debit card, but he was excluded as a suspect in Anderson’s death.
It took about six hours over two days for jurors to reach their verdict.
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Future jurors. I respect you. I believe in your service. I just ask, when you go into the room in the future you think about not only the person who is in front of you..but you think of the people who work in these prisons and their capacity to help themselves against violent inmates. This man in public testimony had 17
write ups with some very violent crimes. The officers that take care of these inmates do not have the protections they need to get through a violent attack compared to a prison that has a death row.
Take care out there everyone. I was educated on what I should teach my children as far as safety from viewing this trial..and I will continue to stick up for victims of the crime, not the past of the murderer.
I've done voluntary work in the English prison system and something I noticed early on was that prison staff have to deal with the individuals in that environment for their entire shift. Many of us work in jobs where it's possible to get a brief respite if it's a bad day. Staff working in prisons don't have that luxury.
Exactly. It also makes it nearly impossible to make prisons a place for rehabilitation. This sentence nurtures an unhealthy environment. He’s just going to make more hardened criminals.
How heartbreaking for Rachel’s family!
Are you kidding me??? What mitigating circumstance?
I hope the jury took a good look at Rachael’s broken parents on the way out 🤬
They lost a child they would be broken no matter the sentence, as any human being would be after losing their child. It's a traumatic and tragic loss and my prayers go out to them.
Someone in this jury definitely against the death penalty for sure..it’s unjust.
It would be fascinating to see which courts were more likely to recommend DP. A few months ago there was a DP case in this same court room and the jury voted against DP.
Disgraceful verdict...some of those jury members put his sob story above the torture he inflicted upon all of his victims including an infant and young child. Rachael and her parents did not get justice in my opinion. This monster gets to go back home for three square meals.
JimsPal which infant and child didhe hurt? I agree, except he hates prison, and he is now marked by the nazi type inmates too, so he may get shanked.
@@lovepet4565 here is a snippet from just one online news: "In March 1979, when he was 14, he was temporarily committed to the Ohio Youth Commission for raping an 8-year-old girl...In February 1980, when he was 15, he was convicted of raping a 9-month-old boy, the son of his foster parents. He was babysitting when his foster mother went grocery shopping. He told Columbus police he raped the baby because he was upset after a fight with a girlfriend....In November 1981, when Pardon was 16, he kidnapped, raped and attempted to drown the 39-year-old mother of a girlfriend ....he pulled a butcher knife on her, raped her and took $100 from her purse. He bound her feet and hands together and gagged her before putting her in the trunk of her car. He untied her feet and threw her in Alum Creek...when Pardon saw that she was still able to keep afloat, he waded in the creek and held her head under water... Another man discovered them after he saw the woman’s car with the trunk still ajar."
@@anniegetchergun if that's true, it will be highly unusual...I have my doubts.
JimsPal You’re right - Judicial Override was abolished in 2017. My bad and I’ve deleted the post.
@@anniegetchergun no need to have done that!! It's how we all learn! Have a great evening!
Disgraceful jury decision. Someone on that jury was not truthful when asked if they could render a death verdict. If so, that juror is no better than Pardon himself.
To Rachel's parents and all who loved her, I am so very sorry.
I agree. These juries need to be screened better. Untruthful jurors.
@Sara Allison They said they were able to render the death penalty in a death penalty case and they could not do it.
Ah your upset because your blood thirsty fantasy won't be fulfilled
Simon reeder, Yup. You nailed it!
Sara Allison, we agree....your's sure was!
My prayers go out to Rachel Anderson's parents.
Why pray to a god who watched it happen, planned for it to happen, and knew it would happen? 🤔
I can't believe he got life sentence only. Joke? Samething not right with this system
At least he'll be bound every day for the rest of his life, as she was.
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It’s a horrible judgement
I would have liked for him to get the DP but LWOP will do just fine. Either way, his life is over and he will never get another chance to hurt an innocent person ever again.
.. except for correctional officers.
@@jinkerjinx6953 I was thinking the same thing. Maybe they'll put him in gen pop and let it sort itself out. One can hope.
Jury got it wrong!!!!!There were no mitigating factors. They failed to give the parents and family the justice they deserved in the horrific murder of their daughter. This guy gets to live a life that Rachel can't. No justice.When this monster was allowed to address the court it was just one big "poor me" sob story and he never once said he was sorry for killing Rachel, no ounce of remorse and yet part of this jury still felt he deserved to live a full life. Juries should be required to take a competency test.
The jury’s decision is unjust and damaging. Pardon is poisonous to society and will prey on prisoners the rest of his life. Sentencing like this makes prisons dysfunctional.
I don’t care what he’s been thru in life !!! It’s people who’s been thru worst and they aren’t out here murdering and raping someone every chance they get !!! He’s a monster !!
I knew when that doc spoke for two days and than Tony he was going to get life without parole. I felt sorry for him for his trauma life and everything he went thru. At least he will never hurt nobody again
Well, if he used reverse psychology on them about how he hates prison to avoid the death penalty, it worked.
In South Africa its even worse. One man who murdered his wife trying to make it look like a suicide has approached the courts to get bail to sort out his finances in his business. How's that for a sickening story. My opinion is to have these killers working in mortuaries especially on murdered victims. That's a daily reminder of what they did to another person.
I definitely don’t agree with the verdict but I respect it
That has to the the toughest job
I believe his story to the jury worked on some of them
My hope is that the prison justice will take care of him. He needs to pay for Rachel and the others he has raped. I hope the jurors can sleep after learning his past...a 9 month old infant raped, a child raped, sweet dreams jury.
I don't understand why the state did not also put some of Rachael's friends and family on the stand during penalty phase or why they didn't bring their own witnesses to affirm that the abusive childhood does not as a necessity imply such terrible behaviour to follow
I commented the same yesterday
.... with this verdict will there be chance of an appeal?...I doubt it.
This was the worst trial ever. The judge was amazing but this was clear cut. He is guilty even after he denied it, the jury said guilty for everything. Then, yes I did it but it wasn’t my fault. This was a joke of a trial and from now on if the trial starts off like a circus 🤡 I’m moving on to the next. It was a waste of time for this trial to be televised.
Why so many police?
Really?! Couldnt the judge have the sentencing documents already prepared for both the situations?? This so the sentencing could have been done directly after the jury gave the verdict,
Again three weeks delay is really an unneccesary delay. This judge is really so sloooooow. This trial and penalty phase could have been done in two weeks. And he needs 3 times that much!
The three week wait for sentencing prolongs the torment the victim's family must be going through. This judge's time management has been extremely slack, wasting a lot of time and costing the US taxpayer money. The sentence is obviously going to be LWOP. Plenty of judges manage to sentence straight away.
Bet there’s a load of “good Christians”!on here desperate for blood. It’s better he lives a long life to contemplate what he did rather than getting a quick exit
@ taxpayer's expense?
Even if they Impose the Death Penalty, odds are he will still die of old age before the sentence is carried out. Does the DP bring closure to the family? Either way Rachael is not coming back and this POS will never hurt someone again.
@Justin Voluck Given the nature of his crime, I don't think he will get to spend too much time roaming free.
Just as well at his age he will probably die before they could carry out death anyway they have so many appeals......after doing some work in a men's prison even as a women I would just rather be put to death than to spend the rest of my life in one.
How long did he get ??
He will leave prison in a body bag.
Life
4 life sentences!!
Scumbag should have had 4 death sentences!!
25 years its a JOCK
You are a "JOCK".
He will get get Life WITHOUT parole. Wake up.🙄