Execute Casey? Not a chance — but now she might cut a deal Mike Thomas | COMMENTARY April 19, 2009 Orlando Sentinel

DEAR MR. THOMAS:
While I respect your work, I take issue with your conclusions.

Your historical reference is way off for today’s visceral hatred we all have for ALL the children’s bodies piling up or just disappearing.

You cite the Richard Adams ’98 murder of 6-yr old Kayla Adams, and while heinous indeed, her father CONFESSED & THEN led cops to her body 5 DAYS later, so the state (& taxpayers) didn’t waste MILLIONS on bogus searches and fairytale alibis. Kayla was decently buried shortly after ward so all could mourn. Nobody has images of HER desiccated bones and duct tape-wrapped skull rotting away or being chomped on by all the vermin for months.

The Adams murder happened in 1998 & in 11-YRS since, millions of missing/murdered kids have SICKENED our nation to DEATH.

We are no longer WILLING to forgive or forget these heinous crimes. Most everyone’s ready, willing/able to put these sickos to DEATH.

Who doesn’t want FINAL CLOSURE for such gut-wrenching cases? SENDING a MESSAGE that We the People won’t TOLERATE our nation’s legacy, its children being snatched, molested, tortured, murdered/discarded as so much TRASH …at any psychopath’s WHIM!

In 2000 Richard Adams was convicted of his daughter’s murder and SENTENCED TO: Life in Prison WITHOUT any chance of Parole PLUS 28-YRS for aggravated child abuse.
Were I Casey Anthony, that sentence would give ME pause.

The toll on law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, taxpayers’ prolonged [and agonizingly so] 6-MONTHS of Searching/investigating countless bogus “sightings” –all that ON TOP OF all the lies and fabricated stories that are still SPINNING today 9-months LATER. (And wait for it: the Anthony Family’s going on OPRAH to spin TO their biggest audience EVER!)

The defense team (dream team or NOT) can pull out all the stops… but there’s NOT going to be any Johnny Cochran moment, “…if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

Moreover, most of America revered OJ for his athletic accomplishments. His so-called celebrity image surely snowed others. But, in his case, women’s groups were his worst enemies -even then, not everyone in the entire world HATED OJ.

After 9-mos there are few who don’t hate Casey’s lies/state of denial exacerbated by her volatile family.

Casey CAN certainly get a fair trial because the state WILL easily FIND twelve people who would CONSIDER sentencing the Death Penalty. Who are also capable of entering the jury box with a CLEAN SLATE mind. Like any job, people will DO THEIR JOB: judge impartially the preponderance of evidence knowing the State must prove guilt BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. That is the jury’s burden and absolute duty.

Baez doesn’t have to prove she’s innocent (thank God and his many mercies for THAT).

I have researched and compiled my own opinion as to the preponderance of evidence accumulated/reported (blessed Sunshine laws) that I have released in local media blogs.

What I discovered was the overwhelming “connectedness” of it all.

ALL the evidence and timeline (given an understanding of that family’s dynamic) and its dysfunction can lead to only one reasonable conclusion: they are all *A-F lying (badly) and so is Casey, sadly. They are all convicting themselves by their own actions and volatile demeanors.

If Casey were my own child, I would find the best legal mind in the country to package a defense with mitigating circumstances, mental impairment, etc AND MAKE A DEAL.
Karen C Lee