Drunk Driver sentenced to 51 years for killing pitcher

[Divinity]

A convicted drunken driver was sentenced Wednesday to 51 years to life in prison for a crash that killed Los Angeles Angel pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others, the Orange County, California, district attorney said.

Andrew Thomas Gallo, 23, of San Gabriel, California, received the maximum sentence after a jury found him guilty in September of three felony counts of murder, felony drunken driving and two other felonies, according to District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and court spokeswoman Carole Levitzky.

 

 

Justice was served I'd say

[Youk Of The Nation]

Good. I hope he dies in prison.

[Spudboy]

How was justice served?

 

Three people are dead.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

The f***er should have gotten lifetime. I HATE drunk drivers witha passion.

[Spudboy]

Why not just give him a needle and be done with it?

 

He killed three people. Not by accident, either.

[bsox0407]

Justice was served I'd say

 

In this case justice was served. He is gonna be 74 when he could potentially get out. He got three counts of 15 to life and 6 years on other crimes.

[Northern Star]

He is a scumbug POS.

[a700hitter]

A horrible tragedy. He snuffed out three lives and ruined his own. As bad a problem as drunk driving is, I think accidents due to cell phones and texting might actually surpass in number the drunk driving accidents. My wife have been in three accidents where our vehicle was totalled. One was a drunk stoned driver and the other two involved cell phone usage. Two of those collisions were very violent and we are lucky to have escaped relatively uninjured. I hate drunk drivers, but we should all equally hate these *******s that text and talk on the phone while driving.

[bsox0407]

A horrible tragedy. He snuffed out three lives and ruined his own. As bad a problem as drunk driving is' date=' I think accidents due to cell phones and texting might actually surpass in number the drunk driving accidents. My wife have been in three accidents where our vehicle was totalled. One was a drunk stoned driver and the other two involved cell phone usage. Two of those collisions were very violent and we are lucky to have escaped relatively uninjured. I hate drunk drivers, but we should all equally hate these *******s that text and talk on the phone while driving.[/quote']

 

Don't Worry Texting and Talking on the Cell Phone is one of my biggest Pet Peeve. People Where I am Cop are going to hate me as cop.

[Spudboy]

In this case justice was served. He is gonna be 74 when he could potentially get out. He got three counts of 15 to life and 6 years on other crimes.

 

So who should foot the bill to incarcerate this guy for 51 years?

 

And why?

[bsox0407]

So who should foot the bill to incarcerate this guy for 51 years?

 

And why?

 

The State, who else its not like the family can afford it. I do not agree that he should get the Death Penalty. He did kill three people but he did not do it out of Malice and did not Premeditate. It was an accident where he broke a crime and should get punished. Even if it was the second DUI he has had he does not Deserve to Die. I am All for Death Penalty but not in this case. Rape of a minor. 1st Degree Homicide. s*** like that should face the Death Penalty not a Motor Vehicle Accident Death no matter if he was Under the Influence.

 

It will cause the State to pay about 2.4 million dollars over the 51 years. 47,102 dollars per year as of this year in California. Assuming that the costs stays the same.

 

The Avg time of person on Death Row to be there before their Day is 28 years.

Plus it costs more to house a person who is on Death Row since the Heightened security. it Costs about 90,000 a year to keep them on Death Row in California. 2.5 Million to house the guy for the avg 28 years on Death row. That is just to keep him in a cell. What about killing the guy, bringing in the Doctor and other expenses.

 

The Financial Costs of the Death Penalty

 

Death penalty cases are much more expensive than other criminal cases and cost more than imprisonment for life with no possibility of parole. In California, capital trials are six times more costly than other murder trials.(1) A study in Kansas indicated that a capital trial costs $116,700 more than an ordinary murder trial.(2) Complex pre-trial motions, lengthy jury selections, and expenses for expert witnesses are all likely to add to the costs in death penalty cases. The irreversibility of the death sentence requires courts to follow heightened due process in the preparation and course of the trial. The separate sentencing phase of the trial can take even longer than the guilt or innocence phase of the trial. And defendants are much more likely to insist on a trial when they are facing a possible death sentence. After conviction, there are constitutionally mandated appeals which involve both prosecution and defense costs.

 

Most of these costs occur in every case for which capital punishment is sought, regardless of the outcome. Thus, the true cost of the death penalty includes all the added expenses of the "unsuccessful" trials in which the death penalty is sought but not achieved. Moreover, if a defendant is convicted but not given the death sentence, the state will still incur the costs of life imprisonment, in addition to the increased trial expenses.

 

For the states which employ the death penalty, this luxury comes at a high price. In Texas, a death penalty case costs taxpayers an average of $2.3 million, about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years.(3) In Florida, each execution is costing the state $3.2 million.(4) In financially strapped California, one report estimated that the state could save $90 million each year by abolishing capital punishment.(5) The New York Department of Correctional Services estimated that implementing the death penalty would cost the state about $118 million annually.(6)

[redsoxrules]

A shotgun to the head would be very cost efficient

[bsox0407]

My County Used to do the Death Penalty very fast and efficiently. They would convict and walk directly outside to the "Hanging Tree" and hang him.

[EXman369]

the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment. life is the most precious thing we have, and to take it away from someone is extreme. we are one of the few countries left in the world that still use it, let alone the increasing number of US states that are writing it off of their law books. the death penalty is so ancient and barbaric - can't a nation like ours find a better way to punish and even further -- remediate our criminals? i think so. it's really small minded.

now i know what many will say - yes life is precious and it is a cruel and unusual punishment but isnt that exactly what this man took away from those he killed?! along with ruining the lives of their surviving family members?! YES. i agree with this 100%. but i still believe in my core upbringing that two wrongs do not make a right. i would much rather see this man rot in jail for the rest of his life and have to contemplate every single day why he was locked in that cell, and what he did wrong. death would be just a sweet release from a life of nothingness. plus, if you think that this man deserves exactly the punsihment he gave to them, then youll have to recreate the exact time and place, and have some other drunk driver smash into him etc. etc.

Sentencing people to give their lives because they took someone else’s does not bring the other person back and does not take away from the pain the victims loved ones are feeling, it just creates more pain for the criminal and his loved ones.

 

 

....need i continue?

 

since this happened in CA, this discussion is pretty much written off because CA doesnt allow for the death penalty anyways! so maximum sentence is the most extreme punsihment legally recognized in CA anyways.

[italstallianion]

A shotgun to the head would be very cost efficient

 

 

 

Even better, just give the victims familes a few of those maple bats that should be taken out of baseball anyway because they are too dangerous, and let them have at the rat bastard. It serves cold hard justice, it prevents the bastard from drunk driving again, it's cheaper than keeping him alive or going through appeals, and it lets the victims families be a part of the process. Maybe throw in some brass knuckles and piano wire too.

 

Besides, a shotgun to the head is too quick and the lethal injection is too painless.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Why do you feel such remorse for this jackass? He was irresposible and ended up killing innocent people. s*** like this infuriates me.

 

Edit:For Exman not Ital.

[bsox0407]

the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment. life is the most precious thing we have, and to take it away from someone is extreme. we are one of the few countries left in the world that still use it, let alone the increasing number of US states that are writing it off of their law books. the death penalty is so ancient and barbaric - can't a nation like ours find a better way to punish and even further -- remediate our criminals? i think so. it's really small minded.

now i know what many will say - yes life is precious and it is a cruel and unusual punishment but isnt that exactly what this man took away from those he killed?! along with ruining the lives of their surviving family members?! YES. i agree with this 100%. but i still believe in my core upbringing that two wrongs do not make a right. i would much rather see this man rot in jail for the rest of his life and have to contemplate every single day why he was locked in that cell, and what he did wrong. death would be just a sweet release from a life of nothingness. plus, if you think that this man deserves exactly the punsihment he gave to them, then youll have to recreate the exact time and place, and have some other drunk driver smash into him etc. etc.

Sentencing people to give their lives because they took someone else’s does not bring the other person back and does not take away from the pain the victims loved ones are feeling, it just creates more pain for the criminal and his loved ones.

 

 

....need i continue?

 

since this happened in CA, this discussion is pretty much written off because CA doesnt allow for the death penalty anyways! so maximum sentence is the most extreme punsihment legally recognized in CA anyways.

 

Are you serious about this. California has the death penalty and use it. San Quentin just installed a new facility for executions.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_California#2010_execution_proceedings

 

Please there are over 600 people on death row in CA today.

[EXman369]

in no way did i indicate feeling remorse. you obviously did not read my post carefully enough. i am offended that you interpreted it this way. just because i am against the death penalty does not mean i feel remorse for the criminal. HAHAH it makes me laugh at how stupid of an assumption that is.

 

as i said in my post, i said something along the lines of "i know you will say the victims lives are sacred too, i agree 100%". trust me, i think this person who did this is an insufferable *******.

 

however, my argument is AGAINST the death penalty. i don't think it is just or moral.

i think a much better punishment than the death penalty is exactly what he got, to rot in hell for the rest of his life and have to think about what he did EVERYDAY for the rest of his life. that will be much more emotionally scarring than just having instant death.

just wanting to kill him off because he killed someone is just so barbaric and underdeveloped.

 

an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

[EXman369]

Are you serious about this. California has the death penalty and use it. San Quentin just installed a new facility for executions.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_California#2010_execution_proceedings

 

Please there are over 600 people on death row in CA today.

 

 

 

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i apologize for getting my facts wrong. i should have looked more carefully at the source i was viewing when i thought of that point. not that wikipedia is anymore credible. haha.

 

 

from answers.com

 

Yes, California has a death penalty statute and has executed thirteen inmates since the US Supreme Court decided capital punishment was (again) constitutional in 1976. Their last scheduled execution was stayed by a federal court in 2006, however, due to concerns that their current lethal injection procedures may cause conscious asphyxiation.

 

As a result of their de facto moratorium, California currently has 678 inmates on death row. Although the state offers the option of death in the gas chamber, no one has chosen this method.

 

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_California_have_the_death_penalty#ixzz18xTKXEUq

[EXman369]

http://deadlinethemovie.com/state/CA/index.php

[italstallianion]

To be honest, I'm probably further to the left (socially and economically) than any of you guys, but for habitual pieces of s*** like drunk drivers, I'd have no problem using the death penalty on those f******. However, if I'm going to use the death penalty on a piece of s*** like that, I'm not going to be a p**** and use lethal injection. Hell, we should take a lesson from our ancestors and hang the bastard, or even put him in a gas chamber, or one of my personal favourites, we should crucify the bastard. Talk about retro. That'll send the message to other drunk drivers.

 

 

On a jovial note, we could just have him listen to a country music playlist. That will do the trick.

[bsox0407]

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i apologize for getting my facts wrong. i should have looked more carefully at the source i was viewing when i thought of that point. not that wikipedia is anymore credible. haha.

 

 

along these lines though...when is that last time CA actually adiministered the death penalty? not often i can imagine. how long have those people been sitting on death row?

 

The Last i could find was in 2006 but California likes to do it on the DL. They had one scheduled for Sept 29, 2010. However the state was required to change the the steps they have to go through. They had to reschedule for next year since the Solution used to do the Execution is made by one company and the company is slow with keeping up.

 

Plus some parts of Wikipedia is pretty good. You need to watch for the highly popular ones. When you look at people like George Washington you are getting almost all Facts. I use Wiki as a reference and then find it in a book. So a lot of the things on Wiki is true.

[bsox0407]

To be honest, I'm probably further to the left (socially and economically) than any of you guys, but for habitual pieces of s*** like drunk drivers, I'd have no problem using the death penalty on those f******. However, if I'm going to use the death penalty on a piece of s*** like that, I'm not going to be a p**** and use lethal injection. Hell, we should take a lesson from our ancestors and hang the bastard, or even put him in a gas chamber, or one of my personal favourites, we should crucify the bastard. Talk about retro. That'll send the message to other drunk drivers.

 

 

On a jovial note, we could just have him listen to a country music playlist. That will do the trick.

 

Come on No Love for "Sparky" I am highly disappointed in you. I usually am for the death Penalty just in this case i think he made a mistake that he has to live with forever. You can't put one guy to death then give one guy 30 days in jail for the same crime.

[EXman369]

i use wiki too, almost everyday for different things. but it definitely is recognized as not being so legit.

 

it is interesting that there are 650+ ppl on death row, and yet it hasnt been administered any time recently...makes you wonder just how for the DP CA is since when it comes to actual execution (pun not intended) there have only been like 13 people executed in the past 40 years. so more people are put on death row and probably end up dying on death row before they actually face lethal injection.

[bsox0407]

i use wiki too, almost everyday for different things. but it definitely is recognized as not being so legit.

 

it is interesting that there are 650+ ppl on death row, and yet it hasnt been administered any time recently...makes you wonder just how for the DP CA is since when it comes to actual execution (pun not intended) there have only been like 13 people executed in the past 40 years. so more people are put on death row and probably end up dying on death row before they actually face lethal injection.

 

The Avg. Time on Death row is 28 years. Each Person is allowed one Appeal. And we all know how long it takes for the appeal to actually work. Then actually getting through that and then Killing them. it does happen a lot when people die on death row.

[yeszir]

The Avg. Time on Death row is 28 years. Each Person is allowed one Appeal. And we all know how long it takes for the appeal to actually work. Then actually getting through that and then Killing them. it does happen a lot when people die on death row.

 

And this is why death row is a waste of money and resources. It costs the state significantly more to execute a person and go through the appeals process then to imprison them for life.

 

In any case, I think drunk driving should carry a mandatory prison sentence of at LEAST 5 years. If someone dies, mandatory life sentence.

[bsox0407]

And this is why death row is a waste of money and resources. It costs the state significantly more to execute a person and go through the appeals process then to imprison them for life.

 

In any case, I think drunk driving should carry a mandatory prison sentence of at LEAST 5 years. If someone dies, mandatory life sentence.

 

Did you see my previous post about the cost of Execution vs. Time in prison. It does cost a lot of money put the people there deserve it for the most part. I feel that Since the cost i would like to see only serial Killers deserve the Death Penalty. I am for the Death Penalty.

[Dipre]

The problem with the lengthy trials that force the courts to last years and years to finally decide to take a prisoner to death row is found in the 5th amendment of the constitution:

 

"No one shall be deprived of their life, liberty or property without due process"

 

The problem with this is that it's an interpretative clause, and the courts deem the loss of life by someone to require the maximum amount of due process due to the likelihood of them making a mistake, and the mistake not being fixable (since the person has been infected with an incurable disease called "dead"), and there basically two things to look at when going through a process, which are efficiency and fairness, for the process to not be so lengthy, you have to sacrifice fairness (in the law's case, fairness is deemed the maximum reduction of arbitrariness), and for the process to be fair, you need to lengthen it as to make sure the process is as close to perfect as possible and this takes a lot of time and resources.

 

In conclusion, the courts want to cover their ass from the public backlash that would stem from committing mistakes with the prisoner sentenced to death row, because you can let a guy out from jail, but once they're dead, you're f***ed, and you're going to receive the wrath of the public opinion.

[yeszir]

Given the cost to society and the possibility of executing an innocent (138 death row exonerations and counting) I think it's an absolutely horrible policy.

 

But I don't want to turn this into a death row and/or a political discussion.

[bsox0407]

Given the cost to society and the possibility of executing an innocent (138 death row exonerations and counting) I think it's an absolutely horrible policy.

 

But I don't want to turn this into a death row and/or a political discussion.

 

One last thought on it. I believe that there needs to be irrefutable DNA evidence against the person.