Prosecutor to seek death penalty for Christopher Monfort

sibyl69 said on September 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM

The problem with the death penalty is its finality. Yes, the mental illness and race issues are tiresome. However, think very carefully before endorsing death, as it cannot be undone. If you accept death for someone else, then it is fair to expect someone else to seek it if one of your loved ones is accused of something heinous. Just a thought.

pete33 said on September 3, 2010 at 6:01 AM

Push this loser out of his wheel chair down a flight of stairs into a basement and lock the door forever and be done with it.

truthdector said on September 3, 2010 at 5:45 AM

They gave 30 day slap on the hand to the pack of gorillas that beat the Tuba Man to death in the stadium parking lot for grins and giggles, so they should at least kill this POS.

seattlebusinessm said on September 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM

Lets just hang him off the Columbia Tower now and save some tax dollars. GUILTY

gritz said on September 2, 2010 at 4:35 PM

KSS123- Yes, I think Ridgeway should have been dealt the death penalty, based off of the evidence they had. I really don't know if the closure a family can have twenty years after the fact, trumps adequate justice. Why even have a death penalty if the most heinous can avoid it? All life should be weighed the same, a Teacher, a Cop, Mom, Dad or drunk Native American. I also think the same should apply for all suspects. Just reading these blogs you can see the varied views of punishment. Some are based on the actual crime, some have a hint of racism, some just want justice. But when your department is not consistent with the punishment, it opens that department up to the allusion of unfairness and bias.

1beachperson said on September 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM

Normally, I would agree that it is more costly to go through all the appeals of the death penalty. But, I wonder in this case (I really don't know) if it's more costly to keep him alive, given his "special medical needs" that he brought on to himself - our prisons have to provide him handicapped access, probably change his diapers for him several times a day, etc. I don't know the answer, just speculating.

truthdector said on September 2, 2010 at 12:53 PM

snohmish22, it's a painful transformation to be made aware of the truth, but after the pain and denial you will come to accept it eventually.

snohomish22 said on September 2, 2010 at 12:37 PM

Please tell me that I am not the only one here that thinks Truthdector is a complete Idiot.

i_will_id_u said on September 2, 2010 at 11:39 AM

So even though I agree he should be put to death for his crime, on a purely cost basis it's cheaper to keep his sorry pathetic rear in prison. What a miseralbe existance it will be for him to live everyday in prison for the rest of his life having to depend on others to get him around...Let him rot, either in hell, or in prison.

skippythedog said on September 2, 2010 at 11:13 AM

We need to streamline our system where guilt is so painfully obvious. This guy should have been toast within 30 days of his crime.

kss123 said on September 2, 2010 at 11:10 AM

Gritz, so you think Ridgeway should have gotten death? I do, but his plea did give closure to many families on what happened to their loved ones since he then gave details of many of the murders. So do you think sparing his life is worth giving closure to many families? Monfort should get no less than death.

dkjamerican said on September 2, 2010 at 10:28 AM

Sounds like a home grown terrorist. I would hope they would seek the death penalty and no plea deal. And please live out the mental illness excuses or he came from a deprived background, these excuses are really becoming tiresome along with the race issues.

mirage said on September 2, 2010 at 10:19 AM

Most of you complaining about your tax dollars have it all wrong - due to automatic appeals (so we don't kill an innocent person - thank you Texas) etc, etc, it is actually MORE expensive to carry out the death penalty than to imprison him for life. Truthdector - I think you need to be evaluated - you play 6 degrees of Obama with everything... guess what? Everything is not his fault.

rippyallstars said on September 2, 2010 at 10:17 AM

Gillius, are you serious!!!! If you want to foot the bill for him to sit in prison then go for it! He should be shot in public or maybe stoned for what he did!

gritz said on September 2, 2010 at 10:15 AM

I am not saying this guy doesnt deserve the death penalty. My point is, if the King County District Attorney is willing to make a deal to the worst serial murderer in US history. Then the DA has set the bar level. You cant in good conscious, give life to one man for killing over thirty people and death to another for one. How do you think that is justice? One life is more valuable than thirty?

taxed said on September 2, 2010 at 9:49 AM

To bad he chose this path, what a waste of life. Maybe we can learn from it. Make it a quik end and move on.

gillius said on September 2, 2010 at 9:24 AM

I don't know....I think spending life in prison with no chance of parole while bound to a wheelchair would be pretty appropriate punishment as well, even a little more miserable than death. I think they should schedule his execution for like 20 years from now so he always knows he is going to die young.

truthdector said on September 2, 2010 at 9:19 AM

cyrixlord your incorrect, the reason 6 million Jews were marched to the death camps is because the National Socialist Party (NAZI) used class warfare and they listened to Stalin who said that one man with a gun can control a hundred people without one.

alex206 said on September 2, 2010 at 9:14 AM

Give him the death penalty. It's going to cost too much of our tax dollars to keep him alive. Being that he is now handicapped, it will require more officers to tend to him. He is a useless waste of space.

freemonttroll said on September 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM

A few days ago, many of you guys were condemning a cop for killing someone for no apparent reason, and today you're saying this guy should die a slow painful death for killing a cop.... I'm confused???? =/

cyrixlord said on September 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM

Careful, my friends, enthusiasm by pro-death penalty advocates for the implementation of the death penalty resulted in the execution of over 6 million jews who never even got to a trial.

cjcampbell said on September 2, 2010 at 8:39 AM

Why is it taking so long for this to go to trial?

truthdector said on September 2, 2010 at 8:38 AM

He looks like Obama and in his mind he probably thinks he's related, and this is part of his politically driven motive since Obama is buddies with cop Killer William Ayers.

mitchell99 said on September 2, 2010 at 8:31 AM

This is Washington State. Full of bleeding heart liberals, soft-on-crime judges, and juries comprised of sympathetic under-achievers. There is NO WAY this guy is going to get the death penalty, no matter how much he deserves it.

clear2copy said on September 2, 2010 at 8:03 AM

Put him in a puppy suit and throw him in the yard of the psychopath preacher

jakedog said on September 2, 2010 at 7:47 AM

Its lunatics like this that make our cops so jumpy. We blame the cops for using too much force but how many of us have jobs were we face a sneak deadly ambush any time of the day? Maybe if you're a soldier in Afghanistan but no one here in the US has that kind of danger looming over them daily.

silverton said on September 2, 2010 at 7:47 AM

He deserves the death penalty. The slime ball Satturburg however, timed this so that the public will forget about his decision yesterday not to charge officer Cocaine. Satterburg will be investigated by the Feds for obstruction of justice and will be removed from office, hopefully by force. As for Monfort, no tears for you. Sadly the police are helping to create someone 10 times more violent than him.

ekuhnau said on September 2, 2010 at 7:33 AM

Give him a 3" blade, a block of wood and put him on a street corner...SPD will do the rest.

yessir said on September 2, 2010 at 7:14 AM

I've never personally been an advocate of the death penalty... it's certainly hard not to be in a case like this... this guy is scum.

truthdector said on September 2, 2010 at 7:10 AM

Gritz who is trying to hide the true racist bigotry of this black radical whipped up in to hatred by Je$$ie Jack$on, Al $harpton, Rev Wright, Farakan, the left, Willam Ayers and all the Woe is me crowd like you that whipped up his political paradigm to go out hunt whitey, you're one of them with the reverse racism that you protect.

kameha said on September 2, 2010 at 7:01 AM

let him go on bail so he can be shot dead in the street like he deserves to be

brentallica said on September 2, 2010 at 6:51 AM

What a waste of time & money.....the trial will run tens of thousands and then the state will pay around $15K a year to keep him on death row for 20 years before they get around to giving him what he really deserves. So much easier and fun to just throw em to the good ole SPD and they'll make sure justice is carried out and this dude will die a slow, painful death. Pure scum; doesn't deserve to be breathing.

kanajune said on September 2, 2010 at 6:34 AM

If ever the death penalty needed to be applied, it would be here.

stickneyw said on September 2, 2010 at 6:29 AM

Read all of your comments. A lttle hatred is there. Boy has our country and city deteriorated but lets have Rossi. more poverty and more tax cuts. Guns for the unemployed. the great equalizer !

gritz said on September 2, 2010 at 6:18 AM

Truthdector - I can always count on you for some racial commentary. Your hidden bigotied rants fool no one.

truthdector said on September 2, 2010 at 6:01 AM

They gas dogs, and this subhuman isn't worth the price of gas, a rope will suffice.

boobiewah said on September 2, 2010 at 5:59 AM

They shoot horses, don't they?

whitlynn said on September 2, 2010 at 5:39 AM

One less person to waste our tax money. Thats fine with me. He should've thought twice before killing someone. A life for a life. He deserves it.

truthdector said on September 2, 2010 at 5:38 AM

He should have been lynched and burned when he was captured.

seattlebusinessm said on September 2, 2010 at 5:28 AM

Put the needle in nice and slow and force the most painful medication through his veins and kill him. He deserves it, that would be justice...

yogibear said on September 2, 2010 at 5:25 AM

Good. That is exactly what he deserves. He shows absolutely no remorse.

gritz said on September 2, 2010 at 5:23 AM

If you cant give the death penalty to Ridgeway, then no one deserves it.This states legal system is a joke.