Death penalty: 'Final justice' or just more killing?
Donald Beaty
Donald Beaty is scheduled to die May 25 in the 1984 murder of Christy Ann Fornoff.
Donald Beaty
Donald E. Beaty - On the evening of May 9, 1984, Christy Ann Fornoff, a 13-year-old news carrier, was collecting from her customers at the Rockpoint Apartments in Tempe. Beaty, who was the apartment custodian, abducted Christy and sexually assaulted and suffocated her in his apartment. Beaty kept the body in his apartment until the morning of May 11, 1984, when he placed it behind the apartment complex's trash dumpster.
Donald Beaty
Donald Beaty
Donald Beaty
Donald Beaty
Christy Ann Fornoff
Christy Ann Fornoff's murder in 1984 in Tempe changed life in the East Valley.
Christy Ann Fornoff
Fornoff murder site
The apartment complex where the murder of Christy Ann Fornoff took place in 1984, then named Rock Point, is now called Quail Canyon. [Tim Hacker, Tribune]
Terry Rubey
Terry Rubey, of Gilbert, is shown, Tuesday, May 24, 2011 in Tempe in front of Connolly Middel School, where back in 1984 he attended school with Christy Ann Fornoff. [Tim Hacker, Tribune]
Terry Rubey
Terry Rubey, of Gilbert, is shown, Tuesday, May 24, 2011 in Tempe in front of Connolly Middel School, where back in 1984 he attended school with Christy Ann Fornoff. [Tim Hacker, Tribune]
Kristina Reese
Kristina Batchelder Reese stands inside what once was Roller World at 1625 E. Weber Driver in Tempe where she was supposed to meet her friend, Christy Ann Fornoff the weekend of May 11, 1984 when Fornoff was killed while collecting subscription payments on her newspaper route at the Rock Point Apartments. Reese and Fornoff were classmates at McKemy Junior High before Fornoff’s family moved to another part of Tempe and Christy began attending Connolly Middle School. The former roller rink building now houses Evolution Motorsports, a European Exotic car shop and University Mechanical, an engineering company where a mural from the skating rink still exists. Photo by Mike Sakal.
Kristina Reese
Kristina Batchelder Reese stands inside what once was Roller World at 1625 E. Weber Driver in Tempe where she was supposed to meet her friend, Christy Ann Fornoff the weekend of May 11, 1984 when Fornoff was killed while collecting subscription payments on her newspaper route at the Rock Point Apartments. Reese and Fornoff were classmates at McKemy Junior High before Fornoff’s family moved to another part of Tempe and Christy began attending Connolly Middle School. The former roller rink building now houses Evolution Motorsports, a European Exotic car shop and University Mechanical, an engineering company where a mural from the skating rink still exists. Photo by Mike Sakal.
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mikea12012 posted at 3:57 pm on Wed, Feb 15, 2012.
It is justice. you take a savage young man , convict him of murder, imprison him for 20 or 30 years and then break him and destroy him mentally turning him into an obedient sheep who finally understands the greatness of a persons desire to live and then you kill him just as he begs not to be executed. That's why people aren't executed right away, let them suffer and break their spirit first,even if it takes 30 years, in the end they die.
NothingButTheTruth posted at 2:32 pm on Wed, May 25, 2011.
The more horrible you make the execution, the longer it will take for the state to finally execute the condemned person. 30 years waiting for justice is no justice at all. This man has been allowed to live all that time, however unpleasant it may have been, and that is wrong. When a person is so obviously guilty as this guy is, the state should not have to wait this long. Making his execution a slow painful affair just makes the squeamish public more interested in making sure the condemned really deserves the death penalty. I would like to see prisons install an express lane for those who are most certainly guilty and a quick painless death that allows for organ harvest. Right now the three drug cocktail causes so much damage to vital organs as to render them unusable. I'm sure the poor girls family and friends would rather there had been a faster resolution to this execution than for the prisoner to be tortured to death. Incidentally, I'm told spending your entire life in a high level lockup prison until you die is the most torturous death possible. Anything else is just to quick as it doesn't give ample time for the condemned to really think about what they did. Well, maybe not everyone would suffer from a life sentence, but I know I would want a faster way out.
Slabside posted at 6:39 pm on Tue, May 24, 2011.
Public hangings or perhaps the guillotine. Better yet...BOTH!
Leon Ceniceros posted at 3:45 pm on Tue, May 24, 2011.
STOP ALL DEATH ROW EXECUTIONS BY LETHAL INJECTION ! ! !
Yes, this is not something that we, as Americans should be or should have ever condoned. The same sentiment goes for ....execution by hanging, firing squad or the gas chamber.
It's time to bring back the good old, reliable ........E.L.E.C.T.R.I.C....CHAIR ............that's why.
These MURDERERS.........deserve to suffer horribly...just like their victims did.
Ask your City Council candidates, your Mayoral candidates, your elected candidates for Town, City, County, State and National Office....."Do you support the Electric Chair as the only form of Death Row Execution" ???........if he or she answers .."NO"....then...go to another and another and another Candidate until you find one that.................DOES ! ! !