Lake County pursues death penalty in sex crime prosecution
Lake County prosecutor William “Bill” Gadson announced he is seeking the death penalty in the case against Joseph Andrew Giampa.
Giampa has been charged with two counts of sexual battery upon victims under the age of 12 and three counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child.
This is the first case in the state to seek a capital conviction since the law went into effect in July of this year.
The State was meticulous in passing the law to ensure it met the thresholds for a death sentence established by previous US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) precedence. Gadson qualifies this case as meeting the four aggravating factors necessary for a capital charge.
The State has prepared the law and selected this case for a review by SCOTUS. All the t’s seem crossed and i’s seem dotted from that perspective. Left for review will be an answer to the question can the State execute for reasons other than murder.
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Ever since the time I first began this journey into activism back in 2004, there have been concerns that we could be rounded up and taken to concentration camps. After all, 2004 wasn’t too long after 9/11, and the PATRIOT Act was instituted and Hallibuton company was tied to Dick Cheney. Halliburton was, in tun, rumored to be tied to a number of facilities, including some in FloriDUH, that could be used to house undesirables in a time of crisis. In 2006, the NYT reported, “Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers.”
Now here we are in 2023. We have a head-stratchingly popular presidential candidate spewing the kind of rhetoric that makes people think it is 1930s Berlin, and who has stated he would act like a dictator if elected. Then you have the FloriDUH governor who is already acting like a would-be dictator, and he helped push this death penalty bill and spent millions to ship immigrants to from states along the border into other states.
If either of these wicked people get elected president, and they succeed in passing laws to round up the “vermin plaguing our great nation” as one of them put it, then just who are the “vermin” they plan on exterminating?
I don’t know the evidence against this man, but I believe there may be a bit more than one or two of us who are victims of someone (possibly ex-wife) weaponizing the law against us to achieve their own ends (whether it is to get custody, some type of revenge, or other reason). We already know that once the allegation is leveled, we are at a serious disadvantage. We are cut off from all contact with the ‘witness’ yet they are given exclusive contact to further manipulate the situation to their agenda. We can be, and often are, convicted on testimony alone with no corroborating evidence. So, now that we find ourselves at all these disadvantages, let’s have the me, more easily enacted, death penalty thrown at us.
Just thinking. In the current state of affairs here in Florida, the whole Markel murder for hire situation would be infinitely cheaper and with less consequences to accuse the guy of sexual battery on a minor. Think about it. Why hire a hit man when the state offers you this easy solution to take someone out.
Only need 8 of 12 to kill someone….f#$%&@* ridiculous.
If this death penalty passes then the registry needs to be taken down. A death penalty should be enough deterrent, superseding the registry.
Eventually this death penalty will become retroactive. (Sarcasm) Why not? Everything else becomes retroactive and If they can’t make a death penalty retroactive then why can they make everything else retroactive?
I Advocate for the Abolition and the End of and the Repealing of:
1.) Florida’s Sex Offender Registry.
2.) Florida’s Career Criminal/Habitual Felony Offender/Repeat Offender Registry.
3.) Florida’s Death Penalty/Capital Punishment.
4.) Florida’s Natural Life Sentencing Without Parole of Violent Offenders. (Natural Life Sentences Should Have A Maximum 25 Year Cap.)
5.) Florida’s Civil Commitment of those deemed to be Sexual Predators.
6.) Florida’s Civil Commitment of those deemed to be Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity.
7.) Florida’s Direct Filing Against Minors to Prosecute and Convict them as Adults.
8.) Florida’s use of Minimum Mandatory Sentencing.
9.) Florida’s use of the Indefinite Closed Management/Indefinite Solitary Confinement of its Incarcerated Persons.
Regardless of homicide crimes or sex crimes or all other violent crimes both capital punishment/the death penalty and public sex offender registry are cruel and unusual punishments that need to be abolished. They do not work and they are both barbaric.
I agree 100%. I once heard a former prosecutor say that the death penalty was state sanctioned murder
I saw that on the news today at noon. So, a 3-time murderer doesn’t get the death penalty (Sometimes) and yet someone who did not take a life gets death? I mean those are awful charges, we all agree, but putting someone to death who has not taken a life seems way out of proportion.
Most of us are already serving a life sentence on the registry, so was that not punishment enough? Will that also become retroactive? (giving us the death penalty). I have said all along either the authorities will find a way to kill us or vigilantes will.