Capital Punishment and the Cates Murder

By Jim on July 21st, 2010

This jerk makes me enthusiastic to see the death penalty expanded in New Hampshire.

One of the young men accused of murdering a Mont Vernon mother and the attempted murder of her young daughter yesterday said he may use an insanity defense.

Defense attorneys for Christopher A. Gribble, 20, informed the court they are preserving his right to argue Gribble was insane when he allegedly participated in the Oct. 4 pre-dawn home invasion and murder of local nurse Kimberly L. Cates, 42, and knife attack on her daughter, Jaimie, 11, inside their 4 Trow Road home.

I’m generally somewhat skeptical about giving the government the power to kill people. Inevitably it gets abused in form or another. But then I read about this asshole, and then I wish we had the death penalty in these kinds of cases.

And then there’s this other asshole.

Spader, of Brookline, N.H., wrote a rambling letter to The Telegraph of Nashua, N.H., on July 13 in which he did not profess his innocence, but calls on the public to stop assuming his guilt.

Spader, who is accused of hacking Kimberly Cates to death during an Oct. 4 home invasion in Mont Vernon, N.H., also rips Cates’ widower, David, for criticizing school officials for including some of his co-defendants in the high school yearbook.

“I feel David Cates had no right to make the big deal that he did, and the school shouldn’t have apologized,” Spader wrote. “Whether they are guilty or innocent is not up to Mr. Cates, but a judge and a jury, who know everything going on within the case.”

Ugh. A true example of a waste of life. It really does make me wonder if we need to take a lesson from Texas and begin clearing the decks by eliminate these kinds of people. No remorse from them whatsoever.