Back in 2007 David Russ murdered Madeleine Leinen. Russ had broke into her home hog-tied her and then stabbed her and strangled her to death in her own bathroom.
Once David Russ was caught, he done something we usually don’t see with criminals.
Russ ordered his attorneys to do nothing to spare him the death penalty.
Too bad more criminals aren’t like David Russ, think of the millions that would be saved each year if violent felons were simply put to death for punishment of their crimes. Because right now life in prison or a death penalty just doesn’t seem to have much of an effect on most criminals. It’s pretty sad when the criminals have no fear of being caught, but of course we have a lot of defense attorneys we can thank for that, just look at Baez.
Anyway, back to this post, today on May 13, 2009 when David Russ went to court and people were concerned over the trial of Joshua Rosa going so fast, well this one only took 2 minutes.
That’s right 2 minutes.
Russ asked for nothing less than the death penalty and he got it today.
The judge said that she could have chosen life without parole, but because of the aggravating circumstances of this murder, she elected to give him death.
Even the details of his crime were a little unusual. David Russ watched Madeleine Leinen, who was 58 at the time of her death, leave for work. Once she left, he broke into her home and then made himself at home.
While he waited for Madeleine Leinen to return home from work, David Russ decided to take a shower, then he was a little hungry so he cooked some food and being the considerate thief he was he even decided to wash the dishes. Now after he finished eating and cleaning he decided to pack up her valuables. Once that was done, he decided to wait for the victim to return home.
Once Madeleine Leinen returned home, she started to unload the groceries she just bought she was attacked.
David Russ waited all day for his victim to return home, when at any time he simply could have left the scene and with his cleaning up could have possibly destroyed any DNA/fingerprint evidence he left behind.
The family members in court today said that the brutality of what Leinen suffered was incomprehensible.
"I wouldn't want that for anybody," she said. "She didn't do anything to hurt him. Nothing. She didn't even know him. The horrible things he did to her, I've never heard anything like it."
Now this case gets stranger and stranger as it goes on.
Since David Russ refused to allow his attorneys to put on any type of defense, the judge hired 2 attorneys for him.
Jeff Dowdy and Mike Nielsen were nice enough to tell the judge how smart and considerate and generous David Russ is when he is sober. I wonder where the attorneys came up with smart and considerate, I mean after all drugs or not, this man broke into a home and waited all day to murder the victim. When at anytime he could have elected to leave once he stole everything from her and the scum attorneys had to audacity to tell the judge how nice, smart and considerate this man was.
I guess they were taking the fact that he cleaned up after himself after cooking her food into consideration. Who knows?
But in a series of letters to the judge Russ blamed his actions on cocaine. Who to blame? Cocaine. Why is it always the fault of something else, cocaine or not, this man made a conscious decision to hang out in a home all day and wait for the victim to return home.
David Russ just picked a victim out of the blue and decided to kill her. There was no know relationship/friendship between Russ and the victim.
Now what’s even scarier, is once he murdered her, he fled. Russ ran to Texas and actually broke into another home of other women. Now this time for whatever reason, he elected to leave before the women returned home.
Now the sickening part of this case comes to play with the court attorneys. Nielsen said that Russ would appeal the sentence.
I wonder what grounds they will appeal on. Poor defense maybe? They have no one to blame but them selves. The convicted murderer wants to die for his crimes, let him.
Of course if David Russ was put to death the attorneys couldn’t make any more money from Russ. So they will play games and waste all the time possible to now appeal the sentence that a violent murderer wanted.
Sounds like equal and fair justice to me.
7 comments:
Supreme Court has already ruled judges cannot impose the death penalty, only juries.
This case will be sent back to the lower court to have a jury decide if death is the correct punishment.
David was at one time my employer a friend and mentor thanks to him i have almost 20 years sober im not condoning his actions and firmly believe that you take a life you lose yours and he will get his but none the less with a clean and clear mind he is a good guy and stepped up and took responsibility for the damage he did i know he caused a ton of damage but he did help some people when he was clean
David was at one time my employer a friend and mentor thanks to him i have almost 20 years sober im not condoning his actions and firmly believe that you take a life you lose yours and he will get his but none the less with a clean and clear mind he is a good guy and stepped up and took responsibility for the damage he did i know he caused a ton of damage but he did help some people when he was clean
Well he took my cousin life,and hurt the family with no way to ever forget how she suffered because he was evil,ple ple don't say he was nice really
He owned up to his roll and even told the judge that he wanted to be sentencne to death so he would not hurt your family
Racist scumbag real piece of dog shit!!!
I was locked up with this sub human animal cracker un Seminole county.
Give him crack and a chance to do something in a different way he would..
This Demonic Entity was allowed access to Earth with intention of Killing he has more victims but only got caught with one crime..
May he crock pot cook in hell.
He seems like a nice person. He did not want to hurt the family anymore then he already did.
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