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Jared Loughner Sentenced to 7 Life Terms Plus 140 Years in Prison for Deadly Tucson Rampage

Nov. 8, 2012 2:04pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Jared Loughner Sentenced to Life in Prison for Deadly Tucson Rampage | Gabrielle Giffords Shooter Sentenced

Jared Loughner was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the deadly 2011 Tucson, Ariz. shooting rampage that killed six people and injured 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, whom he shot in the head.

U.S. District Judge Larry sentenced Loughner to seven life terms — one for each victim killed, plus an additional sentence for Giffords’ attempted assassination — plus another 140 years without the possibility of parole.

The Arizona Republic reported both Giffords and husband Mark Kelly were in the courtroom for the sentencing. Standing beside Giffords, Kelly addressed Loughner, as did other victims of the massacre.

“You may have put a bullet in her head but you haven’t put a dent in her spirit,” Kelly said, according to KVOA-TV. He added that Loughner has “decades upon decades” to contemplate what he did, but “after today, Gabby and I are done thinking of you.”

Loughner, now 24, declined to speak at the hearing. He pleaded guilty in August to 19 federal charges under an agreement that he would spend the rest of his life in prison without parole.

Loughner was diagnosed with schizophrenia after the shooting and underwent forcible psychotropic drug treatment.

Dr. Christina Pietz, Loughner’s psychologist, testified Thursday that he was competent and able to understand the proceeding.

Burns said before announcing the sentence that Loughner had no reasonable insanity defense for what he did.

“The facts show he traveled there with the purpose of shooting Ms. Giffords,” Burns said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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christhefanatic
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:58pm
Uncle Fester!

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- christhefanatic
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 9:05pm
  Anyone with a head shaped like that should be arrested to begin with.
  
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Blairolina
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:01pm
The lack of compassion and understanding of mental illness on this issue is shocking to me. I am as conservative as any of you but I’m not going to say we should have executed a mentally ill man who was off his medication, or tht it’s because his parents were democrats. These comments are infantile and ignorant.

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:13pm
  GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT A TRIAL
  
  The truth would come out and we would find out about about the governments involvement. You should realize that that is not the real picture of the killer. Just as the news media altered photos of Tryvon Martin, this killer’s appearance was also altered. The assassin was really out to get Congresswomen Bachmann or the Federal Judge. We never were told anything about that GOP Federal Judge who was killed. Maybe the Judge was on President Obama’s Kill List.
  
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- positive1
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:38pm
  How much in tax payer monies did Arizona’s district attorney spend to come to this conclusion? And how much more will be spent to imprison him for the rest or his life, 1 to 2 Million? (who wants to be a millionaire) This is one of the many reasons why we are broke as a nation.
  
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Blairolina
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 7:51pm
This won’t be popular, but I have a serious problem with this sentence. He pleaded guilty, saving all the victims and the taxpayers the horror, expense, and inconvenience of a trial. He was sentenced to SEVEN life terms PLUS 140 years. Normally, when someone pleads guilty the sentence is lessened. Loughner has been diagnosed as schizophrenic. He had to be forcibly medicated in order to be fit to stand trial. The court-appointed psychologist who treated Loughner, warned that although Loughner was competent to plead guilty, he remained severely mentally ill. He could end up in a prison such as the federal lockup in Florence, Colo., that houses some of the country’s most notorious criminals. This man has a serious mental illness. He was not medicated at the time of the attack. This sentence treats him like any average thug. He is a sick boy. I have friends and family members who are schizophrenic or bipolar. One of my friends once tried to cast the devil out of me when he was off his meds. I got a call in the middle of the night once saying my family member was out in the parking lot of the apt complex screaming for everyone to get out, that there was a gas leak – again a med problem, not a gas leak. Of course, I am in no way minimizing, justifying, or excusing what he did. All I’m saying is that he was sick. He will be sick for the rest of his life. But with medication, he might lead a more normal, non-violent life. It wasn’t his fault he was sick. His actions were the resu

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- Blairolina
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 7:54pm
  result of an illness. Now, because he was sick and didn’t get help, he will never have a the chance for a normal life? I do not agree with this sentence. It doesn’t bode well for the future of the mentally ill.
  
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Alan
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 7:09pm
The article forgot to mention that both of Loughner’s parents are registered Democrats, and his mom is a duly elected democrat commissioner, and a democrat sheriff was constantly arresting Jared Loughner and letting him go. This was the same Sheriff that got up before MSM cameras and swore up and down the shooting was Sarah Palin’s fault for using targeting imagery on that state, the same imagery Democrats have used for decades, but no one in the MSM seemed to notice that. In fact, Loughner made threats against Giffords before Palin ran for office. So I wonder who’s fault that was? McCain’s? An awful lot of pertinent data was left out of this article. I mention it because the MSM never brought up the details of this guy’s family, or that blabbering (lying) Democrat Sheriff falsely accusing Sarah Palin, much as the MSM and Democrats accused her.

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Larry E
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:40pm
Sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me! I’d be willing to bet that in 20 years or less some shyster lawyer will be whining about how he needs to be turned loose on society again. But maybe not since he shot a Demorat.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:30pm
The Perfect Curly Joe. But he is a Killer. Yes. Your in the New America

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stealthseesall
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:28pm
But the important thing is Jarad got to vote for Obama.

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PingPongPing
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:27pm
This is the face of a democrat.

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- Blairolina
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 7:53pm
  This is the face of the mentally ill off their medication. Maybe you can relate?
  
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geomann
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:03pm
That doesn’t make any sense: “diagnosed with schizophrenia…no reasonable insanity defense for what he did.” If ever there was an insanity case, this guy is it. That said, he is dangerous, and needs to be locked up.

I applaud Giffords and Kelly for their strength through all of this. It must be very difficult to avoid wringing that guy’s neck, regardless of his mental state.

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:08pm
  3 hots and a cot for the rest of his days, cable tv to boot. He has his meal ticket.
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:30pm
Damn, will the Appeasment Process revisit this in a few years?

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Helpful
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:54pm
The 7 life sentences is all for show, why not just Execute him, and be done with it. Why prolong it, why not say If you do crap like this we are going to execute you. But know you guys will pat your self on the back and say look what we did, and you will study him and try to figure out why he did it ? He deserves to die…………………

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- GC
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:25pm
  Idiotic sentencing that will let this monster enjoy leisurely worry-free life in prison, including free food and bed, gym and TV perks, not to forget free medical care … all of it on your and my dime.
  
  Code of Hammurabi seems more appropriate here,m and putting the money toward national debt instead of spending it on this monster’s upkeep for the next 60 or more years.
  
  PURE MADNESS!
  
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anOpinion
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:47pm
“JARED LOUGHNER SENTENCED TO 7 LIFE TERMS PLUS 140 YEARS”

Or in other words, the average wait time to see a doctor once Obamacare takes hold.

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CWPrequired
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:36pm
Liberal math again. Can’t we just say until he’s dead?

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dovndce
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:21pm
Gabby Giffords took it in the face just like Marilyn Monroe, Juanita Broderick, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Reggie Love, and Larry Sinclair.

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dovndce
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:19pm
Just think if Jared Loughner was Black or had killed a Republican he would have gotten a sentence of fifteen (15) years to be served concurrently, he’d be released on parole after serving just five (5) years behind bars and that’s IF he was convicted.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:14pm
He could have been an even worse criminal. He could have shot all those people, gone home, and made a film mocking Mohammed. Then……then….he would have gotten the death penalty.

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superhawg45
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:50pm
The Ft. Hood terrorist killings (sorry, workplace violence) happened in Feb 2009 and the trial hasn’t even started yet……30 months came and went between events. Guess some justice has to wait for an election to play out.

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- red_white_blue2
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:12pm
  and it wont start for another 4 yrs now
  
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huey6367
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:47pm
Well Jared, looks like the big house for you. You have two heads. Learn to use them both in the pokie.

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RockyMountainPATRIOT
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:42pm
Yaaaaay! Another social deviant who’s getting free room, board & the finest medical care available for the rest of his life! Yaaaay! You & I will be fined & penalized when we can no longer afford the crappy medical care that will be available to us! Yaaaaaay!

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:18pm
  Seriously.
  
  Don’t worry though, he’ll be in jail for a good 500+ years, so that’ll learn’em! If he dies, they’ll bring him back to life and put him on life support, just because!
  
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- Gary_K
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:30pm
  In about 10 to 15 years we will have to pay for his sex change operation.
  
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Uechi
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:40pm
If the guy was insane he should have been commited he isn’t so he should be executed. How many people do you get to murder before you deserve the death penalty? The sentence is an insult to the families of the people murdered. You take a life with premeditation and it’s not war you die that simple.It’s called justice!

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- hauschild
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:04pm
  It’s called “selective insanity”, which cannot be an option unless you fit a specific stereotype.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:14pm
  You see, white guys cannot be insane. They can only be classified as EVIL. Only minorities and woman have the right to claim insanity. Oh, and did ya get a load of those sentences? Can they be any more ridiculous? Hey, I have an idea. Let’s sentence him to 500 life terms plus 757, 385 years. That will prevent anybody else from even thinking about it (sarc) Pfft………………
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:45pm
  I’ve always wondered: An insane man lacks moral agency when committing crimes yet is a mortal danger to us all if he can’t be cured, ergo death penalty, however, if he’s made sane he wouldn’t be able to live with the effects of his crimes, as what sane man would not commit suicide if he realized he murdered a lot of people?
  
  The insanity defense for murder just doesn’t seem to hold water. What are we to believe, that we can cure a sane man just so he can kill himself? Or that we are to keep an incurable psychopath alive who is a danger to all men at large?
  
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mcsledge
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:39pm
Life in the pen, a true reward for one who killed six people. He robbed six individuals of their ability to prepare to meet God. This man deserves nothing less than a bullet to the head. He cannot return the lifes he ended. His eternal fate has been sealed.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:44pm
  Lex Talionis
  
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- Iamaduck
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Prepare to meet god? lol! Oh my what I’m going to wear?Oh my, my breath is nice? Oh my does this suit makes me look fat? Grow up son, god is not real.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:07pm
  @IMADUCK
  
  God is not real, yet you feel compelled to admonish somebody for believing in God?
  
  Where do you people come from?!?!?
  
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- TonyNitzke
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:35pm
  Well I want to meet my maker
  Don’t want to wait until I die
  
  – Joziah Longo “The Grand Slambovians”
  
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AllAmericanGirl22
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:31pm
Justice has been (mostly) served. I mean, he killed how many people, including a 9 year old and thats not enough to get the death penalty?

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- PubliusPencilman
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:39pm
  How is it you small government folks are totally OK with the government having the right to put to death one of its citizens?
  
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- RockyMountainPATRIOT
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:13pm
  @ PUB
  We’ve always been okay with the death penalty because it has always been in the hands of THE PEOPLE…not the gov. Although I fear with an unbridled 2nd term, that could change. I bet you voted for someone else to *elected* to a life term, didn’t you? Hey, good job of brainwashing half of the American People into being terrified of freedom, though…good job.
  
  I will continue to reject your paradigm. I WILL NOT COMPLY.
  
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raptor45
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:24pm
Uncle Fester here is getting ready to have that odd little smirk wiped right off of his mug. Those bulls are gonna tear him up.

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huey6367
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:15pm
Schizo or not, I still believe in the death penalty.

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- Carrie3570
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:27pm
  He should get the death penalty. Why make a deal with someone like that? Makes no sense.
  
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Individualism
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:09pm
bald people have seem to have been behind most of the attacks now a days.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:13pm
  Lose your ****, lose your sanity?
  
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