Accused Colorado clinic shooter intends to plead guilty, expects execution: report

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:14am EST

Accused Colorado clinic shooter intends to plead guilty, expects execution: report

DENVER | BY KEITH COFFMAN

The man accused of fatally shooting three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last year told a Denver television station that he wants to plead guilty and expects to be executed, the CBS affiliate reported on Wednesday.

In a phone call from the El Paso County jail where he is being held without bond, Robert Lewis Dear told a reporter with KCNC-TV that he wants to act as his own lawyer and is willing to pay for his crimes.

“Well, I’m just an honest man and I believe I’m guilty so I am just going to plead guilty,” he said. “I’d say that they are going to execute me.”

Dear, 57, stands accused of 179 felony counts, including charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and assault stemming from the Nov. 27 attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs that also wounded nine.

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[hlthe2b]

1. He deserves it, but I think CO is moving away from DP & it is unlikely to be his sentence...

While a lifelong opponent to the DP, this guy's case surely would meet my criteria, if I were not.

[Nye Bevan]

2. Life without parole, letting him quietly rot, would be so, so much better.

He wants the circus and the drama of the death penalty, the clemency hearings, the last-minute stays, and all of the trappings. He wants martyrdom. All the other reasons to oppose the DP aside, don't give him what he wants.

[hifiguy]

3. Yep. Pitch him into a dungeon

in a supermax and let him rot in anonymity.