Dismemberment...?

Question

What do you think should happen to the guy in Michigan who killed and dismembered his wife?

Answer 1

Tara Grant was strangled by her husband and then later she was dismembered in her father- law's tool & die shop (Pfeiffer's) located a little over a mile from my home. In 1995 I spent a lot of time volunteering to help pass the truth in sentencing and sentencing guidelines acts in the Michigan State Congress. That was so there would be mandatory length of sentence for certain crimes and so that a criminal must stay in prison for at least 75% of his sentence. Before those two laws passed the legislature, when the prisons were overcrowded, criminals were released on early parole. A member of my family was murdered, the shooter is in prison for life, the guy who held her arms so the shooter could put the gun in her mouth, was put on an electronic tether.

Some cases get more press coverage than others. When there is more press coverage, there is more pressure to prosecute the perpetrator and keep him in prison. At first, Steven Grant was going to be charged with "open murder". After all the media attention, he was charged with "first degree murder" which carries a mandatory sentence (because of the truth in sentencing law) of life in prison.

Michigan does not allow the death penalty now. The "fiscal impact" of "truth in sentencing" and why it was difficult to get it passed is because it costs approximately $30K per year to keep a person in prison. See these articles:
http://www.allbusiness.com/public-administration/justice-public-order/1009433-1.html
Michigan: Prison budget grows more than education budget.
http://www.crcmich.org/PUBLICAT/1990s/1996/note9602.pdf

My choice of sentence for Steven Grant would be one that is no longer practiced. I think he should be hanged, drawn and quartered. This is a form of execution used in England from the 13th century until 1790.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/189300.html

First the prisoner was drawn to the place of execution on a hurdle, a type of sledge. (Originally he was merely dragged behind a horse.) Then he was hanged. Cut down while still alive, he was disembowelled and his entrails burned before his eyes. (Some references, such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, say this step, and not dragging behind a horse, is what is meant by "drawn," but actual sentences of execution don't support this view.) Finally the condemned was beheaded and his body cut into quarters, one arm or leg to a quarter. How exactly the quartering was to be accomplished was not always specified, but on at least some occasions horses were hitched to each of the victim's limbs and spurred in four directions. An assistant with a sword or cleaver was sometimes assigned to make a starter cut and ease the strain on the animals. The remains were often put on display (gibbeted) as a warning to others.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_239.html

Steven Grant used to be an aide for the State Senator Jack Faxon.

Answer 2

at least he KILLED her and made her dead prior to beginning to cut her up, huh?

most states have now enacted laws against capital punishment. i don't know what MI has done or not done about that.

well, i think that psychotic murderers should be put into isolated wards and rooms. i don't think they should mix with the general population or be allowed much exercise time, since what they really should be doing is thinking for the rest of their lives on what put them there. their doors should be like those for criminals that bite and try to strangle guards: heavy, only a tray-sized food pass through--no windows.

in addition, i have no qualms about "cruel and unusual punishment." by this i mean that this demon should be treated to sights of dismemberment at least once a week. such as meat processors donating animal pieces such as legs, feet, ears, tongues, hearts (beating is best) and of course, genitalia. these pieces of animals could be tossed into his cell about an hour after a meal. maybe then he'd puke it up.

it would not seem cruel and unusual to me either if gallons of blood were contributed by meat processors to occasionally be splashed all over his walls every now and then, letting it dribble and drip down onto the floor and his toilet.

the only books they should let him have are those that discuss the psychosis that he possesses. as well as comic books picturing devils and demons.

he should be subjected to long, drawn out visits from the staff psychiatrist, having to answer the same questions again and again, causing him to feel GUILT.

he should not see his children!

he shouldn't have any tv, telephone, or even a ball to play with on his half hour out in a cage. it is okay if very vicious and violent criminals are in the cages next to him, with full knowledge of what he did, so they can spit on him. prisoners hate (1) child molesters; (2) wife beaters; and (3) police officer prisoners.

death by lethal injection should be reserved for good, hard working taxpayers that have come down with fatal and painful diseases in case they want to die easy. he doesn't deserve such goodness.

Answer 3

Seriously. I want to know what she did to deserve that?
Eye for an eye right? Not sure what I'm saying but it still wasn't nearly as bad a crime as that freak that raped and killed that little girl recently. I heard he was let off of some sim type charges over 20 times b4 this. At least the lady got to sin...

Answer 4

If Michigan was not such a pitiful wussy state, they would have the death penalty and have that sob executed. I have a home in Michigan but do not live there.

Answer 5

I think he should have to spend the rest of his miserable life in solitary confinement with no books, no Tv , nothing to distract his mind. So he can constantly think about what he did to the mother of his two little children. Putting him to death would be too kind, He needs to suffer mentally.

Answer 6

let the punishment fit the crime I always say.
If convicted, let some sicko do the same thing to him.

I won't shed one tear for him, either.

Answer 7

An eye for an eye.