Current Events > Jury is TORN whether to send AMERICAN to DEATH for DECAPITATING a CHINESE Girl!!

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The latest on the sentencing of 30 y/o Former Grad Illinois Student, Brendt Christensen for his grisly murder and DECAPITATION of a Chinese Student has been called off for the day as deliberations will continue tomorrow where it appears the jury is TORN on whether to sentence him to DEATH that the Chinese family of the victim and the prosecutors are fighting for!!

Jurors went home without a decision whether the doctoral student should be put to death as the judge sent them home.

It only took them less than 90 minutes to find him guilty but the death sentence is deadlocking the jury.

Among the questions they must answer in the penalty phase is whether he displayed unique cruelty in how he killed Chinese Scholar Yingying Zhang.

The defense said while he admits he killed Zhang, his life was a LOVING, GENTLE child and other POSITIVE characteristics that should spare his life and that he was going to leave prison "in a casket" no matter what their decision as they are trying to HUMANIZE his persona.

His father also went up to the jury and BEGGED them to not kill his son as he cannot "bear" the thought of his son being sent to death. Brendt began to cry for the FIRST time which was the first he's ever shown emotion in court.

But Yingying's family were less forgiving as the mother cried out on the death of her daughter as her father said this was a "step forward justice" who demand him be sent to death.

It happened in 2017 when Brendt pretended to be a police officer and lured Zhang into his car and took her back to his apartment where she was going to see a landlord about renting an apartment that day.

The muscular Brendt dragged a 5'4 Zhang into his apartment and began beating her with a baseball bat and then began choking her and then DECAPITATING her and hid her body in an undisclosed location which he wont reveal.

Records show he was researching how to "kidnap and kill" someone on the internet as he searched through the deep web in search of ways to kill someone as it was his FANTASY to murder someone. He was the last person to see her that day as his car was caught with him luring Zhang into his car.

His girlfriend wore a WIRE to bust him as she was hesitant at first but wanted to do the right thing. Recordings overheard Brendt tell her he wouldn't kill her because she was too "HEAVY" to hide and that he killed Zhang out of THRILL of being a serial killer..a dark thought he dreamed of doing. He also described Zhang being "valiant" as she fought back and scratched him before he bound her..He pretended to be one of the "worried" people and went on a search for her after she disappeared as well and went to vigils. He also claimed that Zhang was his 13th victim though there's no evidence of any other victims.

Illinois no longer has capital punishment but he is now tried in federal court.

Zhang had only been in America for 2 MONTHS as it was her and her family's dream for her to make a career for herself and to make her family proud.

If you were on the Jury, would you vote Life or Death?

Brendt - Going Down







Yingying (Decased) and her parents -










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Seems like a poor choice of words in topic title.
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Unfit to exist anymore imo. Anyone capable of that should be euthanized like a vicious animal. There's no humanity left in someone like this.
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Fuck that smug looking pos. He deserves a bullet between the eyes.

Is it usually the jury that determines the punishment? I thought thats left to the judge
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No way this guy should be able to live in a cell for the rest of his life, its a waste of money and too good for him. Not even worth the waste of electricity from the chair or the cost of chemicals to do it "humanly". The guillotine seems an appropriate route for this dirtbag.
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This fuck face deserves the death penalty.
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Fossil posted...

Fuck that smug looking pos. He deserves a bullet between the eyes.

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I'm not a fan of the death penalty, but decapitation seems like the "unique cruelty" the article is talking about.
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If the person he murdered was my family member, I'd feel no better if he was put to death. I'm all for jail being about rehabilitation for most offenses, but there are some people who don't deserve that and I feel like life in prison and having to live that life every day would be worse off for him than freeing him from that via death. The death penalty isn't cheap either. I'll gladly pay for his shitty turkey sandwich knowing he's suffering in there. But where it gets tricky is...what if life in jail doesn't even bother him..then it kind of defeats the purpose.
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One thing for sure, he's gonna die in jail - one way or the other.
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When you hear about this dude wanting to be Dexter Pt. 2, you'd think it would be a layup for the jury.
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The bastard also wouldn't say what he did to the body and that 'she's gone for ever' never to be found.

He also tried to kidnap another girl before zhang but the other girl refused to get in his car.

Screw life in prison or death sentence, this bastard should be tortured for answers with the best chemicals we have today. If what he said is true, there could be 12 other bodies out there.
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Id say life, but I think you also have to consider international stuff. Id ship him to China for killing a citizen and let them decide what to do with him.
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Bossdog421 posted...

No way this guy should be able to live in a cell for the rest of his life, its a waste of money and too good for him. Not even worth the waste of electricity from the chair or the cost of chemicals to do it "humanly". The guillotine seems an appropriate route for this dirtbag.

The death penalty costs us more then life in prison. When a sentence of death is handed down the law is you get an automatic appeal. Seeing as it would be ending someone's life they want to make sure they got it right. The average death penalty case has the inmate spending 15 years on death row. In the end it's actually cheaper to lock them up for the rest of their life then to go through the whole process.

Btw, the guillotine IS a humane way of killing someone, that's why it was invented. It ends the life in one swift blow that's over in seconds. If you want to kill someone inhumanely by essentially torturing them to death, well then that means you are no better then they are. In which case when should we schedule your execution for?
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I can't wait until the death penalty is illegal. Sick of tired of barbaric people wishing death of people.
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TheVipaGTS posted...

But where it gets tricky is...what if life in jail doesn't even bother him..then it kind of defeats the purpose.

Can't believe @TheVipaGTS wants to set this monster free!!!

Shotgunnova posted...

When you hear about this dude wanting to be Dexter Pt. 2, you'd think it would be a layup for the jury.

Wouldn't Dexter......not kill an innocent woman though?
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Of course the guy looks like shit.
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They should leave him in his cell with no food or water for 12 days.
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Its Illinois so of course they're torn
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Reverend_Wilson posted...

I can't wait until the death penalty is illegal. Sick of tired of barbaric people wishing death of people.

Nothing barbaric about wanting this human scum removed from the world. It's a better place without him.

It's disgusting that the jury is showing any kind of sympathy to this POS.
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i'm typically in favor of keeping them in prison to think about what they've done every single day of their life until they die. but i wouldn't give a shit if he jumped into a helicopter propeller.
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Death penalty!
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decapitate him tbh

It happened in 2017 when Brendt pretended to be a police officer and lured Zhang into his car and took her back to his apartment where she was going to see a landlord about renting an apartment that day.

The muscular Brendt dragged a 5'4 Zhang into his apartment and began beating her with a baseball bat and then began choking her and then DECAPITATING her and hid her body in an undisclosed location which he wont reveal.

Kill him. He doesn't fucking deserve to live.
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Death.
And dont wet the sponge.
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Gamerguymass posted...

Bossdog421 posted...

No way this guy should be able to live in a cell for the rest of his life, its a waste of money and too good for him. Not even worth the waste of electricity from the chair or the cost of chemicals to do it "humanly". The guillotine seems an appropriate route for this dirtbag.

The death penalty costs us more then life in prison. When a sentence of death is handed down the law is you get an automatic appeal. Seeing as it would be ending someone's life they want to make sure they got it right. The average death penalty case has the inmate spending 15 years on death row. In the end it's actually cheaper to lock them up for the rest of their life then to go through the whole process.

Btw, the guillotine IS a humane way of killing someone, that's why it was invented. It ends the life in one swift blow that's over in seconds. If you want to kill someone inhumanely by essentially torturing them to death, well then that means you are no better then they are. In which case when should we schedule your execution for?

Way to completely misinterpret everything i said. Regardless if the actual process of death row is more expensive that was only a snippet of what i was mentioning, I was more in line with he doesn't deserve to live out years in prison. The guy is young, this maniac would be in the system for decades and could very well be a danger to other inmates.

When did i mention the guillotine was an torture method? When did i wish torture on him? Humanly was in quotes because it is widely considered humane even though it is a death sentence, which in itself isn't a "humane" action even though i agree with the death penalty. I brought up the guillotine because the punishment fit the crime.

But thanks for wishing death on me.
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iPhone_7 posted...

Is it usually the jury that determines the punishment? I thought thats left to the judge

The jury does.
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Seems like the type that should just be discarded. Some people are beyond saving and just need to be done away with.
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He wont even say where her body is? Death.
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Dear jury,
It was premeditated. He:
- lured her under false pretenses
- beat her with a baseball bat
- stabbed her in the neck
- raped her (this isn't mentioned in this article, but is in all others I've seen)
- bragged about it to his girlfriend
- did it for the "thrill"
- idolized Ted Bundy

This POS is not capable of rehabilitation. His crimes were exceptionally cruel and disgusting. He deserves death, and nothing else.

Sincerely, someone with a brain
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Update: He got life in prison.
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SMH

mrduckbear posted...

The muscular Brendt dragged a 5'4 Zhang into his apartment and began beating her with a baseball bat and then began choking her and then DECAPITATING her and hid her body in an undisclosed location which he wont reveal.

Kill this motherfucker.
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Considering the details of the murder, death. And because he wants life in prison, death. But then, tax dollars, he costs more to kill than leave alive. And because he'll be there for potentially decades, maybe he'll suffer for his crimes.

So... I guess life in prison.
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meestermj posted...

Dear jury,
It was premeditated. He:
- lured her under false pretenses
- beat her with a baseball bat
- stabbed her in the neck
- raped her (this isn't mentioned in this article, but is in all others I've seen)
- bragged about it to his girlfriend
- did it for the "thrill"
- idolized Ted Bundy

This POS is not capable of rehabilitation. His crimes were exceptionally cruel and disgusting. He deserves death, and nothing else.

Sincerely, someone with a brain

it's a shame this fucker got away with it by getting life in prison there's no justice.
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