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Marco Chapman: Asking to Die for His Crimes

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Posted: 9:53 PM May 7, 2008
Last Updated: 10:10 PM May 7, 2008
Reporter: WSAZ NewsChannel 3
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CHARLOTTE, NC (WSAZ) -- Many criminal defendants insist they're innocent, but not Marco Chapman.

He's from cabin creek in Kanawha County and he not only admitted to murder, he asked to be put to death for his crimes.

Chapman pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing two children in Warsaw, Kentucky and a judge sentenced him to death.

Four years later: Chapman is asking the court system to speed up his date of execution.

In a jailhouse interview Wednesday: Chapman says the people he's close to understand why he's making this choice.

Chapman said, " They accept my reasoning of not wanting to keep the family suffering with me living and their children dead and, I'm ready to accept my fate."

Now because Chapman did not want a trial or a jury and asked for his death sentence, some experts argue that he's improperly using the legal system to commit suicide.

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Posted by: Ryan on May 9, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Just hang him. who cares if he wants assisted suicide. Do it and get it over with

Posted by: charleston on May 9, 2008 at 11:56 AM
thats right Ann a eye for an eye id they kill someone they should die

Posted by: Kim on May 9, 2008 at 08:50 AM
The thing is.... the court is afraid that he is using the system to commit suicide...but 10 years down the road, the court can "legally" kill him and thats not considered murder? I am for the death penalty- but I think the reasoning here is not right.

Posted by: Carry on May 8, 2008 at 08:24 PM
You all don't know nothing. I have seen him at Eddyville, ky. His other inmates like him. They all get along good. I do think that if he wants to die, they should let him and they will. Which that is what alot of them will be doing. Why make them set on death roll for 25 to 30 years. It makes no sence to me.

Posted by: ann on May 8, 2008 at 04:39 PM
he's not getting anything in prison, inmates on death row have their own cell and aren't around the general population and are hardly around the other inmates on death row even

Posted by: ann on May 8, 2008 at 04:35 PM
i don't know why it takes so long for the appeals to go thru anyway, there is no reason for a person on death row who is guilty of the crime to sit and wait for 25 years. that is ridiculous! public hangings, that will make people stop and think, i would attend them!! i want the death penalty brought back to WV and all over the united states! and the majority of the people do, its just the few idiots we keep electing who say its unconstitutional that we keep putting in office. if a person running for any office says they want to bring back the death penalty they have my vote!!!!

Posted by: Bernice on May 8, 2008 at 02:45 PM
Why should the taxpayers fund an extended prison sentence? The man was sentenced to death, after all; our judicial system takes too long to execute the condemned and draws out the appeals process far too long. Let's save the money that would otherwise be spent on his incarceration and perhaps spend it on convicting other criminals who are fighting the system.

Posted by: Stacy on May 8, 2008 at 02:02 PM
I can agree to most comments made here. On one hand he should have to live with what he's done and let the guilt eat him alive. But on the other hand, we'd sure be able to save a lot of money, not having to pay for scum like him to live happily ever after in prision, using up tax dollars you and I work hard for. So, I say, go ahead and kill him. Maybe we could speed up the process for some other offenders as well. We'll need all the extra money we can save if McCain gets in. Bush has almost depleated US of any money. McCain is right there waiting to make his pockets bigger and yours non-existant.

Posted by: Anonymous on May 8, 2008 at 11:30 AM
let him suffer and think about those kids everyday!!!!

Posted by: rob on May 8, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Won't happen. Gary Gilmore tried same thing long time ago. Read the book the Executioners Song.

Posted by: anon on May 8, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Kill the b*****d. We as taxpayers dont need the extra cost of keeping these people alive. I have read where it costs $30-$40 thousand dollars a year to house these prisoners. That is more than most of us make in a years time, and we have to take care of families with our money. Its not about him getting what he wants, its about proving to criminals that you will be killed for doing the crimes. Its about saving taxpayer monies. Its about making these people burn in h***.

Posted by: Anonymous on May 8, 2008 at 09:35 AM
i think the more he ask bout doing it faster the more they should let him wait. he has been doing what he has wanted long enough, killing children.....what a loser, let him set there for another 5 years then do it.he is probably getting messed with by other prisoners and can't get the fact he killed children out his mind. let him suffer!!

Posted by: Anonymous on May 8, 2008 at 08:50 AM
i think that he should have to suffer..like he did to others... thats messed up how he just wants to die to get away from everything!!!!

Posted by: reader on May 8, 2008 at 08:39 AM
I strongly agree with Anonymous 10:19pm and Isaac. He wants to die soon because of what is happening to him in prison. That is the easy way out. Let him SUFFER just as the two children did.

Posted by: ann on May 8, 2008 at 08:09 AM
you are kidding me "experts argue that he's improperly using the legal system to commit suicide" and exactly what kind of experts are these? I would like to meet these idiots. put him to death, who cares if its what he wants or not

Posted by: Brett on May 8, 2008 at 07:59 AM
He's using the system. What's he got to lose. Taxpayers are the losers in this one if he stays in prison and uses our legal system to keep him from commiting suicide. Either way he admits to killing two children and the legal system found him guilty.

Posted by: Anonymous on May 8, 2008 at 06:53 AM
let them excute him thats less tax dollars will have to pay

Posted by: Isaac on May 8, 2008 at 05:20 AM
This guy is catching it in prison because he killed children, they should make him live in there for another 10 yrs !! He is trying to take the easy way out , make the pig suffer !!

Posted by: Anonymous on May 8, 2008 at 12:50 AM
they will not give him what they want..like scott peterson this dude will sit on death row til he dies of old age..you can't count on the system anymore

Posted by: Anonymous on May 7, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Let him have what he wants. A lot more people need to come to this realization and make the choice he is making.

Posted by: Bobby on May 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Give him what he wants. He's a child killer and why should the tax payers pay the state to care for this scum until he dies of old age. If anyone out there yells out the death penalty is wrong, hasn't had a family member murdered!

Posted by: Anonymous on May 7, 2008 at 10:12 PM
I say don't do it. Make him suffer. Don't give him what he wants.

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