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I want to voice my anger but I can't. I'm at a loss for words--anger that deep has no place, it's an unthinkable anger to an unthinkable crime. I feel like I am in mourning. The pain and suffering and Kristen's mental thoughts during and prior to her agonizing death are far too excruciating at this moment. This is so fucked up, I don't know how her mother was able to cope and move on,,,,,,I could never have moved on from this. RIP baby Kristen,if you can.

Morgana, you said this well and I feel the same. Though, I do think this sweet angel is at peace. The moment her little body died, her spirit was taken to heaven. No more anguish or fear. I believe that. Perhaps this is why I can read and post on these types of stories, otherwise, I think I'd lose my mind, maybe my soul too.
 
Tie him up. Dip his right foot in gas, set it afire. Wait until it burns out.

Re-dip, an inch above where last dip left off, set afire, let the fire burn itself out.

Re-dip another inch above last burn line...ad nauseam.

He's not so retarded that he couldn't pass the test to get a driver's license- I say he's just evil.
 
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Every time i even think of this poor little babys death i develope tears. I can't imagine being her mother and having to think of the way she died. I hope they fuck the execution up and have to do it over and over again.

My God
 
Morgana, you said this well and I feel the same. Though, I do think this sweet angel is at peace. The moment her little body died, her spirit was taken to heaven. No more anguish or fear. I believe that. Perhaps this is why I can read and post on these types of stories, otherwise, I think I'd lose my mind, maybe my soul too.

I applaud your strength and spirituality.
 
Shawn Ryan Grell I hope, and pray that each day left in your miserable, scummy, worthless putried life is spent feeling the pain baby Kristen felt. In my opinion, you should have never been born. I hate you, hate you, hate you.

Why did you do that to such a precious child? I hope every damn demon in the depths of hell come for you every single breathing moment. I truly hate you
 
And yet, when this monster is executed, there will be protesters with their candles as well as outraged people from Europe telling us all life is sacred blah blah blah.
I'm sorry but people who commit brutal heinous murders should face the harshest punishment possible. If that punishment is death... then so be it.
 
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Kristen Courtney Salem, 7-7-1997 to 12-2-1999

Today, is the tenth anniversary of Kristen Salems gruesome murder, administered by her bio-donor, Shawn Grell.
I know where Kristen Courtney is, She knows only Joy and Overwhelming Love, but I think about her, quite often and I pray for her Mom and Grandparents that loved her so dearly. I know that it has not gotten any easier for them.
Here is a prayer in honor of her memory;
Loving Saviour, We bring to you all the deaths that we cannot understand and not the deaths only, but also the pain. We lay down all these deaths at your feet, so that you can keep them for us, since we are unable to understand them. We cannot unravel by ourselves the tangled threads of pain and anger and sadness in the world, but we ask that you would help all who are afflicted to know that suffering cannot claim the final victory. Help us to know that you are at the center and at all the boundaries, and that
you seek with all compassion, the hurt, the maimed, the wandering and the lost.
And in the midst of sorrow and suffering, help us to enter into the mystery of your cross, where you suffered our fears and losses, when you moved from life to death, so that we might know how unbounded your love is for us.
O Lord, stretch forth your wounded hands in blessing over your people to heal and restore and to draw them to yourself and to one another in love. Amen!
 
I know what he did was unimaginably horrific, but I'm a little put off by the disregard for law and the constitution in this thread.

The U.S. Supreme Court found that executing mentally retarded persons is illegal. We don't just say "so what" to that, no matter how bad what that person did is.

dare i say it? the constitution and supreme court are not getting the job done and havent for quite some time. it's not as much disregard as it is not being good enough for my liking. our system is unforgiving to the forgivable and forgiving to the unforgivable. it's basically why this place can exist and flourish as it does, because we do not weed out the scum. we give them rights and automatically attribute human qualities to people who in my opinion waived their rights to call themselves fellow man a long time ago. it's just not cutting the mustard anymore. lawyers have a lot to do with it but it's not the only reason. clearly we need some sort of life/cultural cleanup crew before we can actually go back to trusting in such idealistic entities. this man must perish immediately, what he did is arguably good enough to be first in line, but in no way should he be the last...
 
Just HORRENDOUS. The pain that little ANGEL felt. I want to well up in tears when I accidentally burn my finger - this baby was burned by her POS "father" - burned alive. The pain she must of felt is unfathomable to me. And this POS being mentally retarded? PLEASE -LIes ALL lies! He knew what he was doing, he is just a cruel, disgusting fucken load that should of been swallowed. As for him dying by lethal injection? Way too easy in my book, he gets to go to sleep and basically feel nothing? Just never wake? What about that baby girl - what she felt, the pain she felt?? Her beret started melting down her face and her face was basically burned off, she had soot in her throat so she was alive and breathing that shit in - HORRIBLE just fucken HORRIBlE- and he gets to feel NOTHING when he is put to death????? TOO EASY. Burn him burn him burn him ALIVE MAKE HIM SUFFER SUFFER SUFFER!

RIP baby angel
 
dare i say it? the constitution and supreme court are not getting the job done and havent for quite some time. it's not as much disregard as it is not being good enough for my liking. our system is unforgiving to the forgivable and forgiving to the unforgivable. it's basically why this place can exist and flourish as it does, because we do not weed out the scum. we give them rights and automatically attribute human qualities to people who in my opinion waived their rights to call themselves fellow man a long time ago. it's just not cutting the mustard anymore. lawyers have a lot to do with it but it's not the only reason. clearly we need some sort of life/cultural cleanup crew before we can actually go back to trusting in such idealistic entities. this man must perish immediately, what he did is arguably good enough to be first in line, but in no way should he be the last...

Violent crime is at the lowest point in statistical history, so what's "anymore", exactly?

Everyone knows the justice system is flawed - in some respects, severely so. But I get the impression that you haven't even begun to consider the kind of hellfire abandoning the Constitution because some punishments aren't to your "liking" would unleash upon society.

The Constitution and SCOTUS are hardly idealistic entities. They're what keeps the rabid emotionalism in check. They are why hundreds of thousands swarm to this country every year. They are the backbone of the greatest nation on the planet. God help us if we were subjected to the rule of law created by everyone with an attitude like yours.

As a civil society, we don't execute retards and nutcases for their crimes, and that's okay with me. I argue all the time that death is far too good for violent offenders anyway. But no need to turn this into a death penalty debate... we've got plenty of those hanging around here.

Now, if someone distrusts the assertion that he's retarded to begin with, that's a different argument entirely. But bad things happen when people disregard the Constitution.
 
I vote for a pre-execution cremation when his number gets punched.

Thanks for the info. I heard about it before but it never gets any easier. The fact that he get the DP THREE times says a LOT.

I agree that if he had a driver's license and a job (I read at PYSIH that he was a jobhopper and had SEVERAL during the months before the crime) that he isn't retarded. I also don't think that someone who plans like this is retarded.

Thanks for reminding us, Madea. It makes me really happy that I took the kid to the living Nativity tonight and to see Christmas lights on the way home. RIP Kristen in Angel's arms.
 
I'm speechless! This poor darling little girl!!!

Her poor family knowing her final moments.

I hope the leathal injection fails and he's left alert but completely unable to communicate but is fully able to feel the pain he's left in.

I think I'm going to be sick.
 
I hope the leathal injection fails and he's left alert but completely unable to communicate but is fully able to feel the pain he's left in.

Well, if they use the three drug cocktail that's not too terribly unlikely. I don't think this guy was truly what I would consider mentally handicapped. My hub's uncle is mentally handicapped and he cannot drive, cook or live on his own. He has never held a job and functions on the level of maybe a seven year old. I think if you can drive a car and obey the rules of the road you should also be able to understand that it is against the rules (so to speak) to murder someone else. I need more back story on this. Be back soon.

Apologies for my disjointed thoughts this am--- first cup of coffee. ....not that I ever make any fucking sense anyway...
 
Grell, whose IQ measures between 65 and 74, also claimed he was mentally disabled, but the Arizona Supreme Court upheld Jarrett's evaluation that he wasn't.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/137965

Grell was brought back before a jury because a new law stated that only a jury could determine the death penalty or rather, recommend it. Twice before he was sentenced to death by Judges!
Low IQ, yes, Mentally retarded, NO!
In her ruling Wednesday, Judge Barbara Jarrett of Maricopa County Superior Court found that although Grell has a low IQ, his "adaptive behavior" wasn’t impaired, meaning he functioned socially and with the independence expected for someone his age.

Jarrett said the only doctors to diagnose Grell as retarded were two hired by the defense.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/35781
 
Violent crime is at the lowest point in statistical history, so what's "anymore", exactly?

Everyone knows the justice system is flawed - in some respects, severely so. But I get the impression that you haven't even begun to consider the kind of hellfire abandoning the Constitution because some punishments aren't to your "liking" would unleash upon society.

The Constitution and SCOTUS are hardly idealistic entities. They're what keeps the rabid emotionalism in check. They are why hundreds of thousands swarm to this country every year. They are the backbone of the greatest nation on the planet. God help us if we were subjected to the rule of law created by everyone with an attitude like yours.

As a civil society, we don't execute retards and nutcases for their crimes, and that's okay with me. I argue all the time that death is far too good for violent offenders anyway. But no need to turn this into a death penalty debate... we've got plenty of those hanging around here.

Now, if someone distrusts the assertion that he's retarded to begin with, that's a different argument entirely. But bad things happen when people disregard the Constitution.


the admission of statistics on this topic is the implied permission and acceptance of the unpermittable and unacceptable. yeah percentages are lower, but who cares about that? it's just some on paper shit that people detached from the specific situations at hand use to make themselves feel better about a crumbling world. (not saying that about you personally) i hated that shit since math class, to me it's bunk, despite being rooted in reality. what it does is dehumanize humanity and is therefore insulting. plus the population is higher so that means these horrible things are actually happening to more people, and i dunno about you but i aint ready to pat society or any justice system on the back for that, we all can be greater than what we are, and those who prevent us from becoming so through evil actions are a liability. all through time, the purveyors of these evils go from generation to the next, while the torturous cycle repeats and strengthens. this is what has to be stopped. we don't do it good enough. in the meantime, the stream of innocent victims continues, and while people will feel bad, people feeling bad is never gonna make any of it go away, only in the deluded mind. we could hold all the rallies we want, donate all the money we want, write letters to stool pigeons and interns in washington, but there is literally no substitution for putting bullets between the eyes of those who through their actions, have dehumanized not only themselves, but innocent victims who deserved none of what they received. my response to the phrase "2 wrongs don't make a right" is "but it CAN."


this is more a philosophy discussion than anything else, because obviously i'm never gonna be benevolent dictator of america, i think i could help though. to me democracy in america is just the masses given some ass backwards mapquest directions so they never actually get to where they're trying to go. the media is complicit in this. i probably didn't make it clear enough though, the only way i'd be in favor of the constitution ACTUALLY being removed is if it is replaced by me and me only, and i'd passionately reinstate it as soon as some er, things, get taken care of, if ya know what i'm saying. a large chunk of the people who get threads on here for the things they did would be removed, their children given to those who would actually take care of them and nurture them the way they were meant to be upon creation, and help would be provided to those who are actually capable of being helped or rehabilitated.

there's a lot of people in the world, in business, in government, in positions to harm us, and they are free to do so. and we are free to sit there and take it because there ain't much else we can do about it through legal means. you can't just shoot the sons of bitches in the face because they have feelings and the ones that don't have feelings have armies, cops, judges, and laws they don't actually follow to protect themselves from us. i'm all about jurisprudence, fair trials, and blind justice, but if you think we actually have that you're lying to yourself. the court system straight up sucks ass. judges are crooked, lawyers will pull ANYTHING, CPS is ineffectual, and the cops and prosecutors only care about conviction regardless of whatever actually happened. we've got motherfuckers in jail for HAVING weed longer than people who rape and kill babies because of bullshit ass lawyer nonsense, much like what is being pulled here. i'm sorry but this man HAS TO DIE. if the court doesn't kill him, then someone else needs to do it. if he is not removed, i consider it a personal affront to decency and will treat it as such. i like the constitution but it hasnt been followed for a long time, powerful parties have circumvented it for years. to get back on the right path there needs to be a transitionary phase, one which i would not trust anyone other than myself to preside over. really i'm gonna talk about all this shit on my album.

if this dude is actually retarded and setting his baby on fire, it seems like he doesn't belong being alive anymore, whether he's retarded or not. wtf does IQ have to do with anything? it's just an excuse, that's all it is. it's not like he has anything to offer to the world anyway, especially if he is retarded and does things like this. he has a safety net to hide behind, thanks to lawyers and politicians using the constitution as toilet paper for at least the past 100 years. the fact is, this man destroyed the one positive thing he could ever bring into this world with his measly existence, and now he must be destroyed. we do enough of this and just MAYBE we'll reach the point where this will not be necessary. i bet statistics would drop a whole lot then too.

for the record, i'm libertarian as hellllllllll by default, because the battery jackson brand of freedom-for-the-good-people fascism will not become a reality at this time. i agree with most of what you said, but i just think we're off the mark as a population and need to get a little blood on our shoes to get where we're supposed to be. no innocent person should be punished either. ever. that's why the death penalty is tough.

just pleeease don't use the "civilized" defense of not removing those who have no business existing anymore. it's just another soft feelgood 'doing the right thing' illusion. this society is still a major stronghold of violence, death, and other assorted debauchery. not saying anywhere else is better, just don't act like we are. just because certain things over time have been deemed unacceptable and many entities have established new guises to do the same old shit DOESN'T make us civilized. it makes us lying to ourselves about what we as humans really are, just animals that know how to talk and do stuff with their hands and feet.

i'm glad to have had this discussion, but i gotta get some work done for once...i'll be back to check in later!


i will leave you all with SHAWN GRELL MUST DIE:crazy:

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Yes, he deserves to burn, imo. I don't care about his intelligence or lack there of, burning your baby alive is sadistic, cruel and evil. He knew what he was doing. I have zero sympathy for him.
 
I have two incredible, unbelievable updates to this thread that I just HAD to share because this story just haunts me so. For one, they reduced the fucktard's sentence : (

From Death Penalty to Life

And today, I just read on the Facebook page that is dedicated to keeping the little girls' memory alive, the mother has passed away in her sleep on Mother's Day. Good god, can you believe it??!

Remembering Kristen Salem
 
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I'm not trying to sound cold hearted, but I would guess a drug overdose, she is too young for much else. No one could blame her much, who could get past her baby being burned to death by the sperm donor?

Before you jump on me remember, in recovery myself with VERY little tolerance for sob stories/excuses to use, hers would get me though.
 
I'm not trying to sound cold hearted, but I would guess a drug overdose, she is too young for much else. No one could blame her much, who could get past her baby being burned to death by the sperm donor?

Before you jump on me remember, in recovery myself with VERY little tolerance for sob stories/excuses to use, hers would get me though.

You're probably right, but if I were to guess- I'd rather say it was a broken heart.
 
This is a horrible story. I'm from AZ & my daughter was 16 mos when it happened, it made me hug her a little closer. Her bio father took her for trips to the park, etc.....I was so scared he'd do something desperate to get out of child support.
I never saw this thread because I'd found the site about a year later.

His IQ should never have mattered. He knew to say he was taking her to see lights & he even drove back to be sure she was dead. He's evil, not stupid.

As for the mother, another twist to a tragic end. A murdered child hurts more than the child but everyone she touched.
 
Amber had more children....she's buried where my family is.

Salem, Amber Lee 31, of Phoenix, AZ, passed away May 12, 2013. She was born and educated in Phoenix. She is survived by her 3 children Triniti Gonzalez 8, Jesse Gonzalez 6, and Shyann Gonzalez 19 months, their father Pete Gonzalez, her brother Jason (Melissa) Salem, their 3 children and her mother Lee and step-father Ron Petruso. She touched the heart of many with her laughter and kind heart. We will miss her dearly. Service will be Wednesday 10:30am at Holy Cross Cemetery & Mortuary at 99th Ave/Thomas with internment to follow at Greenwood Cemetery 27th Ave/Van Buren where she will be buried with her daughter Kristen.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary-print.aspx?pid=164903693
 
What a hideous st ory to bump.

They ever settle on a motive? He worry his gf was gonna leave him...Or is it just plain ole evil/sociopath.
 
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