Killing For Love And Facing Death Row
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- In April 2013, 18-year-old Shawn Ford Jr was charged with killing his girlfriend's parents with a sledgehammer. Now he is on trial for his life and a jury of 12 ordinary people must decide whether he should live or die.
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The title completely is click bait. The first 30 seconds I felt myself feeling bad for this young man. Until I realized he stabbed and almost murdered his GF & then bludgeoned her father and mother to death. What a horrible person.
@elfie Death by sledgehammer
People like that should me exterminated.
@Joseph Nickell Calm urself
@Joseph Nickell R u being serious?
Joseph Nickell now that’s just racist
How is this killing for love?
This is killing for control, a clear example of abuse. He didn't get what he wanted so he attacked his girlfriend, he didn't get what he wanted again so he plotted and killed her parents.
You are sympathizing with a premeditated murderer and romanticising abuse. This is exactly the type of crime the death penatly is in place for, whether you agree with it or not.
Check yourselves.
xMissTwistedx Agree!
Well said 👍
'Killing for love' please change the title. A mentally ill person tried killing his girlfriend and then successfully killed her parents, love is probably the furthest possible emotion you could apply to the situation. Is there more to the story? Why is the defense and everyone siding with him it seems odd, usually when someone tries/commits mass murder you wouldn't get people so openly siding.
Scarlet Peoni thank you.
Where in this video was it said that he was mentally ill?
i guess if you commit a crime you're mentally ill.....love can make anyone do anything....including this.
please don’t equate mental illness to violent crimes like this, it stigmatizes and demonizes those who actually have mental illnesses
+alex time low thank you most mentally ill are scared of their own shadow 99 percent of the time they commit suicide
I don’t understand how after he stabbed the girlfriend how was he not put in jail ?
10 days later he go over to the house and beat them to death while one of his friends watched only to rob them and take the couples car ; i don’t feel bad at all
NeishMarie Hodge I just looked up the case, The gf said it was someone else who beat her & by chance the bf said it was the same person. Also the girl ended up in jail too because after her parents died she got some inheritance and she spent that to buy cocain in bulk with a new bf to distribute. Honestly this girl didn’t deserve these kind of parents.
Abraham Rivera just cuz she did drugs is straight bullshit drugs arent bad or should we start putting everyone using sugar caffeine etc too in prison the only danger of ilegal drugs is that u can get drugs with dangerous cutting agents or research chemicals just look up the real reason for this drug war that the goverment has lost if u would try to inform yourself open minded u will find the truth.
Abraham Rivera they should legalize all well researched drugs to stop this insane nonesense, with proper education about safer use etc drugs would become really safe, that would even make new workplaces, alot of tax for the goverment, way less deaths, way less crime, way less infections and much more.
Pesky Echo you have no valid points, why ilegal drugs should stay ilegal, so u just say shut up because you can t handle the truth, thats just pathetic.
@@abrahamrivera6298 sometimes when you're greiving you make stupid decisions. I wouldnt say she didnt deserve her parents.
I feel the title is completely misleading. This isn't some tragic love story, this is a young guy with very severe anger issues and problems. Of course the parents told him not to see her after what he did!!
However, I am not for the death penalty. I think a life in prison without any chance of parole is the real punishment and someone can actually learn from (or even just realize) their past and their terrible crimes.
mafkaast that is the way they show love you bigot! check your privilege!
It is costly though I think im a stage in my life that i agree for the most part. Death penalty should be saved for mass murderers, terrorists and the like.
mafkaast G without that money to feed them just kfc left over and other fast food, since it was a no reason kill case
he didn't beat her up someone else did
no my tax dollars death penalty is cheaper. Im pro DP ONLY is all evidence points that he's guilty which he was
The on this is insane. Why on earth do you want us (the viewers) to feel sorry for this monster!!?
IT's the BBC, enough said.
Because he's just 18
@@bubbiesdad I don't believe in the death penalty unless it's for someone who killed 4 or more people
So someone who kills both your parents deserves to breath air. Live another day. Get visits from family or friends. Gets to eat everyday. Make phone calls. And maybe be released?
@@JM-qr8qz What will killing him accomplish? Somebody like this should rot in prison for the rest of their days but I don't think they should die.
Fact: the murder of her parents was premeditated. There is no reason to let him keep on living.
This is not a true statement. If u want the truth ask me!
In fact he should live.....NO ONE deserves to die doesn't matter what they did every ones life is worth something. Whats better is putting him in prison for life at least he will die in prison but think about the family how they are gonna feel I know I would HATE the court if they put one of my family members on death row
You know I’m not always for the death penalty, I think just in serious situations, and I truly believe this is one of them.
Yes it is
Once you deny someone else’s right to life you lose your own simple as that
Which in turns leads to the following question: What gives the community the right to take someones else live after the other being killed someone.
Your making two crimes, you don’t punish with a crime
@@sultanmohammed2553 try to imagine the ones he beat to death with a hammer are ur parents then stfu
What if it was by accident? Should you still die? What if it was self defence? should you still die?
Ik that intentional murder should result in measures like this but not always
As a Black woman i can admit I’m so very confused. I don’t feel that this was racist at all. He was tried and convicted fairly. My heart goes out to the ppl that lost their life for no normal reason. They simply were protecting their child period. I would have shut down his access to my child to after he damn near killed her. How his mom can say please spare his life, I just wanna visit my child. I have no support of her foolishness. He beat those ppl like they were a animal&took their lives. Y should his be spared? They visit their loved ones at a cemetery, her son is alive and well. How is this fair at all. Death row is almost a gift bc he don’t have to live and endure the pain his ass caused a family. Miss me with the “ judging mess, he has mental problems bullshit. He wasn’t mentally ill he was a hard, cold, criminal. It’s so unfair to the ppl that lost their lives so viciously. Praying for their souls and pray their daughter don’t choose her man side . He killed her parents bc they tried to keep her safe. God have mercy on their soul.
Any mother would beg for their child's life, regardless of the horrific crimes they committed.
I understand where you're coming from, though.
R.I.P. to the victim's family. Such a tragedy 🙏
Oh hell no! Execute!
Overkill much, why try to save him, you take someone elses life, you lose yours
I want to fight
He got paid to try to sway the case in Shawn’s favor
Jappy Boi eye for an eye would make the whole world go blind
Tim O'Sullivan that doesn’t make it wrong idiot lmfao
Jappy Boi I don't believe that... kill for a kill is wrong.
I do agree that he should get the death penalty but I also feel like letting him rot in prison is even worse torture
Morgan Childress exactly. I’ve always been really torn over that, death just seems way too easy, they should be made to face the consequences and I feel death is taking the easy way out. I’d always considered what would happen if they started giving out punishments based on what exactly the offender did; like if they murder someone a certain way, it’d be a lot more worrisome id think to know if you get caught you got coming to you exactly what you do to your victim. But that could never happen.
Morgan Childress Organs taken,
Justice is one thing, torture is another. You are shit.
Morgan Childress death is worse. Nobody rots on prison these days.
Lawstidentity Harvest their organs, when they kill.
Sad?? Lol I think it was a happy ending if you tell me, he got what he deserve.
Also a happy ending for the taxpayers, who won't pay to keep him alive once he's fried.
Fridaahh EnvyMyMind Happy ending????? 3 people are dead! There's nothing happy about that. He killed her parents with a sledgehammer! I don't see where "happy" fits in that scenario.
Summer so if someone kills your family you rather them to get 10 years in jail then sentence to death?? That's what I meant by happy ending 😑
Fridaahh EnvyMyMind 10 years? No he most definitely would have gotten life. I don't feel bad for him, I feel bad for his parents who lost their son.
He shouldve got life instead killing him wont bring her parent's back
I thought this was a video of homeboy killin someone who raped his lady then went to jail for it. Change the title
I just watched this episode and one of the jurors said something that was very odd, considering that she was contemplating a death sentence. It was like she wasn't sure about the death penalty but voted yes because "some of the others wouldn't had left the room without it". It just sounded like she was kind of forced to vote yes. So the peer pressure exists there too..
I'm just glad we have no death penalty here in Finland. I realize that Shawn's crime was horrible but I couldn't participate in a murder. And that's what death penalty is, it's another murder that doesn't make anything right.
Why should this human being live? It's justice actually. I don't want a reply. You might think differently if it was your family that was victimised, if it was your mother and father that were murdered in this way.
@aaronmckechnie4467
It's not about him living or "deserving" to live.
Murder is murder, even when it's committed by the state as part of a criminal sentence.
No one should be allowed the right to decide when someone else dies. That's the issue.
Naw wtf... 19 times? Do what you wish with him.... I feel no way
wow. only 18. your life has hardly begun and now it is ending.
But he probably can enjoy another 10 years of life in his cell. He can live.
Be careful of the friend requests you accept on Facebook. You don't know what you are allowing in your home. These beautiful, innocent parents were simply trying to help and extend love to their teenage daughter. They lost their lives because she didn't want to listen. Young ladies... Listen to your parents. They are not out to harm you or kill you. Their job is to make sure they set boundaries so that you can stay alive from the monsters out here.
Parents don't give your children too much freedom at such a young age.... They are too young to date and have that much freedom. Don't try to be their friend.. Be their parent. It's the teenagers job to be rebellious and mad...but it is the parents job to discipline them and keep them alive.
What exactly was his motive to kill her parnets?
Because they wouldn't let him see their daughter after he attacked her
Understandable. Chain the excuse for a man up & let the other family members beat him to death slowly with sledgehammers! An eye for an eye & all that.
PhantomAudio83 Then they would be just as bad as him and it would be within reason to charge them with the death penalty. An eye for an eye doesn't work in court, just because he committed a horrible crime, that doesn't mean they are within their right to do the same thing to him.
I see your point.
So who got dead
serves him right, he don't deserved freedom
Mikey Mouse stupidly...
he deserves everything he got. he was cold and calculating and did not spare their life
This is very sad oh my word how could one do such a thing 😯😯...
DeeDee Nicole 123 i'm about to do the same to my girlfriend.
poker face imaginary gf don't count
Is Az at least I warned:)
poker face lol
I'm usually anti-Death Penalty.
NOT IN *THIS CASE* .
I agree! This boy got exactly what he deserved and nobody feels sorry for him! Something was seriously wrong with this boy! Omg!
the real death sentence is life in prison without the possibility of parole!
Timlin Alisandro The process for the needle is costly in the US. It's cheaper to do life.
Timlin Alisandro but he would get a easy way out death penalty is painless he should get life so he gets tourtured remember jail is not a nice place
Ic3y Wrist death row is worse because your alone alot and never know when your gonna die.
Monster!
Exactly! He killed two innocent people screw him!
This is like the worst conversation ever.
No.
Marisa GMOL but does that mean he deserves to die
@Aaliyah Graham KILLING 1 MAKES YOU A MONSTER
I don’t know what the hell he crying for. Was you crying like that when you took their life’s
he doesn't want to die? neither did that girls parents. sucks to suck dude make better choices in your next life
J B where he's headed there ain't gonna be anything but pain and suffering
He murdered a family with an sledge hammer & people really want to save this dudes life now? Hell no. Treat other the way you wanna be treated. It goes both ways. Rip
I really hate to say this, but it seems like dating black men is accepting a life of stress and violence, pain and infidelity. I really hope I’m just being ignorant about the black communities men. But I’m pretty convinced that is the case.
Unfortunately I get where you are coming from. There are good black men but alot of them suffer from severe mental health issues and that needs to be fixed first so they go into a relationship healed and not mentally fragile as this murderer was. You've got to be really messed up to beat up your gf and then have quite some time between that to still kill her parents. It shows that he continues to build up that rage and to be hondst I don't think someone like that should be free again. If he was just a tiny bit sane he would have layed low after his gf was in the hospital.
Nias PurposeASMR no, mental illness does not discriminate. Maybe that’s YOUR experience but there’s wonderful people in every race.
I agree. Dating black men comes with a lot of issues. Very toxic, hypermasculine creatures.
Please don’t add to the racist stereotypical narrative about Black men. The Black men in my life are hard working, respectable, loving men. Murderers and abusers come in all colors, unfortunately. Dating TOXIC men whatever their color is accepting a life of stress and violence, pain and infidelity. You don’t know or have never seen on TV, movies, politics, books etc. a representation of a good Black man? Or white men who murder or inflict violence?
Yup
Imagine thinking justice and “resting in peace now” comes from killing another human. It’s just hateful vengeance.
Killing someone you love that’s not what you call a love.
She's Beautiful this is so sad I hope she gets justice ❤️❤️❤️
Yeah, I don’t feel sorry for this one... 💅🏾
Sick individual!
As of yesterday there was 2 mass shootings in the U.S, i think it has a lot to do with the gun culture but its been hundreds of life times to get it to where it is today! Im canadian from british columbia and we don't have guns like the states and we also don't have the mass shootings either…..we've had a few but nothing remotely close! It hurts my heart for america but i think it will take years and years to stop these mass shootings!
To me it seems like the columbine shooting was the catalyst!!!
My prayers and deepest sympathy to all affected by these 250 tragedies!
Aug 2019
Where's the full story
ashimadaniel31 on BBC iPlayer
Kim Benny Its only for the UK I live in the US
ashimadaniel31 use a vpn sis
Naomi Shofoluwe What's a vpn?
ashimadaniel31 it’s a type of app you download and it changes your internet location, basically it fools apps into thinking you’re in the same country so you can access those features. Search VPN on Apple store or android and just download the free ones. Then change it to UK.
Remember to pray for his mother too... she lost her son that day. God bless everybody in this horrible situation. May God have mercy on his soul.
why? she raised that violent trashbag!
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If Chelsea wouldn’t lied to the police by saying someone else almost killer her, not Shawn, he’d of been in jail for attempted murder, and that poor mom and dad would Still be alive! Now she’s in prison for spending her inheritance and being involved in drug trafficking, and her poor baby is in foster care. Makes you think twice about adoption!
Just stop.
This man is lucky he's in prison.
Wrong. What's not normal is to eschew justice & refuse to punish murder appropriately.
:( the parents were just trying to save their daughter as any parent would. God I can't imagine what Chelsea is feeling. I don't HAVE any sympathy for that possessed ass boy! .
Why would someone so young do something so wicked honestly .At 18 I was thinking about writing my crush a letter with dedications not killing people
Justice prevails!
Hitting someone with a sledgehammer is not in our nature .
Some death penalty situation are uncalled for and very sad honestly; but this is not one of those he deserves it and nothing less
As of August 1, 2020, 2,478 executions have been carried out between 1950 and 2020, including 1,522 since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. In addition, 260 convicts died of natural causes or by committing suicide on death row , 792 have had their sentences commuted, have been pardoned or exonerated, 162 are awaiting a new trial following the temporary quashing of their sentences.
The death penalty is grossly animalistic way of dealing with a problem like this
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He brutally killed them with a sledgehammer and he stabbed his girlfriend and fractured her skull because she didn't want to have sex with him. I'm usually not an advocate for the death penalty, but he deserves nothing but death. He isn't even worth torturing with life time imprisonment. Why should we be humane to somebody who is like a wild animal? Because we are better than them? Feeling superior won't change a thing
After millions of years of cellular evolution how did we come to this?
I AM RELATED TO THEM!!!! THEY WERE THE BEST AUNT AND UNCLES I COULD EVER ASK FOR!!! THE GIRL TALKING IN THE VERY BEGINNING IS ALSO MY OTHER AUNT!!! ♥️
mhm
May they RIP sad story
Sorry for your loss. This was horrific.
Really,really one of those "how can you do that to another human being" crimes. I can't get my head around how you could do such a thing. 😓😓😓
Jamie Ball Jnr It’s really sad
Ummm why you trying to save his life when he took others peoples? Hell has a place with his name on it .RIP to the family 🌹
You need to start asking the parents of the murderers why their children are angry
What ever happened to hanging people for committing heinous crimes...
🙁wow . Amazing how can someone be obsessed with someone to the point of killing ... damn I guess love make you crazy
Wow. Just wow
2:39 lost it with lawyers 😭😭😂😂
He shouldn't get to see his family. Shouldn't be able to contact them. He should live like he's dead.
My empathy does not extend to violent psychopaths. They don't qualify. They're undeserving. Unworthy. Beneath me.
But what was the motive for murder?
Emma Hales Did you not watch the video? After he beat the shit out of his girlfriend her parents banned him from seeing her in hospital. So he killed them.
Emma Hales Anger, revenge. Because her parents wouldn't let him come see her when she was in the hospital.
What is your question?
T Sommers Understandable, parents did the right thing. Nobody would let their kids assailant near them, specially after he stabbed her over a stupid argument.
I seen this on a show & they said that Chelsea was in the hospital asking her mom if she can use phone..& she was calling shawn why didn't she alert her parents about what he did to her?? I bet she wished she said something
Different cultures and races should never adopt a child of the opposite.
They lose their sense of who they are.
That woman clearly knows nothing of human nature if she doesn’t think killing is apart of our nature.
Eye for a eye.. sad to see yet another guy on death row. Was he taking something hit them 17 times. Big question is, why wasnt he arrested when he beat up his g.f up?
Jay London she wouldn't tell the police who did it!
He brutally murdered two people and then people are worried about the death penalty.
He deserves it he was out of control and would have kept on it was no reason for what he did period!!
What a monster! How could you do that to her and her parents?
Sick, killed them bc they were keeping him away after almost killing his girlfriend. DR is we're he should be. Then straight to Hell.
2 murders and an attempted murder absolutely warrants the death penalty because there is no rehabilitation or mitigation from that. Can’t help but think it’s a deterrent as well when you look at the state British cities are in with crime.
He looks like kevin hart and meek mill fused together
Those poor guys. What a nightmare to discover the bodies.
If a white guy did this 10 years at most
Monkey D. Luffy
You're full of shit.
R u dumb? This man killed two people white guys get death for killing one. Actually in Indiana 4 white kids went to rob the house and they didn’t know the owner was in there and he killed one of the 4 teens and guess who got charged with murder the teenage boys and got life. When they didn’t even have a gun on them or kill their friend the owner did.
i remember watching the story of this on the i.d. channel i think it was.. very intriguing😳😥
How sick do you have to be to sentence an 18 year old to death
BonJoviworstbandever tbh 18 years old today are pretty much grown up and should make rational decisions. He deserves what he got, murdering people in such a brutal way for no big deal is unacceptable
I have a little cough other than that i feel fine.
these things will always happen, the question is how we respond as a society.
BonJoviworstbandever what do you suggest then? How should we react as society?
you can say that from the screen hen its not your wife and children who are the victims. you must be very selfish where you can only see things from your perspective.
We all get to see how gangster you really are when you here your verdict
People in the comment section the real monsters
just like you, have a nice day!
Bleeding heart spotted having sympathy for the monster instead of the victim.
Chief XVI
The ones supporting him are indeed monsters.
In my opinion, the first part of the title is semantically incorrect in this context.
It's interesting I never saw a tear in his mother's eyes ... This was one sick case of power and control smh
Was he that upset when he took their lives 🤷♀️🤦♀️. I don’t really believe in the death penalty but wow. That was horrible they died because they didn’t want their daughter to be beaten
She was in on it too. She inherited a lot of money because of the murders.
This is Sad 😞...Why is the lawyer shocked ? I mean just look at the evidence. Life wasted smh 🤦🏾♀️
WHERE IS THE FULL DOCUMENT BECAUSE THERE IS MORE TO THIS STORY IT IS HARD TO NARROW DOWN TO 3:30 MINS....
Totally not cool 🤦🏽♂️ he should have handled it the grown mens way and not out of anger like that
JUGGG tv I swear to god. Life is fucked up
So he stabs their daughter. Then attacks her parents with a sledgehammer when they won't let him see her. I fail to see how that qualifies as love whatsoever.
maybe the font would be a readable color next time?
How sad for his family to not be able to talk to him 🙄 Where was that empathy when he killed 2 people? What about the pain he caused them? If you’re going to kill people, you don’t get to be upset when the same is visited on you.
I don’t believe in the death penalty. The state should not be killing people.
i don't see how this is "killing for love". Violent kid puts his girlfriend in the hospital with STAB WOUNDS TO THE HEAD after apparently trying to kill her. Apparently didn't go to prison, so her parents tell him to keep away...so he murders them both.
Save yourself the drama and stress by staying single
Please tell me those pictures of her injured sre fake. That is way too graphic BBC3! NOOO!
Just a simple advice for men NEVER SACRIFICE ANYTHING FOR A WOMAN YOU WILL END UP IN MISERY.
Why should she get to keep her son when another woman lost HER CHILD and husband in such a violent way because of HER SON?
I see nothing wrong with this verdict
Why the lawyer was so distraught? How can you be that cold?
He is a sick human being. Their families will never see them again. He did this out of revenge walking from Akron to New Franklin. He knew what he was doing and he shouldn't be breathing right now!
Death?? Live longer than most of us. Appeals.
Save his life for what??????🤦♀️
He's a monster
Yes and I believe his mother knew he was a monster. What a P.O.S he and his mamma was!
And people still want to say that the death penalty is unconstitutional. Life in jail is an insult for this crime.
How was he not arrested for beating on their daughter , and whatever happened to her after all of this ?