Baby Killer Gets Death Penalty, Again

A Lexington County, S.C. man who savagely murdered his four-month old daughter in 2001 was re-sentenced to death today by a Circuit Court judge – two years after South Carolina’s left-leaning Supreme Court threw out his previous capital conviction due to an “overly zealous” closing argument made by the local solicitor.

In his 2003 trial, Clinton Robert Northcutt of Red Bank, S.C. had asked the jury to sentence him to death for the murder of his daughter – and they obliged.

That sentence was tossed by the S.C. Supreme Court in 2007, however, which meant that everybody affected by this tragedy had to gather together today in Lexington County courthouse and relive it all over again.

The result?

S.C. Circuit Court Judge James Williams reimposed the sentence, telling Northcutt he was “undeserving of mercy.”

And he is – at least in this life.

The gruesome details of Northcutt’s murder of his fourth-month-old daughter, Breanna, truly are too awful to repeat – which is why we’re not going to repeat them.

We’ve never been an “if it bleeds, it leads” sort of news outfit, anyway, and even if we were this was a four-month-old girl, people.

Let’s just say that when we used the term “savagely murdered” earlier, it wasn’t hyperbole.

Hopefully, this time the S.C. Supreme Court will let justice be done …

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