What do you think should happen to this woman?

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

This is Kelly Payne.

She looks pretty happy doesn't she? Celebrating some joyous occasion? Nope, this is her MUG SHOT.

What did she do, you ask?

She killed someone by running them over with her car while drunk FOR THE SECOND TIME IN 5 YEARS!

She spent 3 1/2 yrs in jail in Tennesse for a hit and run while drunk where she killed a 13 yr old girl.

She then decided to come "home" to Virginia. Lucky us

She racks up a laundry list of offenses and yet she remains on the road..

Then yesterday. She hits one car and runs. As she is running from that accident, a few miles down the street, she runs off the road completely, hitting and killing a 51 yr old man walking home from work after getting a bite to eat at a local restaurant.

So she runs from that. The news puts out a "be on the lookout" for her pickup truck. You would think that the woman would have enough sense to either leave the damn city or go home and don't come out for a good long time.. right?

Nah, she's too damn sloppy drunk and goes out the next morning - today - only a few miles from where she killed this man, now only 3 blocks from where I live, and starts off her morning hitting yet another car.

Luckily the police catch her.

I ask you. Look at that mug shot. Is that the picture of someone that even GIVES A DAMN that she has now taken 2 innocent lives from this earth because she can't say no to drinking?

What do you do to people like this?

She doesn't care. She doesn't give a flying leap about anything but her booze and doing what she wants. She can serve a couple of years in prison and I bet she will be right back out on the roads drinking and driving and will probably kill again.

Sure, you can take their license away - not going to stop her though. Look at the story below - she keeps right on whether she has a license or not.

So what can you do with a person like this? I don't want her seeing the light of day from beyond prison bars again. Because if she comes back out, the next person she might mow down could be me, my wife, another child.

If a person murdered 2 people it would be a capital offense. Well, she has murdered 2 people in my eyes. And looking at her mug shot makes me want her locked away for good even more.

What punishment would you think is appropriate for this woman?

From the local NBC Affiliate:

Hit and run suspect has deadly record; victim's family speaks out


By Christina White
From NBC12 News
Thursday, March 9, 2006



There’s shocking information about the woman who police say allegedly ran down a pedestrian in Richmond that has the victim’s family upset. Kelly Payne, 33, was arrested for hit and run, DUI and second-degree murder this week after killing a pedestrian on Midlothian Turnpike.

Victim's family speaks
The family of Kelly Payne's alleged victim is speaking out in the wake of the accident.

They describe Ashokkumar Patel, 51, as a loving man and a hard worker who was actually walking home from his job at the Days Inn on Midlothian Turnpike when he was hit.

Family members say they are especially devastated to hear that Payne has been convicted of a fatal hit and run accident before.

"That's really bad, it's just terrible," said the victim's nephew, Rinkal Amin. "She should get punished. We don't want other people to get killed like this."

Patel's sister, Mina Patel added: "It's hard. We are so sorry for him and we miss him and we love him."



Payne’s driving record is a laundry list of offenses, including multiple DUIs and she was convicted of the fatal hit-and-run of a 13 year old girl.

The news has prompted the victim's family and the group Mothers Against Drunk Driving to come forward.

There’s no fear in Payne's mug shot that may be because she has posed for the booking photos on several occasions. In 1991 her record shows arrests in Charlottesville for driving on a suspended license. Then in Orange County she was pulled over for doing more than 20 miles over the speed limit.

The third DUI arrest came in Albemarle county. That's when she was declared a habitual offender.

Most shocking, in 2001 Payne killed a 13-year-old girl during another hit and run accident in Tennessee. She completed a three-and-a-half year sentence last October.

Carter Hill with Mothers Against Drunk Driving says he's seen the same people commit these crimes over and over again and the law doesn't stop them.

“ Once the judge takes their drivers license, they just continue to drive, it's just a big reflection on how they feel about the law,” Hill said. “If you steal three cans of beer from the Seven-11, you go to the penitentiary, you drive drunk three times, you don't necessarily go to the penitentiary, in this state.”

He would like to see a “three DUIs and you go to jail” law, but the General Assembly has shot it down. He holds out hope there will be a law in the future keeping people like Kelly Payne off of Virginia's roads.

“ I think these things should happen before it gets to that point, either incarceration, education on why they shouldn't do it or treatment,” he said.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

This is horrible!!! Can't she be locked up?!!

 

[doxdogy]

She belongs under the jail, way way under the jail.

 

[JennyMominRI]

Prison,for life

 

[tiggersmom2]

I think she should be in a mandatory rehab until she is stock dry sober and will not touch anymore alcohol.....I don't care if it takes 5 years. Then she should serve jail time for the lives she took.

 

[RitaZ.]

 

[Bunchkin]

I can't say what I'd like to do to her.

 

[momof2inPA]

Life in prison, no opportunity for parole

 

[mylilnikita]

I think she should have a cell with Piper Roundtree and debate which one is dumber.

 

[Hannathy]

can you say death penalty or if not that life without parole.

 

[ducklite]

She chose to drink to excess, then chose to get behind the wheel of a car. She killed two people by doing so. Second degree murder seems appropriate, two consequetive sentences. She'll never see the light of day again.

Anne

 

[jenks0718]

She makes me sick to my stomach. I dont want her ever to be able to walk out of prison again. Lets see if she smiles about that

 

[mamacatnv]

I think she should be placed in the center of an arena and the victims families should be allowed to chase her down and run her over with their vehicles.

I am so sick of drunk drivers who skate, the laws need to be toughened up to zero tolerance.

MamaCatNV

 

[EthansMom]

Got a rope?

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

What she did was hideous enough in itself, but when I saw her mug shot I just wanted to smack that smile right off her face.

Apparently that is popular opinion too because Lauri called me on her way to work and said they were talking about it on a local morning talk show and the host said when he looked at her mug shot he was instantly disgusted and wanted to smack that smile right off her face too.

 

[minniecarousel]

unbelievable

prison for life

 

[hiwaygal]

This kind of stuff makes me SICK!!!!

She SHOULD be charged with FIRST degree murder...especially as this was a second (and third) offense and especially since she CONTINUES to CHOOSE to drink. IMO that's "malice aforethought" or something like that.

Taking away a license isn't going to stop most people like this (and I use the term "people" loosely for this "person")...she needs to be put away FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE, In SOLITARY confinement, in a VERY DARK cell. She should know what "death" is while still being alive to know.

But...my guess is, we'll see her mug shot again someday.

 

[mylilnikita]

3 and a half years spent for killing the 13 year old in Tennessee? That judge should go to prison with her!!! I didn't realze that was her mug shot, she is full of sass, let's see how sassy she is when she is another prisoner's :::::::: hope her trial is on court t.v.

 

[tmt martins]

Well I for one don't blame JUST her Every Judge ,Lawyer,and anyone else that let her back on OUR streets need to be held responsible.

This is the problem when we become to politically correct and start giving criminals more rights then victoms.

When you know the laws and decide not to follow them you should have NO rights to the laws that fit your needs.If you start making it a hardship to be in jail (5 to a cell,no outside contact) you would see people take other paths in life.

As for her smile your right she looks like she is waiting to be released again just to go out tonight. WHY WOULDN"T SHE BE SMILING AAAHHHHGGG

 

[ilovepcot]

The crimes this woman committed were outrageous in and of themselves, but when you see her "snarky" mug shot.... that invokes rage! Our laws need to change.