I say we give Joseph Smith all the cocaine and herion his body can possibly take - and then just a little bit more...

Carlie Brucia's Killer Pleads for His Life
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

SARASOTA, Fla. — A weeping Joseph Smith apologized Tuesday for the abduction, rape and murder of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia two years ago, telling a judge he had taken large amounts of cocaine and heroin that day in hopes of killing himself.

Carlie's friends and family members talked of their desperation and grief.

"Carlie's future and life have been stolen from her and from her family," her aunt Lori Brucia read on behalf of the girl's grandmother, Andrea Brucia. "We will never know her as a teenager. Our family is forever broken. Our nightmares about what you've done to her — our hearts will never heal."