a monitor is an output device because you cannot give the computer any commands with it, like you can with mice and keyboards. There is one contingency, however. If you have a touch-screen monitor, then it is an input device, because you are interacting with the computer with it.
Scott Peterson was charged with the murder of his pregnant wife Laci Denise Peterson and their unborn son Conner Peterson who disappeared sometime between Dec. 23 and Dec. 24, 2002. The badly decomposed remains of Laci Peterson and the couple's fetus washed ashore in April 2003, not far from where Peterson said he went on a solo fishing trip the day she vanished.
Peteron's easy life behind bars: Scott Peterson is living in what has been described as an 'exclusive' and 'cushy' part of San Quentin prison in California. Above, photos of the man who killed his 8-months-pregnant wife in jail last year. Getting the best of a bad situation: Peterson allegedly lives in a single cell. Above, a general view of the 163-year-old San Quentin prison, which houses the largest death row population of any prison in the country.