My Baby Sister Lisa Did a Terrible Thing. We Shouldn't Kill Her For It.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

Content warning for child abuse, including sexual abuse.

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a34716810/lisa-montgomery-death-row-execution-trump/

It was a drizzly morning in Ogden, Kansas. I was eight years old, living in a trailer park with my abusive step-mom Judy who, after screaming on the phone for what seemed like an hour, was now squatting down in front of me. “Well,” she hissed in my face, “they’re coming to take you away, hope you’re happy.”

I was. In fact, I’d never been happier. But when two child protective services workers knocked on our front door later that day, my heart sank to my stomach. I was finally going into foster care, but Lisa, my little sister and best friend, was staying behind. She was four years younger than me, with wispy hair, and a sweet demeanor. When I turned back to take one last look of her, there was terror in her bright green eyes.

That was 1969. I didn’t see Lisa again until 2007, when I testified at her sentencing hearing for brutally murdering a pregnant woman named Bobbie Jo Stinnett; she cut the baby out of Stinnett’s belly with a knife. On the stand, Lisa looked just as scared as the day I left her 36 years ago.

My sister has been sentenced to die for her crime. If executed, she will become the first woman to be federally executed in the U.S. in 70 years. I will always love her, but what she did was the most awful thing a person can do. Lisa should spend the rest of her life in prison, no doubt, but she shouldn’t have to die. Because maybe if she hadn’t been failed by the people she needed most in society, she could have been part of it.

[Me.]

1. God, What A Heartbreaking Story

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. May I suggest you edit the title of your post and just place quote marks on it

That way before anyone even opens it, it is clear you are quoting and not speaking.

And yes, what a horrific story.

Greatest country in the world, and all that

[MyOwnPeace]

3. The "DEATH PENALTY" is wrong..........

It should NOT be OUR choice as to who lives and who dies.

As SO many love to go to the 10 Commandments, the "biggie" here is "THOU SHALT NOT KILL."

Please note that it does not say: "Thou shalt not kill - unless you're pissed off at them."

We have SO many flaws, weaknesses, wrong-doings in our society - it does no good to kill somebody just because we think we're going to "make things better" or "give somebody closure."

We are correct to remove somebody from society if they are a harm to the rest. It should NOT be our right to kill them.

[Hestia]

5. It's actually a mis-quote from Greek - Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder

really a different context. It was changed by early church to keep the hoi polli under their thumb

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Afternoon kick.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Bedtime kick. Don't read if you're prone to nightmares.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. She doesn't mention that Lisa was also abused

by her first two husbands and had head injuries.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Yep. Her entire life was pain.