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In reply to the discussion: US carries out its 1st execution of female inmate since 1953 [View all]ADK
(83 posts)11. But it was premeditated.
She planned her crime and researched the Caesarian procedure in advance. The woman clearly had some mental health issues, but her forethought suggests that she had the mental capacity to understand what she was doing and to discern right from wrong. Her crime also was unbearably cruel. I dont know about her mental state at the time of execution.
While Im opposed to the death penalty as a general matter because the justice system has proven itself to be imperfect and fallible, there certainly are some crimes that are just so heinous that the perpetrator should lose the right to live among us. This may be one of them. But the easy cases where guilt is undisputed shouldnt give rise to the rule.
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There was no doubt that this woman cut the fetus from her victim's womb committing a double murder
Cozmo
Jan 2021
#25
You're not considering the whole story. There was no justice served last night, authorities ...
marble falls
Jan 2021
#20
Do you seriously believe that this woman can be helped while serving a life sentence in our prisons?
Cozmo
Jan 2021
#26
There's no salvage here. But surely you aren't suggesting that because she is "broken" ...
marble falls
Jan 2021
#37
And she was raped from three years old by father, step-father, family, family friends ...
marble falls
Jan 2021
#21
The only thing most of these angry pro-death penalty project in their anger is "blood lust".
marble falls
Jan 2021
#39
Did you look past the crime? What do you make of her brutized life? No one ever went to jail.
marble falls
Jan 2021
#28
This info is wrong. Karla Faye Tucker on 2/4/98 was executed by TX when Bush refused to
in2herbs
Jan 2021
#15