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how do you feel about this

DALTON, Georgia (AP) -- A former 911 operator was convicted Saturday of murdering her boyfriend by poisoning him with antifreeze.

Lynn Turner could face a death sentence in the 2001 killing of Randy Thompson, a Forsyth County firefighter and the father of her two children. The same jury that convicted her must decide whether to impose that sentence.

She is already serving a life sentence for the 1995 death of her husband, Glenn Turner, a Cobb County police officer. The murder charge in Thompson's death was filed after that 2004 conviction.

The trial went to the jury Saturday morning following closing arguments on Friday.

Turner, who had maintained her innocence in both cases, did not testify in either trial.

In closing arguments Friday, District Attorney Penny Penn said the motive in both cases was Turner's greed for the victims' life insurance money.

Lawyers for Turner, 38, rested their case earlier Friday after a defense toxicologist testified that while one of the victims showed signs of antifreeze poisoning the other did not, casting doubt on the prosecution theory that the deaths were similar.

Defense lawyers have argued there's no direct evidence proving murder.

Police didn't launch a criminal investigation of the deaths until a few months after Thompson died.

Prosecutors said tests on their bodies showed they were poisoned with ethylene glycol, a sweet but odorless chemical in antifreeze. During Turner's 2004 trial they suggested it could have been placed in foods such as Jell-O.

Penn said during her closing argument Friday that even though no one saw her do it, Turner was the last person with both men before they became ill and was the last person to give them anything to eat or drink.

Defense lawyer Vic Reynolds said the prosecution's evidence adds up to character assassination, not murder. "They can predict. They can assume, but that isn't the law," Reynolds said.

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Answer 1

Feel better now?

Answer 2

I think this is appalling. If it had been a man who had murdered his wife and girlfriend for insurance money there is no question in my mind that he would get the death penalty. But she's a little white woman who cried at her trial so she gets life. If juries and judges are going to continue to discriminate in death penalty cases on the basis of race, gender and economic class then capital punishment needs to be abolished. Us women have screamed for years about having equal rights but with that comes taking equal responsibility for our actions. A female teacher who screws her 14-year-old male student should get the same punishment as a male teacher who has sex with his 14-year-old female student. If I get a boob job, bleach my hair blond, go rob a bank and then when I get caught I'll sit in court and cry and get probation. A man (esp. a poor African-American man) would get 20 years in prison. Is that fair? It's ridiculous.

Answer 3

Maybe they needed killin'

Seriously.

Oh yeah, ditto the reporting---I am so tired of people cutting and pasting news articles and asking "duhhh, umm duhhh"

CARE!

Answer 4

It is a good justice system if you can afford an attorney.

Answer 5

In my opinion she earned herself an injection.