Should a woman NOT get the death penalty for 1st degree murder just because she's a female and has kids?

Question

Whereas, in similar circumstances, a male who also has kids probably WILL get the death penalty? A woman in my area has been convicted of a second murder while using the same method - antifreeze poisoning in the victim's food - that she used in the first murder. The jury heard an emotional appeal from her mother, and then gave her life imprisonment without parole. Both murder victims were men, of whom one was the father of her two children. The other one was her BF. Both had large life insurance policies of which she was the beneficiary. This, according to the prosecution, was her motive.

Answer 1

no one should get the death penalty

Answer 2

The death penalty is arbitrarily applied in the United States. Examples: the one you pointed out, the fact that the killer of a white person is twice as likely to face the death penalty than the killer of a non white victim. And, of course, the death penalty applies not to the "worst of the worst" but to those with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was executed or even sentenced to death???

Besides this, 48 states now have life without parole on the books. It means what it says and at a fraction of the cost of the death penatly.

Answer 3

Justice is suppose to be blinded while holding the scales.Now to answer your question life without parole and her kids are the reason makes no sense. Why,cause she will never have custody of them and they will be raised by someone else. Put her to death, and someone will still be raising her kids.She intentially took the lives of 2 people for monetary gain. That denotes premeditated murder. Had I been on the jury or with the prosecutor or it was my relative she killed this very painful debilitating way, well then the electric chair is too good for her,so an injection of antifreeze and rat poison would be the way to put her to death. Let the Doctor say no heartbeat detected and then wheel her into a room and let the poisons take her after a couple days. Very painful and slowly

Answer 4

No not to me. Thats just being plain sexist if you wont give the death penalty to a female and you would to a male.
They say that she is the mother of kids. Well the father maybe have kids too.
If you're going to not give the death penalty because someone has kids... they seriously should make it so both sex have the same deal.

Answer 5

if Death penalty is in place, men AND women should be applied the same penalty if "applicable". Women are fighting for equality of rights, ... well: that's part of the package! I can't see any reason why it should be applied differently.

Answer 6

First of all how was that 2nd degree murder sounds more like first degree. But, my answer to the question is this, if women want equal rights across the board, then a court of law shouldn't see gender.

Answer 7

Justice needs to be consistently applied, or it is a sham and a mockery. "Mother" knew the crime entailed time. She wasn't born in the morning and committed the crime that night. She took a toss of the Devil's dice, and lost. Bigtime.

I despise the practice of having criminals cry on the witness stand to generate pity for their pitiless souls. Likewise, lawyers rationales are getting stupider every day. They don't fool me.

Answer 8

Nowadays, it doesn't matter if it is a male or female. I think it should be equal, because if you committed the crime you should be punished just like anybody else would be, disregarding male or female.

If you end someone else life short, yours should be ended as well.

Answer 9

If she can commit the same crime a man can, she should suffer the same penalty a male can.

Answer 10

Lynn Turner killed two people. A cop and a fireman. Men who laid their lives on the line to save HER ugly behind, and she turned around and killed them. She doesn't deserve to live.

Answer 11

I agree no one should get the death penalty, they should just rot in jail.