Excusing murder and killing her are two different things!!! HELLO??!!
I am not for killing a woman for telling some guy who is too stupid to not listen to a woman with a low IQ to kill her husband and step-son. Put her in jail. Fine.
She organized the murder of two innocent people. So nice of you to allow the the Commonwealth of Virginia to put her in jail.
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I don't know the particulars in this case, so I don't have a strong opinion either way. However, I don't like how arbitrary our executions seem to be. Many people are found guilty of killing and are not executed. If the criteria for execution requires particularly aggravating circumstances, I'm not sure what they are here. I've seen numerous cases similar to this where the offender was not executed (IQ notwithstanding).
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Hey, I'm not really for the death penalty. That's my opinion.
Fine. But the law is clear and she deserved the death penalty according to the law of the Commonwealth of Virginia so acting as if she didn't seems silly to me. Much props to my fellow Regent Law Alum, Governor McDonnell, for not staying the execution.
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I don't know the particulars in this case, so I don't have a strong opinion either way. However, I don't like how arbitrary our executions seem to be. Many people are found guilty of killing and are not executed. If the criteria for execution requires particularly aggravating circumstances, I'm not sure what they are here. I've seen numerous cases similar to this where the offender was not executed (IQ notwithstanding).
It depends on the jury or the judge and the situation. Multiple murders would be my guess along with the fact that she had them killed not because she was angry or hurt but because she wanted the insurance money.
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Fine. But the law is clear and she deserved the death penalty according to the law of the Commonwealth of Virginia so acting as if she didn't seems silly to me. Much props to my fellow Regent Law Alum, Governor McDonnell, for not staying the execution.
That's really sad to me. The sabbath was not made for man, but man for the sabbath.
Laws are for the good of man and not for his detriment. Keeping this woman in jail would likely have hurt no one. It probably would have even saved the state money.
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That's really sad to me. The sabbath was not made for man, but man for the sabbath.
Laws are for the good of man and not for his detriment. Keeping this woman in jail would likely have hurt no one. It probably would have even saved the state money.
Huh? It wouldn't have saved money and she DESERVED the death penalty. She earned it. You seriously need to consider the question "why do we punish?" I recommend some C.S. Lewis on the subject of why we punish.
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I'm just saying that in similar cases (particularly when the defendant pleads guilty) I regularly see them get life. As a matter of fact, it often seems that pleading guilty is a contributing factor and the life sentence is part of the plea deal.
Either way, I'm not as huge of a fan of the death penalty because of all the DNA exonerations of so many duly convicted death row inmates...but that's another conversation.
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CC1, you always seem to vote like this. Maybe your sig line should read "Kill da bums!!!".
I calls em like I seez em! Thanks for responding to my post. Until I got to your post it was pretty discouraging seeing that not a single person responded to it. I guess I have lost my posting touch!
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Kind of like David killed men, women, and children and sawed people in two.
Hey, if you're comfortable with that, you da man.
The law distinguishes between murder and justice (prescribed punishments that included stoning to death) and never says those that meted out that punishment were guilty of murder
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