The sentence is death, not poked with a needle. The system got this one right up to that point, it wasn’t a complicated case. The system could still do better and needs to change, but she really doesn’t need to be the one who goes free because of that.
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lolrightythen@lemmy.world 8 hours agoThats so fucked up. Does she walk free after this? They already handed out the punishment twice.
Lol, who am I kidding. I know how the US legal system works
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lime_red@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The request from her lawyers is to commute the sentence. So no.
maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
She tortured a person to death, so I don’t think so
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
She was 19. Had been abused herself, and had fetal alchohol poisoning. If she’d had spent the last 30 years being rehabilitated, she’d be a very different person from that fucked up 19-yo.