[lacrew]

The death penalty in this country is a crap shoot. Just today, in local news (Kansas), a murderer was sent back to prison on a parole violation.

IOW, a few years ago, this guy was actually paroled! His crime was in 1980, he entered the home of a woman he knew, stole one dollar from her, tied her up with a cord, raped her, drowned her daughter in the tub, beat and stabbed her small boy in the chest, and left him for dead.

That guy gets parole. This woman gets the death penalty. Doesn’t make sense. Especially since her sentence is harsher than the ‘hands on’ killer’s was.

[Vigilanteman]

One can always find examples of even more hideous scumbags who escaped proper justice. That is not a good argument for abolition of the death penalty. But it is perhaps a good argument for expanding it.

[Paul R.]

The actual killer made a deal...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Different states, different laws, different sentences.

In Michigan we have never had a death penalty, reason is that we got one wrong back in the days when we were a territory and executed an innocent.