Woman Sentenced for Setting Man on Fire

AP ^ | 1/21/6

[SmithL]

Galena, Mo. -- A woman who killed her ex-husband by dousing him with gasoline and setting him on fire has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Barbara Ann Banning, 60, poured the fuel on her ex-husband while he was sitting in a recliner recovering from knee surgery. She then lit a piece of newspaper on a stove and threw it at him.

Neighbors put out the flames, but Fred Bounous died hours later.

"No one's going to miss him more than I will,"

[SmithL]

hunka hunka burnin love

[SouthernFreebird]

That's just nasty. He was helpless.

[xcamel]

Build a man a fire, he be warm for a few hours.

Set a man on fire, He'll be warm for the rest of his life.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Set a man on fire, He'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Are you sick, or just drunk? I am disgusted by how low you hold the value of another person's life.

To be murdered is such a sadistic fashion is wrong.

[SmithL]

She gets at least 25 years to "really miss him." I wonder how helpless she'll be at 85.

[RedBeaconNY]

[isthisnickcool]

Are you sick, or just drunk? I am disgusted by how low you hold the value of another person's life.

Black humor. Human nature.

[Xenalyte]

FWIW, I thought what you said was pretty funny.

[mtbopfuyn]

After years of abusing the wife and he's back on her recliner after they've divorced? Surely, she could have claimed he was smoking at the time.

[xcamel]

I really hope you don't take everything this seriously. It's a joke that dates back before white men invented smokey the bear.

[Brujo]

To be murdered is [sic] such a sadistic fashion is wrong.

So there's a right way to be murdered?

[Paul C. Jesup]

So there's a right way to be murdered?

From the point of view that some monsters/tyrants deserve to die, the proper way is two bullets shot to the back of the skull, execution style. It's messy, but quick, painless and effective.

[Brujo]

From the point of view that some monsters/tyrants deserve to die, the proper way is two bullets shot to the back of the skull, execution style. It's messy, but quick, painless and effective.

Got it.

So if this women had shot her husband twice in the back of the skull, you'd say that was the right way to commit murder.

[Paul C. Jesup]

So if this women had shot her husband twice in the back of the skull, you'd say that was the right way to commit murder.

Was the man a monster/tyrant... I doubt it, so murdering the man was wrong.

[Brujo]

Was the man a monster/tyrant... I doubt it, so murdering the man was wrong.

Thank you.

For what it's worth, I apologize if my responses were too sarcastic.

[Paul C. Jesup]

You can only blame yourself for not adding a 'sarcasm tag' to your comments.

[ozarkgirl]

Must have been a change of venue. I saw from the article Robert George was prosecuting attorney. He is prosecuting attorney for Lawrence County. Matt Selby is prosecuting attorney for Stone county where Galena is.

[SmithL]

You can only blame yourself for not adding a 'sarcasm tag' to your comments.

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