I don’t know if they have determined which one strangled the mother. Presumably he can get charged with capital murder but I suppose they will escape the death chamber because they’ll claim mental retardation or some other bull. I don’t know if deaths resulting from setting the house on fire can result in a first degree murder charge. In any case, if either should ever walk out of prison again, even if it is decades from now, an angry mob had better be there. I am hoping by that time I will be long gone.
That “tragedy could have been worse” crime is puzzling unless the town manager meant the scumbags might have escaped. Too bad the cops didn’t just shoot them on sight. It also could have been worse if they had done this to someone else.
I had thought few other “home invasion” cases could be worse than the Wichita 2000 incident but in some ways this was much worse, with sexual assaults on a child, and an ordeal that lasted twice as long. We’ll see if any ‘reform’ to the justice or parole systems come from this but I won’t hold my breath.