I used to have a problem with the death penalty. I don’t anymore. I no longer am confused about whether the criminal cared about imposing the death penalty on their unsuspecting victim.
When people are murdered, people forget about the person that was murdered and whether that person wanted the death penalty.
That said, they have to be careful that their is no question that the person sentenced to death actually committed the crime.
If they can present evidence like DNA, they should be given the chance to do so.
This woman deserves the punishment. She will be alive far longer than her victim.
If the murderer decided that the death penalty was acceptable for him to impose upon his victim (usually in a horrible manner), then the murderer gives up his right to say that the death penalty is not also acceptable for society to impose upon him. IOW it is simply using the murder’s own standards toward the murderer!
Even society at large should see the simplicity of that death penalty Golden Rule logic....”Hey...the murderer was pro-death penalty for his victim, so what’s the problem here?”
The woman studied how to do a C-Section. They found all the info on her computer where she’d been planning on cutting the baby out for months.
It was a long, planned, premeditated murder.
People opposed to the death penalty spend too much time thinking about the perpertrator than they do the victim. Can you imagine the horror of being attacked? Can you hear the screams of pain? Can you imagine Bobby Jo pleading for her life and the life of her baby? Did Bobby Jo see her own blood splattered on Lisa Montgomery? Can you imagine the agony Bobby Jo must have experienced when she knew she was dying? Those are things that need to be taken into consideration too.