She could have gnawed him to death instead.....GRRRR!!!!
Posted on 03/27/2007 11:32:13 AM PDT by JZelle
DALTON, Ga. (AP) -- Jurors Tuesday spared the life of a former 911 dispatcher convicted of poisoning her boyfriend with antifreeze - the same way she had killed her husband six years earlier.
Lynn Turner could have faced the death penalty for the 2001 murder of Randy Thompson, a Forsyth County firefighter and father of Turner's two children. Instead, the jury sentenced her to life in prison without parole.
She was already serving a life term following her 2004 conviction in the antifreeze death of her police officer husband Glenn Turner in 1995.
Lynn Turner had maintained her innocence in both cases and did not testify at trial or during her sentencing hearing Monday.
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The Lifetime Rule: When a woman kills a man, the man had it coming.
I don't know what it is with these southern women. Antifreeze and arsenic poisonings seem to be the choices. What's up with that?
I would think the greasy cooking would do it on a more natural basis, clogging the arteries.
Your woe-is-me-I'm-a-man statement neglects one really obvious and glaring fact.
This woman is already serving a life sentence for murder and now has another one tacked one without the possibility of parole.
Clearly the Lifetime Rule was unknown to the jury.
Judging by her pic I'd say 'mall hair' had something to do with it.
***She was already serving a life term following her 2004 conviction in the antifreeze death of her police officer husband Glenn Turner in 1995.***
Isn't that the death sentence if the state supports it?
She could have gnawed him to death instead.....GRRRR!!!!
Never heard of "Mall Hair"! LOL!
For about 600 years, or ever since judges and juries were invented to try cases in England, the juries decided whether the defendant did the crime, and the judge then decided what the punishment would be, within the bounds of established law. Then, in death penalty cases only, the SC established by force -- not by any form of legal logic -- that the Constitution which carried on this ancient practice, now made it illegal.
The SC then required that every death penalty be applied by a jury, not a judge. So now, if you have one squeamish juror, a defendant who richly deserves to be executed, remains alive at tax-payer expense.
In this particular case, most judges would have looked at the fact that the defendant was already serving life for another poisoning to get the insurance money. On the second conviction for exactly the same thing, most judges would decide that this woman should be removed from the gene pool.
But jurors are squeamish. They are less willing to bear the consequences of their decisions than judges. So, courtesy of the US Supreme Court, this lady will live on, at the expense of the taxpayers of her state.
Congressman Billybob
There are many folks who kill multiple times who do not receive the death penalty. You seemed to suggest that it is entirely gender based, and I've yet to be convinced of that (and no, I do not think it is your responsibility to convince me).
She lives to kill again!
"I would think the greasy cooking would do it on a more natural basis, clogging the arteries."
Southern cooking is great and like anything done in moderation is great for you. Well I guess it could have taken a few years off my Great Grandmother when she died at 104 last year. However, her sisters (at 101 and 99) are still kicking and loving that Southern food..
She lives to kill again!
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don't worry, with life with no parole, she'll likely only kill other criminals.
And prison guards, prison medical staff, etc.
Here, drink this. It'll make me, uh I mean, you feel much better..........
LOL! I wonder if she will get the prison guard to take a sip of some Prestone.
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