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?
***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?
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
She lives to kill again!