I agree, another look at the first shooting is warranted.
You’d think that after the first shooting,that is, if it had been accidental, she wouldn’t want to be around guns at all.
I wonder if the first shooting really wasn’t accidental, but since she got away with it then she thought she would get away with it this time.
Either way, she’s in Alabama now, not Massachusetts. An insanity defence might work to keep her off death row, but it’s unlikely she’ll see the light of day anytime soon.
John Polio, chief of police at the time, said Amy Bishop, who was 20 at the time, had asked her mother, Judith, in the presence of her brother how to unload a round from the chamber of a 12-gauge shotgun.
Polio told the Globe that while Amy Bishop was handling the weapon, it fired, wounding Seth Bishop in the abdomen. He was pronounced dead at a hospital 46 minutes after the Dec. 6, 1986 shooting.
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It probably went something like this: “Ok Mom, you think he’s so special - how about I unload this 12-gauge chamber in your precious little son?”