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China Arnold escapes the death penalty

After 5 hours of deliberation, the jury couldn't decide whether to recommend the death penalty or life in prison. Because they did not come to a unanimous decision, the woman who killed her baby in such an unthinkably horrible way will be sentenced to life either with or without parole.

I don't mean to come across as being pro-death penalty, because that's one issue I actually don't have a strong feeling about either way. For me, it depends on the individual case, and I can't say I think this woman really deserved the death penalty. Obviously it's horrific--both because of the method and the age of the victim--but it wasn't premeditated, and she was supposedly drunk at the time, not that that's an excuse.

What do you think?

Full post as published by Random Ramblings About Life and Law School on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).