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The wife who killed her preacher husband
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/14...ain/index.html
What if this had been flipped on its head, would a man get just 7 months of jail for killing his wife? Death Sentence Quote:
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There is a chilling double standard in how women are prosecuted and penalized for murder of husbands and children, as compared to husbands and fathers.
A man is quickly given a death sentence but a woman is considered necessarily insane and let free.
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She was prosecuted, and acquitted. I don't know what exactly he did that made it ok to kill him (maybe he threatened to kill her? can you kill someone that threatens you)? Well, FWIW, this guys' genes have been propagated. |
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"Chilling double standard"? LOL. Not to me since I don't plan to kill anyone least of all a woman. Those words are kind of over the top unless those are your plans. It's not like that double standard will ever really matter to most of us.
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No, but if it trickles down to other types of crimes in which clients might be involved, then it could have an unintended impact.
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The double standard does trickle down... I spent the summer working in a domestic violence clinic.
In some states the cops have to take at least one person in to custody on a dv call. If they show up, somebody is going to jail. It's sort of a CYA thing. They'd hate to show up, leave, have somebody get killed, and then get sued for failing to prevent. Anyway... How many women do you think get taken to jail? The thing that really made me sick was the way some people would stroke the system. I'm not talking about the victims, I'm talking about the people who are just a little too zealous in helping the victims. Somehow all of these victims manage to come before a judge and articulate in perfect legal terminology (an in a format following statute) exactly what they need to say in order to get a protective order. And does the judge sign the order? Of course... Because it's all about CYA. If a man got the hell beaten out of him by his wife and the neighbors called the police, there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that she is going to be arrested and threatened with a PO. Even if the guy is 63 yrs old, 5'6" and married to a 6' 230 lb ex-con. I've seen it too many times. I recognize that men are far more likely to be abusers than women, but the way the law is applied, it assumes that men are the only abusers and there is almost nothing in the law to punish women who abuse. |
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