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    Sean BrodyGabrielle Bluestone
    9/30/15 9:23am

    Death penalty aside, one of the things I have long had difficulty grasping about American justice is this co-conspirator lark.
    We’ll kill you for doing something bad, but also if you’re with someone that does something bad.
    Even in the 60s when the UK still had the death penalty, you had to kill someone. You know, yourself.

    You hear these stories here about people in jail for life for being in a fucking car one time.

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      HoldencannanSean Brody
      9/30/15 9:27am

      Well that’s not the case here. The victim was set up by this lady for insurance money, of course conveniently left out. This isn’t a case of little old lady just happened to be there when someone got murdered.

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      BrianGriffinSean Brody
      9/30/15 9:27am

      This is what I’m feeling about this case, too. Being sentenced to death in the first place seems unusually harsh for the crimes that she committed.

      Does anyone know the fate of the man that actually did the killing?

      Edit: it appears the ACTUAL murder only got life in prison because he plead out. Yep, sounds like a fair legal system to me.

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    Zach EversonGabrielle Bluestone
    9/30/15 9:25am

    More evidence that the death penalty is broken beyond repaid and needs to be abolished: the actual killer plead guilty and got life, the conspirator did not plea and was killed.

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      BIGbeefZach Everson
      9/30/15 9:31am

      Has nothing to do with the death penalty. This is just Darwinism.

      She gambled with her life and lost. Rest In Pieces, but honestly she’ll probably go to hell for all of this.

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      Why So Furious?Zach Everson
      9/30/15 9:31am

      So the lesson is that our criminal justice system is like, “Take the plea. I swear to God, if you make me take this thing to trial, I will totally fucking kill you.”

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    yankeesfan345Gabrielle Bluestone
    9/30/15 9:24am

    Statement from the victim’s family.

    “Kelly planned and executed Doug’s murder. She targeted him and his death was intentional,” Douglas Gissendaner’s loved ones said in a written statement.

    “In the last 18 years, our mission has been to seek justice for Doug’s murder and to keep his memory alive. We have faith in our legal system and do believe that Kelly has been afforded every right that our legal system affords.

    “As the murderer, she’s been given more rights and opportunity over the last 18 years than she ever afforded to Doug who, again, is the victim here. She had no mercy, gave him no rights, no choices, nor the opportunity to live his life. His life was not hers to take.”

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    Good enough for me.

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      Floodyankeesfan345
      9/30/15 9:33am

      Seriously where is the candlelight vigil for the husband who was brutally murdered?

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      ThenSAyankeesfan345
      9/30/15 9:38am

      We should not let murderers set our standards for mercy and compassion.

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    OhioGrownGabrielle Bluestone
    9/30/15 9:24am

    Are we supposed to be upset that they executed a woman who purposefully caused the murder of another human being? I’d say this is a perfect example of being treated equally to the punishment of what a male should get in the same situation.

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      hotoynoodleOhioGrown
      9/30/15 9:27am

      her death doesn’t magically resurrect the dead guy.

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      Just another Gawkfugeehotoynoodle
      9/30/15 9:36am

      Her death provides closure to her victim’s loved ones.

      And that’s good enough for me.

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    MisterGabrielle Bluestone
    9/30/15 9:23am

    The boyfriend, the one that actually killed the man, was sentenced to life in prison.

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      Sean BrodyMister
      9/30/15 9:28am

      The boyfriend, the one that actually killed the man, was sentenced to life in prison.

      Shit, really?
      Fuck me.

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      BubbaWatsonsChestHairSean Brody
      9/30/15 9:31am

      Better news: he’s parole-eligible in 2022!

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    Hip Brooklyn StereotypeGabrielle Bluestone
    9/30/15 9:30am

    It was the third try for Georgia, which had reportedly cancel previous attempts to execute Gissendaner due to inclement weather and “cloudy” lethal injection drugs.

    Inclement weather? Were they initially planning to execute her al fresco?

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      Jujymonkey3Hip Brooklyn Stereotype
      9/30/15 9:58am

      Worse. It was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

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      JigglyballHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      9/30/15 10:00am

      It was during one of our snow/ice storms, which shuts down pretty much the whole state. Roads are impassable and public institutions close, so there might not have been the right staff on hand/people present.

      That aside, the death penalty is barbaric and absurd and I'm embarrassed that my state still uses it and my country allows it.

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    LenovoUser2223Gabrielle Bluestone
    9/30/15 9:26am

    Kill a man? Life imprisonment.

    Plot to kill a man? 18 years imprisonment then murdered.

    That hardly seems fair, even assuming that state-sanctioned murder is morally just.

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      You might be wrong.LenovoUser2223
      9/30/15 10:31am

      What you’re saying sounds right, but your logic doesn’t scale very well. What if someone arranges for the deaths of two people? A dozen? Six million? Should they be considered less responsible for those deaths than the people who carried them out?

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      NicoYou might be wrong.
      9/30/15 10:50am

      Your logic sounds good, but it's just not the same.

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    gator32301Gabrielle Bluestone
    9/30/15 9:25am

    i’ve pretty much gotten to the point where i think capital punishment should be scrapped entirely, but am i supposed to care more if it happens to woman as opposed to a man? the media coverage seems to go well beyond treating it as a statistical anomaly. not to mention the “she became a model citizen in prison” narrative is trumpeted exponentially more.

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      Armageddon T. ThunderbirdGabrielle Bluestone
      9/30/15 9:25am

      Killing is wrong. Don’t make us kill you to prove it.

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        Lawrence IpsumArmageddon T. Thunderbird
        9/30/15 10:55am

        Years ago, my kids and I were in a Denny’s with a young family sitting in the booth across from us. A boy of about six years and his sister of about four were fussing while waiting for their food. The girl kept telling her brother to quit poking her and the father kept telling both of them to quit it. One more poke and then her squealing, STOP! the girl simultaneously smacks her brother.

        The angry father leaps up and out of the booth, grabs the girl by the forearm and drags her to the aisle to administer punishment. The rest went like this:

        HOW [*SMACK*] MANY [*SMACK*] TIMES [*SMACK*] DO [*SMACK*] I [*SMACK*] HAVE [*SMACK*] TO [*SMACK*] TELL [*SMACK*] YOU [*SMACK*] DO [*SMACK*] NOT [*SMACK*] HIT [*SMACK*] YOUR [*SMACK*] BROTHER!

        Great job, Ace, teaching your kids not to hit by hitting them. Hitting is NEVER okay! (unless you are bigger and stronger).

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      tornadoslackssGabrielle Bluestone
      9/30/15 9:29am

      A divorce would have caused less death all around.

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