In this case, she may have some convince the courts she was too young to be fully aware of what she was doing so they might cut her sentence and turn her loose on some other poor soul.

At some point she will probably claim to have become a Christian and various religious groups will want her released since she’s new-born.

She appears to be mostly black so there are organizations who will claim her sentence was too harsh based on her race rather than the nature of her crime.

(You DO understand some people are simply crazy don’t you? They will defend any act if they consider the person one of their own — a sister, a woman, a professed Christian. Further, they don’t care what they have done because they say, “What’s done is done and none of you have a right to judge her.” This is also silly, but also a daily event.)

And she WILL learn to act repentant convincingly. Truth is, she may eventually come to repent, not because of the punishment she has received but because she may eventually realize the horror of her actions.

It would be nice if we could tell the truth of her conversion/change.
Nice if we could convince her the truth.
Nice if we could recognize the mind-set before and stop such crimes from happening in the first place.

David for better people

Nah, we’ve never cured evil.
It keeps cropping up all over.
Evil existed during the time of gallows and public executions, so it obviously didn’t cure it.

David for truth

There is always a chance of having the conviction and/or sentence overturned. Sometimes errors are found in the initial trial, witnesses say afterward they lied, evidence is lost or found, the defendant had an ineffective counsel. Sometimes lawyers and judges are shown to have suppressed evidence which would have freed the defendant.

The Supreme Court may change the ground rules by deciding society’s “evolving standards” no longer allow for the death penalty. Sometimes they even argue cruel and unusual punishment for taking so long to execute. Some argue unequal treatment under the law because a disproportionate racial or ethnic group winds up being sentenced.

State legislatures throw out capital punishment due to conscience or pressure from assorted groups or even to save the cost of all the Constitutionally guaranteed appeals.

Governors and even the President sometimes pardon convicts. Parole boards decide the convict is too old and sick to be worth keeping in prison any more so they decide to release them.

That’s why.

David for perfect justice

David for not causing nightmares