Now that Jodie Arias has been convicted of first degree murder should she get life in prison or the death penalty?
I’m generally against the death penalty except for the most evil crimes like mass murder or terrorism. My opinion, if I were on the jury, that crimes of passion get life in jail.
However …
Jodie Arias says she would prefer death to life in prison. So – if I were on the jury and wanted to give her a break and actually believed her, which would be somewhat insane in itself, I might go with the death penalty because she literally asked for it. I’m wondering what an appeal would look like to overturn a death penalty conviction based on the jury deciding to give the defendant what she asked for?
Thoughts?
Especially in this case (as reported, anyway) – sounds to me like Life might be a punishment, as opposed to an “easy” out.
The point of Life imprisonment, is to give people time to come to terms with what they’ve done.
Life, is the correct choice, every time.
Or to put it in eye-for-an-eye terms, if that sounds to limp liberal… If the bad guys want to get to you, they don’t kill you, they kill your family and let you live with it for the rest of your life. In this case, we’re the bad guys.
How can you even think of putting this woman to death? She was only acting in self-defense.