Before we execute a 17 year old woman how should we feel about her? Sorry for her or that she deserves to die?

Question

She is to die for the murder of a 93 year old man during a home invasion. The woman repeatedly stabbed the man numerous times with the crude blade of a broken bottle. As a small child she was sexually molested by an elderly man on occasions when the man came to her home. When she tried to tell her mother she would get whipped for telling lies

Answer 1

This 17 year old made a conscious choice  to participate in the home invasion .I'm pretty sure  that she and her fellow participants  knew the homeowner was 93 years old.She claims she was molested by an elderly man when she was a child and that is why she stabbed this man.I guess if we were to believe that we must also believe she was raised in a household  where crime was an accepted way of life.This girl (almost a woman) made a bad choice and from what you have told us was not forced at gunpoint or under duress to callously murder this man.Does she deserve our sympathy? I will reserve my sympathy for the 93 year old man whose life was taken in such a brutal manner.Save your tears for this girl, who if given the death penalty , will have many years of appeals.Her victim was delivered a death sentence with no chance for an appeal.

Answer 2

Ick...difficult situation.  Normally I would support the death penalty butt 17...yes, they know right fro wrong but having been abused and probably never went to therapy...Id like to see her do a long sentence that would try to habilitate her instead.  BUT..im saying that w/o knowing any real details.

Answer 3

I don't know. Sometimes I think that these people just need to be locked up and kept away from society. Sadly, we cant do this because the prisons are overcrowded with people who shouldn't necessarily be in there.  

Answer 4

well i would like to raise a few points in this question - 1 it is unethical and morally wrong to kill another person ! isn't the death penalty wrong then as well  no.2  does a person not have the right to  have a second chance ??  we are all humans and make mistakes, a psychiatric care would  benefit this young lady much more than  gaol or death penalty. The goal system  you keep prisoners that have killed more than one for longer than and in a more gruesome way than  this young girl has committed so what in the world is this coming to.  My last point is  i saw some one post here about those that kill should be killed then  what are you going to do with the armed forces soldiers that have killed  while on service but not on duty. ? are you going to reward them with praise and accolades well and good soldier, you have killed this many people and maimed and raped and murdered this many kids and mothers?? according to the poster here then should ?? those soldiers not face the death penalty ?? - We are  given life as a gift and do not have the right to judge and take life. no matter the act that has happened. !!  

Answer 5

it was wrong as we all would agree but under the circumstances she was probably not of sound mind,she most likely snapped and regressed back 2 her memories.maybe the man looked like the same guy.she does deserve our sympathy,she should be placed in psychiactric care or therapy not jail or death.

Answer 6

At 17 she knows what she's doing.

Not all people who are molested become murderers. She's completely responsible for her actions.

I am not condoning the death penalty, but I have no sympathy for her.

Answer 7

well is sad that her mother never believe what she told her, but that no excuse to kill someone, not everybody that molester becomes a killer, now about her penalty, i don't think it right to kill no one but there not much to do about it now

Answer 8

well i believe on an i 4 an i. life has the same value no matter wat the age.

Answer 9

I'm completely against the death penalty. Its obvious this woman has severe emotional scars, and is probably mentally ill. Her brain's chemicals are obviously out of whack, and she should be in a good asylum, not an electric chair.

Answer 10

Both!

Answer 11

I guess I feel sorry that no one listened to her before this point. But even with a traumatizing experience like that, we all still carry the choice in how to deal with it. She chose an option that has harsh consequences.

Answer 12

was the old man that she murdered the man that she was abused by? and to the people saying they have no sympathy, your cold. i feel sorry for this girl, obviously she was so ****** up that she lost control and murdered an old man. its ****** up that her mother didnt believe her and was abusive. h**l, if i grew up in a household like that, and i got sexually molested i would HATE everything and everyone that reminded me of my past. who knows what i'd do. not everyone grows up in a nice loving family like the people saying they have 'no sympathy'. you have NO idea what its like.

Yes, i do think she should pay the consequences of her actions. NO, i dont think she should be executed.

Answer 13

well i think ur crazy to execute a teenager even for muderer i mean she must have a lot of sicological abuse i mean was she even fit to stand trial i think she should be put in a mental hospital were she can get the help she needs

were do u live becuase u r just crazy and deranged to execute a 17year old teenager man dont u see that she is in need of help

killing people does not solve problems it just leave a kid dead for somethign that could have been prevented

Answer 14

No she is only a teen n had a ****** life

Answer 15

Right, what state or country in the western world is executing a minor?

None.

Answer 16

life not chair is my opinion for this case but if she gets life she is just wasting my tax dollars on her so i guess you could zap her or lethal inject her or whatever they do now days.

Answer 17

Murder is an unforgivable, horrible, inexplainable thing and anyone who is willing to kill someone is dangerous and needs to be killed. That man, the man she killed, meant a lot to somebody. He was probably someone's grandfather, someone's father, someone's uncle, someone's brother, and these people loved him and cared about him and a coldhearted person who is willing to kill him needs to know what it feels like to have your life taken away.

Imagine what it would be like to have a very close family member taken away, imagine how much hatred you would have toward the killer.

Even if she had been abused as a child, abusing others is not the way to deal with these feelings. People who have been abused need help and counseling. I have been in foster care since I was nine years old, and my life hasn't been all that easy, but I don't run out and kill people just because my mother didn't care.

Answer 18

IF the sexual abuse really happened (and not just a made up sob story to get out of a capital murder charge) that is sad.. BUT.. it doesn't excuse a murder during a home invasion.  She should be put to death if that is her punishment.

Answer 19

If she ivaded the home, no.

If he invaded the hime, no.

NO ONE deserves to die unless they freakin are crazy-a** psyco killers.

Answer 20

I have never heard of this story. I think that is unfortunate for her and unfortunate for the man. I don't think anyone has a right to kill anyone else though, so I don't think either deserve/d/s to die.  

Answer 21

i would feel very sorry for her, because of her situation. Since im not her, i would't judge her, what happened to her was a horrible thing and i cant say for sure that she knew what was right and wrong and that her experience shouldn't have affected her to that point, because im not her, how can you be 100% sure what its like to be her.

Answer 22

As a survivor myself, my personal oppinion is that there is a possibility of a psychotic break during the home invasion, thus making her not in control of her own sence of real or fake, but seeing that she was involved in the home invasion to begin with, it isnt quite like june cleaver walking down the road and then freaking out and kicking the neighbors dog.

She was already far more broken than the sexual abuse can be blamed for, and thus it was a decision, and has to deal with the fall out of that.

Answer 23

I do not feel sorry for her. Just because you are molested as a child does not mean you have to grow up and be evil. You choose how you want your life to be and she chose to kill someone so therefore she should pay with her own life.

Do you feel sorry for her? I don't.

Answer 24

im sorry that nobody believed her before this point...but i have no smpathy for her now...she is 17...she knows the difference between right and wrong..she was not right in doing by any means....she should pay the consequences for her actions...there are alot of kids that r malested butnot all of them are murders.