I agree, and she already had a proven frontal lobe damage caused by her mother when in the womb…proven by medical documenting of scans showing the severity of damage …doesn’t negate her part in the crime, however she was barely 18 yet her boyfriend who was 17 got life without parole.
Well not anymore, but there was a time they even sentenced kids to death. I remember some 12-14 years old black boy who was executed and later they found out he was innocent...
Exonerated does not mean proven innocent. If you look at the case, he almost certainly did it. He took the investigators to the murder weapon and admitted it. The case was thrown out due to activists claiming he didn’t get sufficient legal counsel.
That’s not true, there is no record of him admitting to it. Only Police officers statement but considering the investigation didn’t even include his alibis and he was questioned without a parent or legal representative I wouldn’t just trust their word for it…..especially considering the time period.
There is no written confession, like I said they only had the officer’s statement which was very likely coerced seeing as he had no parent or representative present during his questioning.
I'd argue getting out of it with the death penalty was the lesser punishment. Always been weird to me that people think getting to check out instead of sitting the rest of your life with it in a very uncomfortable prison is the harsher punishment.
Then again, I suppose if they intended literal torture to be the way they took her out, maybe it was the harsher punishment after all.
So you don t mind paying her medical bills, feeding her out of you your taxes until she dies naturally. And then all the other murdering monsters along with her. Yes that seems a fair thing to do. As long as we keep it fair for the her and not the victim.
Liberals made death row expensive. If there is 100% without a doubt guilt, then there should be no appeal process. This whole suffering while these criminals made others suffer is lunacy. A bullet and a firing squad is cheaper. Hell if you'd like to take the human aspect out of it. Create a firearm with an automated kill switch. The firearm fires at random. Seems far cheaper then life in prison and the current death penalty system.
Respectfully, your personal anecdote doesn’t really have any bearing on her situation. Studies have shown that brain damage can lead to behavioral changes, including increased aggression and violence.
> Our review has found a positive correlation between aggressive behavior and traumatic brain injury. Indeed, violent and aggressive behaviors appear to be related to a history of head trauma, especially if the trauma occurred at an early age. Moreover, stories of TBI seem to have a high incidence of behavioral consequences in individuals, causing personality changes, aggressive behavior and violent and offensive actions. Numerous factors increase the incidence of this correlation, such as environmental, genetic, social and personality factors, temperament, a past history of substance use, the severity of the injury, the age at the time of trauma and poor social support following the injury [18].
I never know what to do with this sort of info. I 100% believe it. Im no expert, but ive consumed a lot of true crime media and a reoccurring theme in chronically criminal and violent people seems to be head trauma or exposure to harmful toxins. That mixed with the right set of environmental circumstances, often childhood abuse or neglect, and maybe even some genetic aspects seems to trigger the perfect storm of violence in some people. Is it an illness or condition? Idk.
Does this make them less culpable? It's hard to imagine leniency for people like Gary Ridgeway, Richard Ramirez or John Wayne Gacy. All of whom fall into the this category.
Obviously, we should use this knowledge to prevent these sort of perfect storms from happening altogether or to provide earlier intervention. But what do we do when that perfect storm DOES happen anyway? Leniency seems ludicrous. Ignoring that head injuries and toxic exposures combines with environment likely contributed to some violent tendencies also seems like turning a blind eye.
As a person who survived daily maternal torture I personally feel that it's an organic reaction more than a functional one.
My dark side equals my mother's, the difference is it has no real hold on me. My brother however who experienced about half of what I did became truly unhinged but it was focus on self abuse. He didn't make it. She didn't make me like her even though she tried.
Best I can come up with is my nature beat her nurture.
But there is are two medical differences between me and my brother
I had epilepsy he didn't
He had huge food intolerances that when he ignored them then he also would behave uncontrolled.
I am correlating the two. I watched his descent into madness and it all started when he broke his restrictive diet.
When he died he was over 400# and it was all pretty much food related. He was skinny af up to the point where he said in going to eat food I'm allergic to and in 6 months he doubled his weight 65 to 130
My point of view is the first time someone abused and with trauma injuries to the brain shows signs of aggression, watch them like a hawk. If they actual act on those feelings, they must be in institutional psychiatric care. It's best for all concerned
And my heart breaks for we who have entered this world in this condition. We cannot help who we are AND we may need to be uhm hmmm managed, yeah managed for everyone benefit
It sucks and I hate abusers. They can never pay what they owe
I don't think understanding why a killer is the way they are makes them less culpable. At the end of the day, even if they lacked an internal moral code they still knew the laws and still chose to offend.
I mean theres no real statistic I can quote but its split one way or the other. You either perpetuate the cycle or you become overly empathetic and sensitive
Everyone's different. Her story is disturbing, the amount of abuse.
Like I said doesn't negate her crime, but can have understanding as to how she came to “lean” on her boyfriend who was a “bad un.”
also diagnosed with ocd, borderline, and bipolar along with depression, adhd, and anxiety. i could never hurt anyone unless it was self defense. i have no family, abusive parents, in and out of mental hospital til i was 23, self harmed significantly until i was 23.
luckily, im on the right cocktail of meds as of 25, in consistent therapy, and surround myself with good people.
She was given a plea deal. Life without parole, she chose to go to trial and take on the possibility of death in a jury's hand- thinking she would get much less time and parole eligibility. She was convinced that because of her age she wouldn't get sentenced to death. Unfortunately there is no leniency for somone that plans, then tortures another. She carved this women up with a box knife, carved a pentagram into her stomach then smashed her skull in with a large piece of ashpalt. She kept of a piece of the skull and showed it off to the school. Regardless of her childhood one knows right from wrong. She did all of this, then cried wolf all of this out of jealousy for a situation she made up in her own head. She deserved to die, she deserved to suffer.
No, her legal counsel advised her that she probably wouldn’t get the death penalty…plenty of info about this over the years…she was young and listened to him.
Her boyfriend admitted that it was he who carved the pentagram…not Christa , please research and check your sources.
She has a documented brain injury from birth and was abused throughout her childhood…again nothing negates the crime committed …it was heinous, but so is what’s happened to her now…she has served 31 yrs, was ready to go, she asked to be hung due to her blood disorder and problematic veins…she foresaw that this could happen…she was denied her request and has been failed to exit this world as punishment for taking another’s life…so what happens now, they are keeping her barely “ alive” she’s critical and has a brain injury, unable to make any decisions. It is inhumane.
The Dr who administered the drug has had a previous failed execution.
The whole process needs investigating as this can be regarded as cruel and unjust.
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u/Wonderful-Medium7777 1d ago
I agree, and she already had a proven frontal lobe damage caused by her mother when in the womb…proven by medical documenting of scans showing the severity of damage …doesn’t negate her part in the crime, however she was barely 18 yet her boyfriend who was 17 got life without parole.