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link to LA TimesWhat are your thoughts? Keep her locked up - this is my (emotionally based not intellectually based) opinion.
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I agree...although there are people released every day from prison that are REAL threats to society. I doubt very highly that this 61 year old woman poses a danger to society. As it stands, the law suggests that IF she is no longer a dnager, she should be released. I happen to think it should be life without the possibility of parole. That would solve the whole issue.
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Shot her affair partner's betrayed wife 4 times with a gun she brought along, and then finished her off with a potato peeler.
Sorry, life in prison. She is lucky she didn't get the death penalty.
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Oh My no way, her choices lead it to be a completely premeditated event. Regardless of her age she needs to remain in prison until her last dying day.
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I agree 100%...prison is where she should remain. BUT, since she was not sentenced to "life without parole" most likely, she will be released. Sad, but true. They need to change the laws regarding murders to reflect the seriousness of the crime.
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I think she and other murders deserve to die.
I believe if a person does something such as murder or what not that is should be done to the person who did the crime.
I hate that there are murders out on parole. They are not sound mind to be out in public. Regardless of what 'rehab' they have done and what they did behind bars.
This is such a touchie subject being that she killed a BS but over looking that, regardless of age, she should suffer behind bars and either death sentence or life with NO parole.
Married 1996 4 wonderful children 16, 13 *OC*, 10, 7 FWW 30's FWH 30's My dday 1-2007 he came clean to me My story New beginings
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I am exceptionally in the minority for cops/ex cops...but I do not believe in the death penalty. Too many innocent people have already been executed and the system has proved too unreliable to keep this penalty available as an option.
Life without parole is the choice that I see as best.
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Holy moly. While she was in prison, Lawrence earned two degrees, learned trades that included plumbing and data-processing, was president of the inmates’ Toastmasters Club, worked as a library porter and tennis coach, co-founded a tutoring program and remained discipline-free. Two college degrees? Plumbing and Data-processing trades? Toastmaster's? Tennis coaches (implying there is a team and "lessons" at the penitentiary)? Some of us are living a moral, decent life out here, barely making it. To see violent inmates allowed so many extras that are denied to the average joe, because of financial constrictions, is unbelievable. I'm sorry, I didn't set out to change the direction of this thread, but why on earth are prisoners beneffiting from an education and leisurely activities?? We're paying over $800 a month in student loans. It sure does look like crime pays -- for the Convicted in this case, anyhow. What are we teaching criminals? If you want an education, commit a crime. The OM's BW surely won't be able to "pick up her grandniece", "have a career", and "start making money again." Nor will she be able to sit on a balcony and overlook the ocean, as portrayed by Lawrence in the article. I don't know how I feel about this one, to be honest, but it sure does leave room for thought, and for all kinds of reasons.
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