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 T#@> Re: Re: Susan Smith Trial

 >   Yes, and once again I am flabbergassed by the justice system. Newsweek did
 >   an article on it saying about 66% of polled Americans felt she should be
 >   fried. Now, I would dearly love to know what that jury heard that convinced
 >   them to give her "life" in prison, as I would like to know why capital
 >   punishment is on the books of 38 states and yet 90% or better of the
 >   condemded are still alive?

 T#@> Only thing I can think of that must have given the jury some sympathy
 T#@> towards Smith was the fact she was sexually abused as a child by her
 T#@> step-father.  What I didn't understand was didn't they say she still
 T#@> has been having sex with this man as recently as a month or two before
 T#@> she murdered her two boys?

 Yeah. I can only guess someone made a hell of a case for her inability
 to shake her confused childhood attachment to the jerk, but then we
 have the rich boyfriend affair -- another looser -- and her "wonderfull"
 <dripping sarcasm> husband, all the one night stands, and don't I sound
 like I'm passing judgement? I am. What married people choose to do is
 their business, I'm not a puritan, but when they choose to kill innocents
 using those affairs as triggers.... 'scuse me, time to cool off!
 ZED!

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