Female prisoner on death row avoids execution by getting herself pregnant

[Cali Doll]

Whoa, that's insane.

I'm having trouble believing she and the donor were able to time things so perfectly. As a PP said, sperm doesn't live that long.

Inquiring minds...

[Unsettomati]

Originally Posted by Rakin

This will buy her a couple of years. Poor kid, being born to a mother on death row.

Try reading the article:

She collected the bags and used a syringe to impregnate herself, thereby forcing authorities to commute her death sentence to one of life imprisonment.

Originally Posted by Rakin

Death for Drug trafficking. And they say our punishments are harsh.

Fortunately, communist states are not role-models for the American judicial system.

Originally Posted by Skydive Outlaw

'Well played' ??

You think that a situation like this is 'well played'??

Calm down. The poster was obviously referring to the strategy of the inmate, not the moral implications of the move.

Originally Posted by Workin_Hard

Nonsense. The recidivism rate amongst death penalty criminals is zero. I guarantee that anone who has been executed will further add to instances of crime, violent or otherwise. The only problem with the death penalty is that it's too little used and is too lengthy a process as now implemented.

Some people are so enamored if their own dogma that they never bother to actually look at the fact that the states that execute the most people have among the highest violent crime rates in the country. It makes me wonder if they really care about reducing the crime rate, or just support the death penalty because it makes them feel good.

I live in Minnesota. We have no capital punishment. We also have the second-lowest incarceration rate in the country (it's nice paying less to incarcerate fewer people). The result? We have the 10th-lowest violent crime rate. It's also nice living in a low-crime state.

Personally, I don't much care either way about capital punishment. But I certainly don't pretend it does anything for criminal justice other than give some people a warm fuzzy.

Originally Posted by BIG CATS

Wow, this drug-trafficking woman just bought herself more time, just so she can spend it thinking about her impending doom, dealing with child birth, and then having a child that will be motherless... just so she can die anyways once the judge says to proceed with the execution.

Another poster who didn't bother to read the article. See above.

[Rkstar71]

Originally Posted by Workin_Hard

Nonsense. The recidivism rate amongst death penalty criminals is zero. I guarantee that anone who has been executed will further add to instances of crime, violent or otherwise. The only problem with the death penalty is that it's too little used and is too lengthy a process as now implemented.

Too lengthy a process?

I'd wager $100k your thoughts on that would change if you were falsely accused, convicted and sentenced to death for a crime you did not commit.