Also, in Texas, the burden of proof for insanity is on the defense. In Massachusetts, burden of proof is on the prosecution. His defense had to prove he was insane when committing the crime while her defense just had to poke holes in the prosecution’s case.
And I'm curious who his lawyer was, she has the best in the business. Sick and tired of this BS comparing men to women and trying to make it about gender to add to misogyny. This is about different laws, different states, and better lawyers. And it's a tragedy if a mentally ill father kills his kids and gets the death sentence, what, you want her to get it, too? I hate this timeline so much. ETA: thanks for the award! Also, apparently this particular dad referenced is a piece of garbage-- thought still stands.
The problem with this is that the coin is always one sided. The vast majority of the time where you see a discrepancy in sentencing it's always the man receiving the harsher sentence.
Look at any case where you have codefendants that are male and female, the man is almost always given a longer sentence and the women is always portrayed as somehow not being as responsible for her actions.
What about that guy in North Carolina that killed the girl on the train? Hadn’t he been to jail for violent acts in the past and released already or was that just internet urban legend?
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u/klako8196 15h ago
Also, in Texas, the burden of proof for insanity is on the defense. In Massachusetts, burden of proof is on the prosecution. His defense had to prove he was insane when committing the crime while her defense just had to poke holes in the prosecution’s case.