I would not classify it as a happy ending, but it is a just ending. And as far as health care is concerned, she’ll likely get better health care in prison that on her own.
There is no happy ending to this story and yes she will get better health care in prison. Can we now put this to rest. Its depressing
You’re both wrong. She comes from money, which means she would have better healthcare on the outside. I beg to differ about the “happy ending.” As long as she is unrepentant, I think we are all safer with this lady locked away. The fact that she doesn’t have access to a car, and the fact that the victim’s family wants her behind bars makes this a happy ending for me.
I agree with Peacefrog. Maybe we are safer with this woman behind bars, but that doesn’t make this a happy ending. There is no happy ending after something like this happens.
Perhaps instead of gloating over the denial of parole here, we all should resolve to drive a little more carefully tomorrow. It doesn’t take a drunk driver, or even a cell phone driver, to kill someone on the road.
Scrabbler
Amen
I have a couple of problems with capital punishment…It’s NOT evenly applied throughout the country. You may kill ONE person in Texas and get the chair…or in NH…kill 5 people and get life in prison…
Second…There have been too many cases where people on death row were released when DNA PROVED they were NOT the killers…Something like 50 people in the US so far. Eyewitness testimony has been proven so unreliable. To take someones life…there really needs to be much more evidence then just eyewitnesses.
Scrabbler, I am not gloating. I am expressing relief, and that relief is pleasing to me. You obviously have no personal connection to the victim’s family. This clemency request reopened a wound for them, and its denial allows that wound to begin healing again. If you have a problem with me taking pleasure that their pain is eased, I don’t care, and that goes for all of you.
I am not taking pleasure at someone else’s pain. I simply think the pain of this murderer is irrelevant. She has had plenty of chances to apologize to the victim’s family, yet she hasn’t. If she did, I am sure we would all try to forgive her.
Let look at this two ways–
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What if she had NO alcohol in her system and still hit & killed this man? How much jail time should she receive for being a poor, or otherwise in attentive and unsafe, driver?
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What if she had been 3X the limit (as the article indicates), hit him, but not killed him (but through sheer luck vs. her own actions)? Should she receive as much punishment for “almost” killing him?
The article doesn’t say whether she has any other offenses, but assuming she does not, what value in there in locking her up? My opinion would be to permanently revoke her right to drive and mandate that she attend AA meetings and perform community service for the next 10 or so years.
This does not seem to be a repeat offender, or someone who has shown disregard for the law by driving w/o a license. It’s also not someone who intentionally did something to harm another member of society–such as a thief, mugger, murderer, etc might be.
She endangered everyone around her by driving drunk yes, and ultimately she did kill a man. But what happens now? Does it really make sense to treat her like someone who drew a gun and killed someone intentionally?
This should be treated like the homicide due to negligence that it is.
Cops defense was that he thought he had pulled his Tazer.
That may have been his defense…but that doesn’t mean it was true.
Suspect was handcuffed on his stomach,cop had his knee in the back of victim when he shot him.
That tells me he definitely knew he was going for his gun and NOT the tazer…He would have shocked himself if he fired the tazer since he was in direct contact with the victim.
The govenor did the right thing. Let the judicial system solve this. Imagine if the govenor had granted clemency and this woman went right back out and did the same thing a month after being released.