Gaile Owens killed her husband and Tennessee is preparing to kill her.Mrs. Owens fate is subject to a riveting analysis by the Tennessean's John Siegenthaler which you should read for yourself at the Tennessean website. Siegenthaler compares and contrasts the Owens case to the nearly identical case of Mary Winkler.. As you will recall Winkler killed her husband and following 67 days of incarceration has custody of her children following her acquittal for murder. Owens lost her last court appeal and will be put to death if Tennessee's track record holds.
Can we add arbitrary and capricious to the death penalty debate, here on Bad Lawyer?
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There is a radical difference in the actions of Gail Owens and Mary Winkler. I was a close personel friend of Ron Owens and you could never convince me that Ron was a wife abuser. Just the opposite. Ron was always having to get her out of trouble. She was a thief, stealing money from her employer's to buy dope. And after he got her a job at the hospital where he worked, she stole drugs from the drug cabinets.
ReplyDeleteI pray she will be put to death as is the court order.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. I value you're insights and your ability to make a discrimination between the two situations, But perhaps you are missing a larger point--does it really matter what Gail Owens did verus Mary Winkler? And do we really know? I find it difficult to believe that we are capable in our own humanity to justify killing another human being. What do we accomplish by this act? Please tell us more, what do we accomplish? Do we make the world a safer place, do we do God's will, what...?
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The thing most people don't understand about abuse is that rarely do even close personal friends know it's happening. Every battered woman out there will tell you that the abuser's friends thought he was a great, upstanding guy. And if you didn't witness her steal drugs or money, don't bet on that being the truth either. If what you know of her was through him, it was probably made up to make her look bad. I know abuse, and it rarely looks like what you think. The nicest guys in the world go home and cause terror to their families. No, the death penalty here is not right.
ReplyDeleteI have to comment based on the latest stupidity in this case. This is a perfect EXAMPLE of what a complete JOKE the term "Life in Prison" or "Life Imprisonment" really is. A freakin' JOKE. Battered or not, she was a thief, drug abuser and who knows what else. SO many women use the b.s. "abused wife" excuse. UGH !
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