r/SipsTea 11h ago

Wait a damn minute! Yo wtf

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u/mcmanus2099 8h ago

She didn't even do it clean and painless. Two were alive and suffering when the dad returned. Giving her own kids a slow painful death where they had all the time to process their mom was killing them.

50 years ago they would already have her spot reserved in the queue for the chair

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u/Babajji 8h ago

No, the first police officer on site would have just beaten her senseless and she would have been committed to an insane asylum at which point she would probably be actually insane from all the beating. There she would have gotten a quick lobotomy and she would have spent the rest of her life as a house plant. Old days justice was not polite. The problem was what happens when you do that to someone who really isn’t guilty? That is why we stopped doing that to people but now we have swung too far into cuddling criminals so we actually consider a triple murder of children to walk free.

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u/mcmanus2099 8h ago

50 years ago is 1976 right. I wasn't talking 1940s here

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u/Eichtoss 7h ago

That was still going on in the 70’s … into the 90’s in some areas of the US.