Hate to say it Laura - but Techno is 100% correct. Is it right..hell no, but maybe a 5% chance the death penalty, if that?
In the USA an individual is 3-11 times more likely to get the death penalty if they kill a white person vs. minority. Rape of white women averagely earns an extra 5 - 10 years than a minority female. Killing a female statistically receives far less punishment that killing a male. That's just looking at race and gender of victim, theres more stats showing who/what the victim is *unequivocally links to punishment severity* most times, no matter what anyone thinks - facts are facts and all stats from numerous groups prove that undeniably. Victims are not all equal in justice, far from it.
This would have went heavily to Jacobs favour. Heavily. She would have been vilified as an steroid abusing woman who went into a maniacal roid rage and he had to defend himself, and the uninformed general public would have bought it all. Death penalty - no way......
I doubt the DP would have been even on the table, let alone any reasonable sentencing given.