Weird crime penalty

[LurkerNoMore]

Entire article here
http://news.yahoo.com/board-meets-clemency-only-woman-georgia-death-row-070143034.html#

If you don't want to read the entire article, here is the weird part :

Gissendaner's lawyers submitted a statement from former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher to the parole board. Fletcher argued Gissendaner's death sentence was not proportionate to her role in the crime. Her lover, Gregory Owen, who did the killing, is serving a life prison sentence and will become eligible for parole in 2022. He also noted that Georgia hadn't executed a person who didn't actually carry out a killing since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Kelly Gissendaner repeatedly pushed Owen in late 1996 to kill her husband rather than just divorcing him as Owen suggested, prosecutors have said. Acting on her instructions, Owen ambushed Douglas Gissendaner at Gissendaner's home, forced him to drive to a remote area and stabbed him multiple times, prosecutors said.


Apparently the man who did the actual physical act of murder got a lesser sentence and a chance at parole than she did.

[Dos Equis]

Read this last night and was going to post it.  Not sure it's unusual for the leader of the conspiracy to get a harsher punishment, but the death penalty is the wrinkle here.  Definitely outside the box.  Frankly, they both should be executed IMO. 

[LurkerNoMore]

  Very strange they would judge her more harsh.  I could see it if she held the victim down or drove him to the execution spot herself, etc..   but yes, I agree that both should be executed.

[Irongrip400]

  Very strange they would judge her more harsh.  I could see it if she held the victim down or drove him to the execution spot herself, etc..   but yes, I agree that both should be executed.

The boyfriend ratted her out though. I'm sure part of that deal was that the DA would take the death penalty off the table for him. It's a shame, they should've killed them both. Glad she's gone.

[Dos Equis]

The boyfriend ratted her out though. I'm sure part of that deal was that the DA would take the death penalty off the table for him. It's a shame, they should've killed them both. Glad she's gone.

I agree, although I think it's not uncommon for the killer to roll on the leader of the conspiracy in exchange for a lighter sentence.