A woman gets in a fight with her husband and shoots him dead. 31 years later the woman gets in a fight with her husband and shoots him dead. The first one was a freebie, kind of like how every dog gets one free bite. This second one, well, it's starting to look like a pattern.
Back in 1972 one of my neighbor's daughters killed a boyfriend in a domestic dispute. I tried to puzzle it out from the newspaper article- right, wrong? I looked to my mother for a clue about how to feel about this. She didn't have a problem with it. There are good reasons for killing the person you live with, but I was thinking about that case the other day and wondering how much effect the times have on punishment of crime. 1972 was a big year in the women's movement. So far during my life there hasn't been a climate of opinion where it would be acceptable for Mr. Cracker to kill me in an argument, and for that I'm glad.
Don't marry O.J., then. He's down in your neck of the woods, ya know...
We'll see about Scott Peterson. Here in California we seem to run about 50/50 on idiot verdicts.
Posted by: James at June 24, 2004 12:01 AMOJ. I'm going to have to add a qualification.
Posted by: Donnah at June 24, 2004 11:22 PM