"Antifreeze Killer" Spared Death Sentence

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2007-03-27 16:37

Disparities in sentencing based on gender?? Never! Well, maybe... read it here. Excerpt:

'Lynn Turner could have faced the death penalty for the 2001 murder of Randy Thompson, a Forsyth County firefighter and father of Turner's two children. Instead, the jury sentenced her to life in prison without parole.

She was already serving a life term following her 2004 conviction in the antifreeze death of her police officer husband Glenn Turner in 1995.

Lynn Turner maintained her innocence in both cases and did not testify at trial or during her sentencing hearing Monday.

Prosecutors said she was motivated by greed for the victims' life insurance money.'

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