Woman Gets Jail For Sexual Torture/Murder, Man Receives Death Penalty

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2008-12-22 22:34

Story here. Excerpt:

'INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - A suburban Kansas City woman pleaded guilty Monday to killing a woman whose sexual torture and suffocation were videotaped.

In a deal with prosecutors that allowed her to avoid the death penalty, Dena Riley, 42, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the May 2006 death of Marsha Spicer, who was suffocated during sex at an Independence apartment that Riley shared with her boyfriend.
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As part of the deal, Riley was sentenced to life without parole for the murder charge and to eight additional life sentences and 239 years in prison for 25 other counts.

Earlier this year, Davis was convicted and sentenced to death for Spicer's slaying. He also is charged in the federal case.'

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"During Davis' weeklong trial in July, the key evidence was videotapes that prosecutors say Davis and Riley made to fulfill Davis' violent sexual fantasies."

Note the story says this was all to fulfill the man's violent sexual fantasies. No one is arguing here that that is not the case. Whether one thinks death is an appropriate punishment in theory, much less in this case, is beside the point. But is it possible that the woman involved in these crimes was not also fulfilling her own violent sexual fantasies? Sounds like it to me.

If one is to be executed, then both must be. If one spared death, then both spared death. The problem here is the 2x-standard. I understand she turned evidence and that was likely her official reason for avoiding the death penalty, but there is also a not-so-official one at work here, too.

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Submitted by mcc99 on Tue, 2008-12-23 16:41

Dunno if they will post my comment, might have been over the top. But nobody ever listens to being Nice anymore, desensitization? /shrug

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Submitted by Michael on Tue, 2008-12-23 18:32