realanastasia
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Confused. "District Attorney Matt Weintraub said Shana and Dominique Decree would have faced the death penalty were it not for their severe mental illness."
So they determined the killers had severe mental illness, but still gave them life in prison? If they really had gotten brainwashed by some cult and were mentally kill, I find that sentence surprising. I'd think they would at least have some chance at rehabilitation, no? Wish they'd explain the whole reasoning behind the murders. It just makes no sense with the little info we're given beyond the victims supposedly wanting to die.
I could not agree more! I have heard of people pleading “not guilty by reason of mental illness” and others being found guilty but having their mental impairment considered as a mitigating factor in sentencing, but I don’t recall hearing of anything similar to this, where the two defendants were acknowledged to have had mental illnesses when they committed the crime but were still handed sentences of life imprisonment (as opposed to being permanently committed to a correctional facility for those with mental illnesses).