I agree 100%. The ONLY difference between DP and LWOP is that with DP, the taxpayers pay for high dollar appellate attorneys to file brief after brief after motion after motion on JA's behalf. If JA gets LWOP, SHE gets to pay for any appeal expenses. She will be isolated for 23 hours a day, not allowed to speak to other inmates, eat her meals alone in her cell, get two 10-minute telephone calls per week and die in prison. She will not be followed by reporters writing about death row women and will very soon be forgotten.
DP just costs more and affords her all that notariety that she craves. The anti-death penalty websites will get behind her and make websites for her where the crazy supporters can contact her for all kinds of years until some whacko judge or governor commutes her sentence. Does anyone know how many women have been executed in AZ since the Supreme Court lifted the ban on capital punishment ins 1976? NONE. ZERO. There have only been a dozen
women put to death in all of the U.S. in that time.
I really believe LWOP makes sense for this thing.
Great post NanKelley.
So agree with you.
The taxpayers have already spent 2 million+ on defending this murdering piece
of trash.
LWOP would be much harder for JA. she's a legend in her own mind only.
Lock her away for life ... 23 hours/day in a tiny cell.
Her notoriety would keep her out of general population - so no socializing with
pod-mates, etc.
This would be JA's worse nightmare I think ... No special attention and JA all alone with her evil self.
Plus LWOP would not grant her the all the automatic appeals that the DP would give her. (also paid for by the taxpayers)
If she got the DP it would drag on for decades ... and JA would be the poster-murderer of martyr's for all the looney-tune crazies that fill her commissary account.
Put JA away and throw away the key. Never to be heard from again.