• Davidchan@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    Nice strawman. Surely race was the only differing factors in these two cases, and it had nothing to do with with the fact that Kizer traveled 40 miles to shoot her abuser after escaping him months ago (that his convinction failing is the real injustice here) and took a plea-deal to avoid a life sentence for premeditated murder, where as Hughes lived with her abuser, was beaten the night of killing, called the cops, watcher her abuser talk the cops down, beat her again, starved her, raped her, threatened her and her children and burned her school books before she killed him and took her children to the police station to turn herself in.

    But yes please insist these two cases are like for like.

    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I didn’t say race was the only issue, but you’d have to be blindingly, overwhelmingly ignorant to think race doesn’t play a part in sentencing.

      The cases are alike in that both women were put through horrific situations that caused them to react violently. I think that’s pretty similar.