>>http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/23/virginia.woman.execution/index.html?hpt=C1
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>>I guess someone will be updating the lyrics for "Gramma got run over by a reindeer"
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>I don't know much about the case other than skimming that same article earlier today. It says she will be the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years, barring a last minute reprieve, which is does not sound like it's going to be forthcoming.
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>What strikes me as odd is that "the two triggermen" got life in prison and she got the death sentence. Evidently the courts decided her role in masterminding the plot was more serious than carrying it out.

It'd be nice if the USA would put an end to this barbaric practice of killing it's own people and join the 21st century with the rest of the civilized world.