12-10-2018, 08:03 PM
(12-10-2018, 06:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Cyntoia was a prostitute who killed a guy who hired her for sex. That is first degree murder. If she had been an adult she would have deserved a life sentence.
Vehicular homicide is a much lower level crime than First Degree Murder. Under the law killing someone by accident is not s bad as intentionally killing a person, but I can certainly see the logic of the people who disagree.
Not only that, she murdered him while he was sleeping and then stole his possessions. I pity the life that poor girl lived, but it doesn't excuse, or in this case even mitigate, her actions.