Small Sacrifices..

by Snoozy 6 Replies latest social entertainment

  • Snoozy
    Snoozy

    Made for TV movie. It was so moving. I just saw a special on TV where they interviewed the baby she was carrying when arrested now a grown daughter. Diane Downs is the woman/mother accused and convicted of shooting all her children.

    If you do a search on the name Wiki has a really good article about her.

    They said she was denied parole a few years ago. My Question is: if she was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years why is she even elegible for parole?

    What is wrong with our judicial system?

    The woman had no remorse ..no feelings for the kids..and yet acted like she loved them dearly supposedly.There are some nutty people in the world. They called her a socialpath.

    Now the news is saying that new DNA evidence may let Jeffrey Dalmer go..

    I don't get it!!!!!!!!!

  • awildflower
    awildflower

    I just watched that tonight to. Farrah was great in the movie. That woman is sick. I want to google the kids she shot to see how they are doing now. They mentioned them briefly at the end of the show but I'd like to know more. As far as legal, my guess is that the laws 30 years ago were different than now. Maybe they have to honor the laws at the time she committed the crime, Idk. My question tonight is why after 25 years in prison is she not in a mental ward!! She is obviously in sane, why is she not getting help in that area?

  • mindmelda
    mindmelda

    Sociopaths aren't very responsive to the usual rehabilitation efforts of the psychological community. It's thought they might actually have a fundamental organic brain difference that might someday be treated pharmacologically or with gene therapy.

    That brain difference is a high tolerance to certain chemicals which give us normal range responses to emotions. These people seem to lack that...it takes violent stimulus to get them to feel anything much, and they crave that violent stimulation.

  • White Dove
    White Dove

    Jeffery Dahmer won't last 2 minutes out of prison. I'm not worried. Wait a minute, wasn't he killed in prison by bludgeoning?

    He died November 28, 1994 at the hand of another prisoner. He was beat to death.

  • mindmelda
    mindmelda

    Yeah, usually horrific serial killers don't last long in the general population, so they usually end up spending most of their life sentences more or less in solitary for their own protection, ironically enough.

    Even other criminals have little tolerance for people like Dahmer, they feel really threatened by someone who thinks torturing, killing and eating people is an interesting past time.

    I think the first time Dahmer got out in general, someone bashed his head in just because he looked at them funny.

  • White Dove
    White Dove

    Another guy got beat up with Dahmer but lived.

  • Snoozy
    Snoozy

    I wonder if they said he might be cleared and I took it as being set free?

    I haven't followed up on him as I couldn't stand to read about him. The announcement regarding the DNA evidence came on at the end of the show on 'Small Sacrifices.'

    But that is some interesting info on Sociopaths, thanks Mindmelda.

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