Whether the perpetrator is a man or a woman shouldn't have anything to do with the death penalty. Murder is murder. My brother was mutilated by that woman, and all he was trying to do was a humanitarian act of saving another human being. This was a gutless decision, because this state wasn't ready. This was a chance for our state to take a step forward, but they said this wasn't excessive enough.
Somebody has to hand down a punishment that's enough for that crime.
But I am consoled in knowing she will spend the rest of her life in prison. I guess that's something. Gocke said this particular ordeal was coming to an end, while she also expressed that the loss of her daughter was still a fact she would always have to live with. She gets to see her kids. Shannon's and Bob's children don't get to see them.