KEY POINTS

  • 33-year-old Lucy Letby was convicted on Friday of killing seven babies in the neonatal unit of a hospital in England.

  • A handwritten note found by police officers who searched her home after the arrest read “I killed them on purpose”.

  • Letby will be sentenced on Monday and faces a very long prison term, and possibly a rare full life sentence.

    • jtk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I’m not some huge fan of the death penalty. There’s a hefty line, but this is WAY past it.

        • Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Wait I’m confused are there actually people who think she didn’t do this? I looked at the evidence it’s pretty f****** clear she killed like a bunch of babies. Like how much of a psychopath do you have to be to kill a baby not only a baby, preemies. The most defenseless of defenseless, like are you for real or are you just like joshing and having a laugh, are you for real?

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            Oh YOU looked at the evidence? Ok, nothing more to do here boys, time to shut down the courts and legal institutions, we found a much better way to do things. Why haven’t we thought about contacting you sooner?

            You think there is no deception possible in this world? Imagine you killed someone and afterwards it turns out a mistake was made in the process?

            • Nythos@sh.itjust.works
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              Dude what?

              There’s a note in her handwriting admitting she did it.

              All the babies that died, died whilst she was on shift at a infinitely higher rate than what was normal

              The text messages on her phone link to the dates of when the babies were killed.

              People can often be locked up or sentenced under some pretty circumstantial evidence, but that is not the case here.

        • jtk@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          Then she was looking to end her life anyway. Used a rather round about method to pull it off, but it was her choice.

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        1 year ago

        How? I can’t see any argument at all for how this would qualify for the death penalty. This is like the prime case of when it’s not needed

          • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            Why threat does she pose while in jail? She isn’t a mafia leader who can still be dangerous. That’s why this is key example of when not to kill someone