Kelly Renee Gissendaner was convicted of murdering her husband in 1997. Well, she conspired to anyway. Yep, Georgia put her down. Which is newsworthy since they hadn't done something like that in 70 years.
Now, this is where I get bent out of shape with feminism. Guys get the death penalty like they were handing out Skittles. The double standard is ridiculous. But no one gives a shit. Why? Because women tend to focus on the shit that effects them directly. If life were fair, more women would be on death row. At least trying to even the playing field here. Nope. Men get the juice, women get life. No one seems to care either way though. I wonder if there wasn't a disproportionate amount of women to men on death row, they'd bitch about that. Dunno. I guess it's in our nature to assume a violent man deserves to be put down rather than a violent woman. Which, in itself, is pretty sexist. But...we agree to that, but don't seem to agree on roles for women in movies. I would say, if we really had to compare, it's not being bad being a woman, having emotional breakdowns and committing murder. It's damn near excusable as "being that time of the month."
I digress, most of the times a show like "Snapped" is on the air, is to practically excuse the bad behavior of a woman. Who did her wrong, wasn't as important as the fact that she committed a terrible crime. Even the title "Snapped" bumps them down to 2nd degree murder even before the program starts. I would also like to add, most women do get paroled, having served practically a fraction of their actual sentence. What does that tell us? We don't believe women are habitually violent. Which is true, but still a generalization.
I think if women truly wanted equal rights in this country, we don't need to wait another 70 until the next one goes down. Dude, that's Haley's comet type shit.
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