When you read stuff like this it makes you even more pro-death penalty. Yes I have read OPs comments. What Pike needed was absolutely the death penalty, and her penance should have been expedited, not waffled about for over 30 years.
When you read stuff like this it makes you even more anti-death penalty. Yes I have read exactly what she has done to her victim. What Pike needed was extreme psychotherapy in an institution, not the death penalty.