I noticed this today on CNN:
Rafael Robb, once a tenured economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faces a prison sentence of no more than seven years for bludgeoning his wife, Ellen, on December 22.
Can someone explain to me how all this works? How can intentional murder in some cases carry the death penalty but in other cases be limited to just seven years? I mean, I get how pre-meditation and an intent to willfully do harm to someone is different than killing someone in the heat of an argument. But 7 years? I’ve heard of people on marijuana convictions serving longer under 3 strikes in California.
If this guy was anything other than a upper-middle class white professor, would he still have gotten a maximum of 7 years for murdering his wife?
I don’t know anything about the law but this is outrageous… 7 years for murdering your wife? So I can just go kill anyone I want as long as I’m mad and white? Ridiculous.
Why so little time in prison? Didn’t his man murder the mother of his child? The woman who dedicated her life to this man & their family? He says he knows his daughter “liked” her mother – no she LOVED her mom & he selfishly took that woman’s life just because he felt like it!! Drug dealers get more time in prison than this – our so called justice system has failed us once again!