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Casey Anthony Acquitted But 11 Women on Death Row

The jury in Casey Anthony murder trial took 10 hours and 40 minutes to decide that the accused did not kill 2-year-old Caylee Anthony three years ago.

In a dramatic and controversial conclusion to a legal battle that had the nation riveted, the jury pronounced that Casey Anthony was not guilty of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter. She was found guilty only in four counts relating to lying about the child as missing.

According to legal experts, this was a verdict very few people who watched the trial had expected. Legal analyst Dan Abrams told ABC News that the jury focused particularly on very minute points of evidence, as it often happens in high profile cases. In this case there was no physical evidence, no trace of blood and no confession.

Some have raised the question whether the Jury would have let them go if they were Black. If she were black teenage single mother, then she would have been convicted. But plenty of other whites who killed their children are also convicted.

Diane Downs was just as sensational and unsympathetic; who shot her three children, killing one, and then told police a stranger had attempted to carjack her and had shot the children. She was sentenced to life in prison.

But according to statistics from deathpenaltyinfo.org, there are some interesting facts about death sentences:

* A total of 167 death sentences have been imposed upon female offenders from 1973 through late-2010, which is just 2 percent of all death sentences during the time period.

* Of the 167 death sentences imposed since 1973, only 55 women remained under sentences of death in eighteen states and under federal jurisdiction as of late 2010, which comprise only 1.7 percent of the approximately 3,261 persons currently on death row.

* Currently on death row are 24 women who killed their husbands or boyfriends, and another 11 women who killed their children. One other woman killed both her husband and her children, and three other women killed a young niece, nephew, or child in their care. These 29 women account for over half of the 55 women now on death row.

* Out of 167, white offenders scored 110 and Black offenders scored 42 only, while Latin offenders and America Indian offenders were 11 and 4 respectively.

* The annual death sentencing rate for female offenders during the last decade has averaged four per year.

*The most recent execution of a female offender was that of Teresa Lewis in Virginia on September 23, 2010.

Do you think that many Feminists distort family violence ...

I don’t think that the problem is so much with statistics being distorted as with the societal expectation of men to be the strong ones, to never outwardly express weakness for the sake of his family and his own pride. It is that very mentality that keeps so many men who are raped or physically abused from reporting it; they feel that because they are men it is their fault for alloing themselves to be raped or physically abused and they are so humiliated by the fact that they were weak enough to be overpowered and raped or physically abused that they don’t dare report it for fear of what others may think. Unfortunately becasue of the same mentality people assume that because men who are raped or physically abused don’t publicize the fact that they were raped that only women get raped or physically abused.

*Edit* Well said Soldier4Christ. That’s also true.

To keep my answer clear and clean cut – feminist organisations do indeed marginalize female abuse.

They are happy to note that a woman is likely to experience d/v some 30 times before reporting it or seeking help, but make no mention that men encountering violence have their own reasons for not being able to seek help.

Some examples being that when men call a help line for abused, they are redirected by sexists to the ‘abusers help line’ instead of ‘victims help line’. The police have repeatedly demonstrated that they do NOT care about male victims of d/v.

Oh, and guess which political group most commonly ‘educate’ the police departments on talks about d/v? That’s right – feminist groups.

Note also that d/v does NOT include violence against children – perhaps this is because women are the primary abusers of children, not men – though feminist groups suggest otherwise despite several decades of research reflecting the same & predictable outcome time after time; bio father is the safest person a child can be with and on the contrary, bio mother is the most likely abuser of a child.

I think your “statistics” are somewhat distorted.

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