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8. You can ask Attorney General Holder why not tougher charges since these were federal cases brought

Reply to Kip Humphrey (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 9, 2015, 08:44 PM

Apr 2015

Department of Justice - not state cases. At first I wondered about the Judge, but the attached article reported that both women received the maximum allowed under their plea agreement with the Department of Justice. It also stated that six men received sentences from 4 to 50 years.

I don't see any information on why the administration made these plea agreements.

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2 women sentenced in slaying of Mississippi black man [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2015 OP

Why not longer in prison? madamvlb Apr 2015 #1

Where are the life sentences??? ...Oh yeah, they're white and the victim? He was black, of course. Kip Humphrey Apr 2015 #3

You can ask Attorney General Holder why not tougher charges since these were federal cases brought 24601 Apr 2015 #8

No justice here, not even 15 years between them both. SummerSnow Apr 2015 #2

Deryl Dedmon, two others sentenced from 7-50 years in hate crime freshwest Apr 2015 #6

(see #8) Precisely to the contrary, you did not get this from Mississippi at all. The only ones you 24601 Apr 2015 #10

So, let me get this right heaven05 Apr 2015 #4

They should have gotten life. 840high Apr 2015 #5

8 and 5 years? progressoid Apr 2015 #7

These two deserved more time than this. Much more time. herding cats Apr 2015 #9

Depraved, hateful garbage like these two and their sick friends tabasco Apr 2015 #11

Mississippi has the death penalty. Had the murderers been black and the victim, white, they would Liberal_Stalwart71 Apr 2015 #12

they'll be great fox news casters olddots Apr 2015 #13

We would have to know why Federal prosecutors offered the two of them a plea deal Lurks Often Apr 2015 #14

grave miscarriage of justice indicative of institutional racism cali Apr 2015 #15