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Old 12-26-2011, 03:04 PM   #293
Slava
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
Sure there would, she's a woman, and executing a woman is going to create international backlash no matter what the crime is.

The problem in this case is the court system and the devaluation of a woman's testimony under their law.

If I remember right the evidence against her for her part in the death of her husband was pretty circumstantial, but given that a man's testimony weighs more then a woman's there's problems.
I'm fairly sure women have been executed in the US without abnormal backlash. The issue here is the gender issue as a whole and not specific to this case.
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