By: Dudley Sharp

Dudley Sharp
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:30:08 +0000

Death Penalty: Benefit to Families

Shelby Farah was brutally murdered in 2013. She was cashier, who gave all the money to a robber, did everything he said and then, he shot her 3 times, murdering her. He was a repeat offender.

Darlene Farah, Shelby’s mother, opposed the death penalty because of the long trial and appeals time.

How did she avoid the long trial and appeals time? The death penalty.

The case was resolved with a plea to life without parole (LWOP). No trial, no appeals.

There is, only, one way to get a plea to LWOP. You have to have the death penalty and it has to be a credible option in the case.

It was.

Without the death penalty, there would have been a long trial with LWOP being the maximum sanction, with the potential of lifetime appeals with LWOP.

If LWOP is the jurisdictions maximum sentence, the best plea deal would have been life with parole eligibility.