Ivette Gonzalez Davila to face the death penalty?

That's what The Seattle Times says in a report this morning:
Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Ed Murphy said Tuesday that prosecutors plan to file the murder charge, which has only two possible penalties in Washington state: death or life in prison without parole. Murphy said a decision on whether to seek the death penalty had not been made.
If the trial were in King County, where prosecuting attorneys rarely recommend the death penalty, Davila might be able to breathe a bit easier. But Pierce County is a whole different story: unlike King County, it lacks the urban backbone that is Seattle...which we'd guess makes our neighbors to the south far less educated and much more redneck. And from what we've seen over the years, the majority of death penalty supporters fall into one (or, more often than not, both) of the aforementioned groups.

UPDATE:

The Times
has updated their story with the latest: looks like Ms. Davila has been transfered to the custody of the U.S. Army, who will administer her court martial proceedings.
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Tazia - March 6, 2008 10:58 AM

The USA has not been executing soldiers for a while.

Despite a big heap of candidates at the top of the sicko horror jeeper creepers scale.

"She came out of the hut with her baby and Widmer shot her with an M16 and she fell. When she fell, she dropped the baby and then Widmer opened up on the baby with his M16 and killed the baby too,"

That looks like a 500 dollar fine.

Tazia

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