Are there (and/or should there be) special death penalty rules for female murderers?

... as deserving of execution as male murderers. James Acker, a criminal justice professor at the State University of New York at Albany, describes the "competing theories" this way. One is that "this is about chivalry, where we're all bending over ...

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