Thank you, katydid, and scmom.
It always deeply bothers me that media articles that appear near the time of execution for convicted murderers, seldom seem to mention much about the murder victim/s, or the circumstances of the heinous murders they are convicted of. Sometimes they don't even name the victim, and you have to google the murderer to find out who they killed. If the victim/s and the crimes are mentioned at all, it's brief and perfunctory- like the crime and the victims are an annoyance or an afterthought to the reporter. Or like the victims are something superficial, like naming the elementary school the murderer went to, or something similar.
It's often like the victims never existed. And the longer the murderers have been on death row, the less likely (IMO)it is that their victims will be discussed by the media. That's quite deliberate, I think. They want all the readers to forget all about the victims, so we will muster up some sympathy for the condemned-- and most especially if they were "model prisoners", or experienced fervent religious conversion.
Karla Faye Tucker, a pretty young woman in Texas, was also put to death for her crimes. She killed 2 people with a pickax while robbing them for car parts with her BF. She also "got religion" while in prison, and many thought her conversion was sincere.
If Kelly Gissendaner was a man, who had arranged for his girlfriend to stab his wife to death, there wouldn't be this much attention. The implication with Kelly Gissendaner is that she should not be executed because she was a woman, a mother, a model prisoner, and very religious during her imprisonment. The media (and others) seems to think those things should be sufficient to change the outcome of the crime, the trial, the conviction, the appeals, and the sentence. The media isn't, and hasn't been impartial in much of their reporting for a very long time (if they ever were!).
