Gypsy Rose Blanchard gives interview on eve of prison release

[mayjailer]

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Set to Be Freed From Prison, Regrets Murdering Mother: 'She Didn’t Deserve That' (Exclusive) https://t.co/hmO0jacofS
- People (@people) December 27, 2023

On Thursday, December 28, Gypsy Rose Blanchard will be released on parole from Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center, eight years after accepting a plea bargain to the

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[ahkna]

Honestly, this young woman's mother did need to die and she did deserve it. She was going to kill this girl.

[ginainabottle]

Yeah, maybe I'm just a bad person but I'm not here for any of the ~life is sacred~ bullshit. The world would definitely be a better place - and many innocent lives would be spared of trauma and pain - if some people indeed were dead.

[melancolour]

The issue comes that there will always be flaws in determining who "deserves" to die. So you either have to accept innocent/ not worthy to die people dying, or that innocent people staying alive is worth bad people living too.

[ahkna]

I don't condone murder, in most cases. And I'm fully against the death penalty but I am also truly ambivalent about abusers reaping what they've sown all at once. I'll support a victim killing their abuser 100 times out of 100.

In this specific case I genuinely can see no other way Gypsy would ever be free.

[ginainabottle]

I'm against the death penalty too, but in abuse cases I'm always reminded of that quote that says 'don't confuse the response of the oppressed with the violence of the oppressor' which to me essentially sums up situations of abuse. If you try to hurt someone it seems like a pretty reasonable outcome that they'd resort to violence to fight back.

[ahkna]

I think the majority of women in prison for murder are victims who killed their abuser and that's unacceptable to me.

[theylezharold]

The American "violence is never the answer" is such bullshit. Yes the fuck it is sometimes; namely, in self-defense.

[passionless_me]

Yep, and "violence is never the answer" is only applied to interpersonal violence, never state violence.

[momsapplelie]

I'm with you.

[swissbeauty23]

agreed. she was a horrific, premeditated abuser. she was a danger and an absolutely horrible person. fuck her.

[vibeology_e]

I feel awful that she had to carry that responsibility for the rest of her life, but Dee Dee was an abuser who did have to die.

[ahkna]

Totally, 100% agree