Chad Daybell sentenced to death

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BREAKING: Chad Daybell is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and girlfriend’s two youngest children in an Idaho doomsday plot. https://t.co/GXepfwhzi2
- The Associated Press (@AP) June 1, 2024

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[ionadelfina]

Is there a reason he’s getting death and she’s only getting multiple life sentences? Is he the one who actually did the deed?

[longlonglong12]

Lori and Chad orchestrated the murders of her children, but her brother Alex Cox (aka her personal hitman) is who physically murdered them. Alex also murdered Lori's husband and attempted to murder her niece's husband. (Alex died already, apparently of natural causes)

I think Chad did physically murder his wife, idk if that's the reason for him getting death and not her

[fauxkaren]

I think Chad did physically murder his wife, idk if that's the reason for him getting death and not her

i think this is probably it.

[rihaty]

I would think that has to be it, because it would be wild to me that there is a place where you can get the death penalty for anything other than first degree murder

[longlonglong12]

She was convicted of first degree murder

[mrscantelope]

I asked the same thing to my friend who has been following this case more and she said the death penalty was taken off the table because the prosecution was late turning over evidence to the defense team.

[futrefilmdirctr]

She went for a speedy trial and I think that was a part of why the death penalty was off the table. When you understand just how much data and information was sorted through for this trial, it makes sense they wouldn’t have been able to prepare in the same way for LVD.

[dazzled_eyes]

I believe she was given a deal to turn on him and provide evidence.

[longlonglong12]

She definitely didn't turn on him - she refused to let her attorneys put the blame on him in her trial and was visibly annoyed when they said something negative about Chad in their closing arguments.

I did just find the reasoning:
The death penalty should be dismissed because of media saturation, multiple discovery violations by the government, Vallow’s mental status and the inability of the state to effectively administer the death penalty should the jury decide to impose it, the defense motion said.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/us/lori-vallow-death-penalty-idaho-ruling/index.html

[skeetertuskin]

persecutors were pursuing death penalties in both cases but the jury was more lenient when it came to lori's verdict. perhaps they believed she was brainwashed by chad and wasn't physically involved in her kids' deaths or it could be simply the fact that statistically juries/judges have more difficulty sentencing women to death.

[theylezharold]

She's a mother and that's a big factor, despite what she did.

Mothers are given sainthood and nonstop abuse in the! U.S.