It says that women who commit behaviors outside of their epxected societal roles in society will receive more media coverage and be reacted to more harshly by society.
How about a woman who was an anti-illegal immigration activist?
Who was the ringleader of a hit squad?
And who shot a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter (both Americans)?
Yep, that is a great example of why she just got the death penalty!
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/22/arizona.double.killing/index.html?hpt=Sbin
This case deals with a lot of stuff that we have discussed in class other than just the "evil woman" hypothesis. For example, most jurys and judges are unlikely to sentence a woman to the death penalty. However, in this case she received the death penalty. Like many female offenders, the defendant, Forde, had a very troubled youth. This could have factored into her crime and attitude towards immigration. This case also has a narrative of the naive victim, in the child that was murdered. In my own personal opinion this woman does deserve the death penalty, clearly her hit squad should have done some more research on the not-so-immigrant Americans that they were looking for!
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