Kathleen Folbigg was considered country’s worst female serial killer and spent two decades in jail. Now she is free and has cleared her name
  • YottaDren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    86·
    11 months ago

    Holy cow. Meadow’s law sounds like it’s for punishing people with genetic diseases or the worst luck

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      11 months ago

      Meadow’s Law – a controversial and now discredited precept that three or more sudden infant deaths in one family were murders until proven otherwise.

      This is like the insidious logic applied in the name of terrorism and pedophilia — “innocent until proven guilty… unless 3 infants die… Then it’s zero-evidence auto-murder, and may god have mercy on your soul”.

      • brukernavn@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        11 months ago

        Meadow’s Law sounds like something a James Bond villain would say. Because it is. It’s based on this quote from Goldfinger:

        Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.

    • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      11 months ago

      Being burned for witchcraft seems worse.

      Excellent anti-death penalty here. A place like Texas would have already executed her.