Didn Janet Danahey get what she deserved?
It depends on who you ask. NCCFMRC contends that she never should have been charged with first-degree murder since no one, including the prosecutor and the judge, claim she intended to kill anyone. She had no prior record, which seriously calls into question why she was prosecuted under North Carolina’s harshest murder law. Had she been charged and convicted of arson plus manslaughter, she would not be serving a life sentence without parole, nor would she have faced the death penalty but still could have been sentenced to between about 20 and 60+ years. It is interesting to note that the psychopathic killer Charles Manson comes up for parole every seven years, and Janet never will.
