Prosecutors seek death penalty in transgender teen's killing
Source: Associated Press
Updated 11:14 am, Tuesday, April 3, 2018
HOUSTON, Mo. (AP) Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for one of the suspects in the slaying of a transgender teenager in southwest Missouri.
Court records show a notice requesting the sentence for Andrew Vrba was filed Monday. Vrba is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Ally Steinfeld. Vrba's attorney declined comment ahead of a hearing Tuesday.
Investigators say Steinfeld was stabbed several times, including in the genitals. Her eyes were gouged out and her body was set on fire. Officials say the slaying wasn't a hate crime. Steinfeld's remains were found in September near Cabool.
One female suspect has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for second-degree murder, while another awaits a first-degree murder trial. A fourth suspect has pleaded not guilty to abandonment of a corpse.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-in-transgender-12801448.php
Initech
(100,104 posts)Otherwise any other form of punishment is too light.
icymist
(15,888 posts)WTF do the perpetrators have to do? Carve 'I hate you' in the belly?
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)My gawd, what an awful thing to do to someone.
radicalliberal
(907 posts). . . Her eyes were gouged out and her body was set on fire. Officials say the slaying wasn't a hate crime."
If that isn't a hate crime, I don't know what is.