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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Shoplifter Sentenced To Life In Prison After Walmart Worker Dies

Last June, while attempting to heist a $348 TV from a Texas Walmart, a shoplifter knocked over a Walmart staffer, sending him to the hospital where he would die nine days later. Now that shoplifter has been sentenced to life in prison, even though he was never charged with the worker's death and the medical examiner determined the actual cause of death was end-stage liver cirrhosis.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Makes no sense to me , absolutely no sense at all!

Anonymous said...

Makes no sense to me , absolutely no sense at all!

September 17, 2011 1:01 PM

Makes no sense to me either. He wasn't charged with her death. And unless I missed something, he wasn't charged with any contact at all with the deceased.

Manslaughter would seem more reasonable. That is an easy conviction to get. But it doesn't carry a life sentence.

But this is Texass we are talking about so...