Give it up, she confessed to using a car to block the victims into an allyway where one of them was murdered. She also punched one of the victims in the face and stole her necklace. If someone dies while you are committing a separate felony crime that is called felony-murder and it is punishable by death in Ohio. You…

You are very emotionally detached from the concept of a loved one being viciously murdered. This 16-year-old girl (the REAL victim of this crime) will never go home again, her parents and grandparents will never get to kiss her goodnight, all because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her life was taken for…

From the above article: “One victim states that Patterson punched her in the face and took her necklace.”. So saying “all the victims” say she wasnt involved is innacurate, she also admits she picked up the necklace and ran.

You seem like a really special person, maybe you should apply to be a criminal advocate. Unrepetant felony murderers like Tyra Patterson who refuse to take responsibility for their crimes need someone like you advocating for them so zealously.

Why would a television series need to be made about someone who admits they participated in the comission of a felony-murder? What exactly is there to prove/disprove? Did you even read the article?

What the hell are you even saying? Do you actually think someone convicted of felony murder should not be incarcerated? She wasn’t convicted of selling loose cigars, she was convicted of participating in an armed robbery which led to an innocent young woman’s murder.

Do you think her gender played a role in her sentence also? I’m pretty sure a man convicted of the same crime would be on death row instead of going before the parole board.

Why is defending convicted murderers/rapists because it fits neatly into a preferred brand of identity politics the ledge that Jezebel chooses to die on? First the murderer-rapist trans woman of color who didn’t like her prison digs, and now this? Someone was killed during the commission of a felony crime that this…