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Murder of Pregnant Woman Could Bring Death Penalty
ABC News ^ | Jan. 03, 2014 | Ben Waldron

Posted on 01/04/2014 9:58:34 AM PST by nickcarraway

Detectives arrested Matthew Sowders, 28, of Harris County Thursday night, hours after a diving team recovered the body of his estranged wife Melissa Sowders, 26, from Cypress Creek, which is behind Sowder's home.

Melissa Sowders had been missing since Dec. 26 when she was last seen with her husband at a McDonald's restaurant.

"You're here on a charge of capital murder, and I believe it involves the murder of two people, including an unborn child," a court official stated when Sowders appeared at a probable cause hearing today.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: matthewsowders; melissasowders; texas

1 posted on 01/04/2014 9:58:34 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: All
When is Nidal Hasan going to bite it then?


2 posted on 01/04/2014 10:00:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: nickcarraway

It’s a life worthy of protection only if the mother wants to keep it, apparently. How arbitrary is that?


3 posted on 01/04/2014 10:05:35 AM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Why would the innocent victim of workplace violence be executed?


4 posted on 01/04/2014 10:07:23 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: andyk

Wasn’t even counted among the dead at Ft. Hood by our Gub’mint.


5 posted on 01/04/2014 10:09:21 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: nickcarraway

Not just anybody can kill an unborn child. It takes a planned parenthood approved M.D. (or whomever else they designate)


6 posted on 01/04/2014 10:20:44 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: nickcarraway

Do they even have a real death penalty, or just the illusion?


7 posted on 01/04/2014 10:28:03 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Damn ObamaCare, full speed ahead!)
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To: andyk

Indeed. . .

What if she was on the way to the abortion clinic and was killed. . .thereby killing the unborn baby as well. . .in some states, the criminal would be prosecuted for two murders even though she was on the way to murder the baby herself.

There is no such thing as liberal logic, just insanity.


8 posted on 01/04/2014 10:30:34 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Hulka

This has occurred to me too. I’ve heard of murders of pregnant women resulting in charges for killing the unborn baby also. But then, if the unborn baby is considered a human life, how then can we allow abortion? The laws and court rulings such as Roe Vs. Wade seem inconsistent regarding whether the unborn baby is actually a human life.


9 posted on 01/04/2014 10:57:49 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: nickcarraway

The creep filed for divorce from his wife in October but apparently did not want to end up paying alimony. Also, life insurance payouts & survivor benefits are also always a possibility in cases such as this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533647/Melissa-Sowders-Estranged-husband-charged-murder-ex-unborn-child-snapping-baby-wasnt-his.html

As a “bonus”, he also gets some street cred by killing a white person.


10 posted on 01/04/2014 11:00:42 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I’ve heard of murders of pregnant women resulting in charges for killing the unborn baby also. But then, if the unborn baby is considered a human life, how then can we allow abortion?

Each baby (even twins) has a unique identifiable DNA from the moment of conception.

11 posted on 01/04/2014 11:39:46 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Balding_Eagle
"Do they even have a real death penalty, or just the illusion?"

Harris county is in TX, the county that Houston is in.

12 posted on 01/04/2014 1:19:10 PM PST by matthew fuller (Pubbies need to replace Boehner with Gowdy if they want to survive.....)
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