You Can Kill Me Now! (This is dark humor)

So my friend and I were watching TV; the Investigation Discovery Channel. We watched two episodes back to back. In the first episode a 50 year old woman was bludgeoned to death by her husband. She was so severely beaten that the investigators thought that she had been shot in the face with a shotgun. Well the autopsy showed that she had NOT been shot in the face simply severely beaten. When all was said and done the husband was found guilty and his punishment was 5-10 years, and he gets out this year; 2012!

Second episode. A pretty young girl was strangled and raped; she's in her early 20s. Her body was found dead under some bushes. After a year or more of investigation her killer was caught and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

My friend turned to me and said: " So you can kill an ugly old and pretty much get away with it, and hardly serve any time if you do get caught; but if you murder a young and pretty girl you'll get the death penalty." I couldn't help but think that his thinking was soooooo true. Of course I think that if you're 50+ a person should have to serve at the most 30 years since the life expectancy on the average is 80!