Last Update on the Left - Episode 15 - Casey Anthony Revisited

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The episode briefly detours into the Menendez brothers case, with the hosts debating whether their potential resentencing is just. Henry Zebrowski takes the hardest position: murder should remain the uncrossable line, regardless of what abuse was suffered, because he knows many abuse survivors who never killed anyone. Ed Larson points out that even if the father's abuse was genuine, the brothers still shot their mother in the face — a woman who was arguably also a victim trapped in the same abusive dynamic. Marcus Parks says he fully believes the abuse occurred but isn't sure whether the brothers genuinely feared for their lives. The tangent circles back to Casey Anthony: unlike the Menendez case, Casey's parents are alive and able to challenge her accusations, which they did — by taking and passing polygraph tests.