Poll: Should owners of dogs that kill people be prosecuted for murder?

[Nat]

In the case of Marjorie Knoller, I have no issue with her being convicted of murder.

(San Francisco, California) A woman whose dogs viciously attacked and killed her neighbor in the hallway of their apartment building seven years ago was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison.

Marjorie Knoller was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2001 mauling death of Dianne Whipple, but a judge later reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter and sentenced her in 2002 to a four-year prison ...

The case is the California’s first murder conviction connected to a dog mauling, prosecutors say.

The case turned into a tabloid sensation because of the viciousness of the attack – the dogs tore all of Whipple’s clothing from her body and left her with more than 70 bites – and the seemingly cavalier attitudes of Knoller and her law partner and husband, Robert Noel, who blamed Whipple for the attack.

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In denying Knoller’s plea for probation, Woolard noted that Knoller didn’t call 911 or otherwise try to help Whipple during the 10-minute attack. The judge said Knoller knew the dogs were dangerous, ignored numerous warnings to train them and hasn’t expressed remorse for the attack.

Also as a child growing up, there were days I walked home from school and found myself cornered by an aggressive-seeming, growling, salivating dog and I am still pissed at their owners. One time I had to go into somebody's screened-in porch to get away from somebody's doberman. I find it truly obnoxious when dog owners let their dogs loose and don't observe/control them. I find it criminal when they do so if their dogs are aggressive.