https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heather-mack-bail-american-woman-convicted-suitcase-murder-mother-indonesia-freed/

I'm curious about this case as an American citizen, Heather Mack, murdered another American citizen, Mack's mom, in Indonesia. Mack served out her sentence in Indo and is getting deported to the US.

Will she get arrested for murder as soon as she lands back in the US?

In the case of the man from Alabama who murdered his wife on their honeymoon in Australia, he did get tried in the USA once the Australian authorities were done with him.
https://www.mamamia.com.au/tina-watson-death/

Frankly, it probably depends on if anybody cares about the deceased or not. Obviously the family of the murdered bride from Alabama cared greatly and saw to it that the husband was prosecuted.

Trying to prosecute somebody again for the same crime seems excessive,

Thats where I'm at.

If they served some kind of sentence, that should be it.

We shouldn't be using the government in this manner.

We got enough problems without prosecuting a mfer twice.

Remember seeing this. Absolute stone cold sociopath. Murdered her for insurance money as I recalled. Some people are wired wrong and will never change. He is the reason we have the death penalty. Once a dog is rabid, you can't " Unrabid " it. So you have to kill it. Same with sociopaths like this dude.

I believe her boyfriend did the actual killing, but the two of them planned this trip with the goal of killing the mother. With as many laws as there are in this country, I'm sure they could charge her with something related to traveling to commit the crime.

I didn't read the link but I'm familiar with this case already.

I tend to think that whatever time she spent in an Indonesian jail is worse than anything we could do to her short of the death penalty. Additionally, conviction in a foreign court where the accused would have none of the rights afforded to them here, and as such no guarantee of a fair trial may not mean she was automatically guilty.

That said, I can see prosecuting her here because even though she was convicted in Indonesia, I don't think that makes her a felon here, meaning her record is clean snd she could still vote, own a gun, etc. and I'm betting nothing shows up on a background check by a future potential employer. You could prosecute her and give her time served.

kb2001 said:

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I believe her boyfriend did the actual killing, but the two of them planned this trip with the goal of killing the mother. With as many laws as there are in this country, I'm sure they could charge her with something related to traveling to commit the crime.

I didn't read the link but I'm familiar with this case already.

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Conspiracy to commit murder, and probably murder, if any was planned here. Would also likely be a federal crime because they went across international/state borders to do it. In theory, they could be prosecuted 3 times.

pagerman @ work said:

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I tend to think that whatever time she spent in an Indonesian jail is worse than anything we could do to her short of the death penalty. Additionally, conviction in a foreign court where the accused would have none of the rights afforded to them here, and as such no guarantee of a fair trial may not mean she was automatically guilty.

That said, I can see prosecuting her here because even though she was convicted in Indonesia, I don't think that makes her a felon here, meaning her record is clean snd she could still vote, own a gun, etc. and I'm betting nothing shows up on a background check by a future potential employer. You could prosecute her and give her time served.

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Did you actually read the article? Sounds like easy time to me