parole sentences.

If there were any justice… Mann and White are just as bad as any garden-variety terrorist killing in the name of jihad.

US code does include this in the definition:

...the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

These acts not only intend to deprive these people of their liberty and lives, but do, usually, intend to serve as a "warning" to others of the civil population. Warning not to be LGBGQ or face the consequences. That sure seems to fall under the meaning of B, i.

This is that 1%.

is the same as the age difference between the two adult victims. I wonder if that's just a coincidence or maybe a clue of some kind.

Dumped boyfriend/husband who couldn't deal with ex-girlfriend/wife being a lesbian and raising the kids in a same-sex household?

Catching them so quickly suggests a family connection rather than a random stranger.

Probably made her watch the children and her partner die before her.

ultimate cruelty....for wounded male pride.

Good 'Christian' men who believe in death to homosexuals - from the Bible?

Sarcasm? Can't be sure.

Even if they were of another faith, we have Christians here who will rationalize the killings.

Sick!

Can we please wait for a motive?

Let the general population deal with them. Those who rape or kill kids are at the bottom of the prison food chain. Even the hard core lifers have standards and families.

One of Myers’ family members told The Daily Beast that Mells was buddies with Mann, who is now accused of butchering her and her girlfriend’s family.

“I never seen him before a day in my life, neither of them,” Shanta Myers' nephew Khalif Coleman said. “But some of my family members recognize him as Brandi’s friend. He supposedly always hung out with her.”



https://www.thedailybeast.com/murder-suspect-in-troy-new-york-quadruple-slaying-was-friends-with-victim-family-member-says?ref=home

Updated 6:30 pm, Saturday, December 30, 2017

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Two men were arrested Saturday on murder charges in the deaths of two women and two children who were found dead in their upstate New York apartment.

Justin Mann and James White were arrested in their hometown, Schenectady, and pleaded not guilty in Troy City Court.

According to the Times Union , Troy Police Chief John Tedesco said one of the defendants knew one of the victims. He declined to elaborate.

Information given in court said the killings took place at about 9 p.m., Dec. 21. It wasn't until Tuesday, five days later, that a property manager found 36-year-old Shanta Myers; her children, 11-year-old Jeremiah Myers and 5-year-old Shanise Myers; and 22-year-old Brandi Mells in a basement apartment along the Hudson River, just north of Albany. Meyers and Mells became engaged earlier this year, Mells' cousin, Sharonda Bennett, told the newspaper.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Police-2-suspects-arrested-in-New-York-quadruple-12463427.php

I am not disputing the horror of the crime, but the reason for it is not yet clear.