WI: Phoebe Prince Perpetrators Received the Death Penalty?

What if as a result of driving Phoebe Prince to suicide that the torturers of her were given the death penalty? What would be some possible consequences due to this decision?
 
I'd say there would be a lot of raised eyebrows, since the crimes involved in her case are not(as far as I know) ones that mandate the death penalty anywhere in the USA.
 
Uh, how would they be sentenced to death, since their crimes (even in the worst-case scenario), don't approach the death penalty level anywhere in the U.S.?

First of all, Massachusetts (where Phoebe Prince died) doesn't have the death penalty (Connecticut did, but abolished it a couple of years ago). Second of all, the prosecutor IOTL got a lot of criticism for (supposedly) overcharging the perpetrators, so the criticism here would be even worse, particularly since she used a penalty that isn't in effect in Massachusetts...
 
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Ok, manslaughter today is not an offense that has the death penalty, even in Texas, so that's eliminated as an option off the bat (and, as I've mentioned, Massachusetts doesn't have the death penalty as an option).

If they were charged with manslaughter, the prosecutor would get some heat for overcharging them, IMO; she got criticism for this IOTL and it'd be worse ITTL. What I see is them plea-bargaining it down to some lesser offense, since it'd be a little difficult to prove manslaughter at trial...
 
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