Actually, I had sympathy for her and I'm not even the kind of person who can find any understanding for people who commit heinous crimes. I'm all for capital punishment when they qualify for it (not every murderer can be considered for the death penalty.)
I still think what she did was wrong but for some reason felt sympathy for her anyway. It's probably because the author WASN'T judgmental when he wrote the scene.
The people who wrote about having no sympathy for Clayton Lockett - he of the botched execution in Oklahoma - climbed on a moral highhorse, and flat-out accused anybody who was for capital punishment of being insensitive, terrible people and implied we were inhumane.
And never freakin' mind that he buried his victim while she was still alive, then waited for her to die. That information was never even mentioned.
If he'd done that in the book, I probably would have rejected it there too and felt no sorrow whatsoever for her.
I don't know where people get off making such judgments on people they've never met. Especially when they've never seen the person face to face as opposed to on the Internet.