That game turned truly dangerous on March 21, 1996, when Richard Sacchi Jr. killed an Eastchester cop, then took his own grandmother hostage in a twelve-hour armed standoff with police. As hostage negotiators tried to coax Sacchi from the family home, Pirro appeared on the evening news, saying she would consider seeking the death penalty against him. "She got up there for a few moments of news time," says the former assistant U.S. Attorney, "risking that this guy might hear it and kill his grandmother and go out in a blaze of glory." Sacchi, it turned out, had killed his grandmother and himself long before her remarks, but Pirro didn't know that.

I generally don't like anecdotal examples too much, but the rest of the article makes clear this is not isolated. She's the one that's getting set up to snipe at Hillary in '06.