XPost: alt.activism.death-penalty, talk.politics, alt.law-enforcement   
   XPost: alt.true-crime   
   From: Avender@SpamMeNot.com   
      
   In alt.true-crime on Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:04:56 GMT, "Critter"   
    wrote:   
      
   >> >Both life in prison without parole, and the death penalty are vile   
   >> >punishments.  Everyone should be eligible for parole after ten years,   
   >> >but parole boards should consider the nature of the crimes comitted,   
   >> >as well as prison record and interviews, and murderers paroled after   
   >> >10 years would be few and far between, if any at all.   
   >>   
   >> I suppose if you were the parent of 5 children (including a mix of   
   >> infants, toddlers, juveniles & adolescents) and someone abducted them   
   >> all, subsequently raped them, skinned them alive, performed "surgery"   
   >> on them without anesthesia and posted pictures of their humiliation   
   >> where billions of people could see them, 10 years would seem fair to   
   >> you.  If this is true and you haven't already done so, may you never   
   >> have children.   
   >   
   >   
   >Quit babbling incoherently. No-one has ever committed such a crime in recent   
   >years, except for various governments. Most murders in the US are crimes of   
   >passion, or some other financial dispute or something like that. Most people   
   >who are murdered are killed by someone who knew them closely.   
   >   
   >Lets not be irrational about it.   
      
   Who's being irrational?  The original post didn't say "10 years only   
   for the most common crimes", it said to eliminate LWOP and the DP for   
   _all_ criminals.  That means that if anyone were to do what I said,   
   which it _does_ happen from time to time, 10 years would simply have   
   to be a proper, just punishment.  What part of that is inaccurate or   
   irrelevant?   
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