XPost: alt.activism.death-penalty, talk.politics, alt.law-enforcement   
   XPost: alt.true-crime   
   From: Barking@The.Moon   
      
   "Bill, The Avender"  wrote in message   
   news:3fccb320.130559984@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...   
   > 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?   
      
      
   10 years is very light for murder. I will not argue that. But I also think   
   that the 3 strikes laws can be very misapplied.   
      
   Seems that there is one thing that almost everyone can agree on - and that   
   is that sentencing is not what we'd like it to be.   
      
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