XPost: alt.activism.death-penalty, talk.politics, alt.law-enforcement   
   XPost: alt.true-crime   
   From: swatcop@tampabay.rr.nospam   
      
   "under_the_bridge"  wrote in message   
   news:cd86b123.0311261850.647d6f@posting.google.com...   
   > 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.   
   >   
   (snip)   
   >   
   Hmmm...   Seems to me like a lot of other countries who use alternate means   
   of discipline have a much lower crime rate than the U.S. and they're not   
   spending billions of dollars each year on housing/feeding criminals.   
      
   Why should someone get "life" in prison? I mean, think about it - they've   
   obviously been found guilty of a crime so awful that they're not "allowed to   
   play" anymore, right? They're never to be allowed outside of a prison again.   
   Personally, I don't think I should be paying to feed/house him with my tax   
   dollars for the next 30 years, nor should anyone else pay for his ass to   
   eat, sleep, or do whatever it is he does in prison.   
      
   What about other countries that utilize "on the spot" justice? You steal   
   something, they cut your hand off. You kill someone, they kill you. I hear   
   the crime rate is MUCH lower there. No whining defense attorneys crying that   
   their client's jail cell is not climate controlled or that his client is   
   allergic to the soap used to launder his prison outfit. Gimme' a friggin'   
   break. I think we're much too leniant. Years of appeal hearings for these   
   morons to try and get off on technicalities and such. The system is   
   functional to a degree, but it needs to be "tweaked" a little to make the   
   criminals the criminals, not the victims.   
      
   I'll keep on locking these idiots up, there's no question about that. What   
   the system does with them after that is out of my hands. If/when they get   
   out, and if they screw up again, I'll be there to put them away again.   
   Pretty repetitive and stupid, if you ask me. Not to mention how much $$$ we   
   would've saved if they had been properly disciplined the first time around.   
   Oh, well...    'Till next time...   
   --   
   <-= swatcop =->   
      
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