So what makes people think we have the advanced psychological and spiritual assessment certainty to determine this monster can ever be trusted without a custodian? [More]
27 years, and then we set him free to walk among us, with access to things like knives and gasoline?
Would we cage a man-eating lion, and then at some arbitrary point decide it's time to set it loose on a playground?
Saturday, August 30, 2014
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The felon sentenced was already in prison , barely, when his DNA was matched.
He's 48 years old, so he'll be in prison until age 75, whereupon he'll get to serve the remainder of his five year sentence in state prison, putting him near to 79 years old.
While I'd love for him to get more justice, at the end of a rope, what he did get may suffice.
Exactly. David, mind if I quote your lion analogy?
Goes with the "gun free zones." These predators know perfectly well where they will find helpless victims.
The other sad thing is that this sick monster will come out of prison an even more evil and destructive force. Hopefully, he'll make a mistake choosing a victim and be taken out by someone who IS able and willing to defend themselves.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/photogallery/senior-moments.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042094/96-year-old-woman-Floridas-oldest-murder-suspect-shooting-nephew-dead.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/20/murder-charge-still-pending-against-woman-at-102/11113511/
http://www.3news.co.nz/world/australias-oldest-murder-accused-to-stand-trial-2011040319
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-10-28/news/li-398_1_edward-harrell
That took longer to code for comments than it did to find.
Looking at that Happy Land mass-murder-by-fire: the person convicted was sentenced to 4,350 years in prison. (Yes, four thousand, three hundred and fifty years.)
He will be eligible for parole in 2015.
Wait, what?
David, I'm not an advocate of life sentences. If someone needs a life sentence, they need to swing.
I'm a strong advocate of a return to public hangings. We had a much more safe civilization when that was a punishment.
I'm not happy with the sentence he received, I can only hope it works to keep him locked up until he perishes naturally.
Yes, there is a risk to us that it won't work that way, hence my advocacy for the above.
I have not advocated for any sentence, life or death. I have merely observed, consistently and for years, that if you can't trust someone with a gun, you can't trust him without a custodian.
That is an irrefutable truth. How people deal with that truth is another matter altogether.
I have a proposal for doing just that I need to write down some day. Too many details and explanations to just give a Cliffs Notes overview...
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