Posted on 08/17/2018 9:39:10 PM PDT by KingofZion
Eighteen people serving life without the possibility of parole sentences for murder in California will be set free after Gov. Jerry Brown agreed to commute their sentences.
The 18 are among 31 prisoners granted clemency and 36 ex-convicts pardoned by the governor on Friday.
***. Those who won commutations included Kimberly LaBore, who has served 20 years for participating in the slayings of two men in Santa Cruz while she was high on methamphetamines.
Among those who had their life-without-parole sentences commuted were Virgil Eugene Holt, who gunned down his supervisor at an Alameda County fast food restaurant in 1989 after the boss fired him, and Deryus Brown, who participated in a 2004 gang shooting in Sacramento County, when he was 19.
Other Bay Area killers who had their sentences commuted were David Bom Le, who in 2006 participated in a gang-related shooting in Alameda County, and Ronald George, who assisted his brother in killing a San Mateo County man over a drug debt in 1979.
Two other men were pardoned by Brown before they could be deported.
Phal Sok, of Los Angeles, served 15 years in state prison for an armed robbery he committed when he was 17. He was ordered deported to Cambodia in 2016, a place he hadn’t been to since his parents left in 1981, when he was an infant.
Sok has worked at a nonprofit organization that connects children to their incarcerated parents and as an organizer with the California Youth Justice Coalition.
Meanwhile, the Liberals are screaming that POTUS Trump should be Impeached if he Pardons Paul Manafort.
Of course, nobody has even hinted that it would happen, but why let facts get in the way of a good “what if” rant.
We are going to need to fence off California.
And was the ONLY supreme ever to be removed from the bench. Thankfully, I was able to vote for impeachment before I left California.
***bleeding heart governor ***
I remember many a governor of various states who, when their term of office ceased, would change all death penalties to life in prison.
We need people like Judge Issac Parker of Ft Smith, Arkansas, and Texas Judge Roy Bean back!
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One worries that this just might send a sick, "go for it" message to potential murderers and evil doers in the once-great-state of California.
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Maybe they can move to NM.
And “they” are worried about Trump maybe pardoning Manafort?
I can’t believe he’s letting all the other kindly murderers rot in jail!
Willie Horton lives!
Oddly I think short prison sentences of a few years of absolute hell are better. Prison should be something to be feared to the depths of ones psych. Working all day in brutal sun and heat and the bare necessities for life makes one not want to do crimes again least one go back to that hell hole.
Our present prison systems try to rehabilitate prisoners and it is a total failure. In fact our prisons are training grounds for crime. A hell hole will make criminals adjust their proclivity to crime in the future. Punishment must be short and brutal. The short part is very important as it gives hope to the criminal. The brutal part is also important as it give the criminal motive to not do bad again.
Once out of prison society needs to try and integrate the former prisoner into normal society. This is good for society and the prisoner as he will hopefully leave his past life of crime. If he repeats put him in prison for many many years toiling in the fields under the hot sun.
Old Man Brown should be forced to live with every criminal he pardons.
Link to article:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Jerry-Brown-pardons-56-ex-convicts-including-5-12795289.php
Jerry Brown is a hot mess.
I pretty much agree with you regarding LWP and the death penalty but for one small thing. Idiot leaders who commute the DP.
He did this in the seventies. Serial killers everywhere. He and Rose Bird declared war on the people of California. We are armed here in Arizona. In Nutland, they aren’t.
Good one.
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