[CrazyIvan]

They’ve got a name for people like you H.I. That name is called “recidivism.” ... Not a pretty name, is it H.I.?

[Rennes Templar]

If this isn’t an argument for the death penalty, I don’t know what is.

What a waste.

[zedee]

Just take him out back and put him down like the violent dog he is.

[NonValueAdded]

He had 30 years to plan it.

[TexasCajun]

...64 yr old mother.

Pratt looks to be a stocky 300 lbs.

[Monty22002]

Another harmless pothead.

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...well, he went straight for two whole days. Think of it as a glass half-full...

[cincinnati65]

This is one of those things that transcends race, sex, or any other supposedly "discriminatory" argument.

There is no way an animal like should be able to violently murder TWO people, and serve full sentences for those murders and get out at 70 years old.

That's not justice.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Paging Claude Rains. There's gambling going on in this establishment.

[Celtic Conservative]

Those of us in the criminal justice field call situations like this “Job Security”. As long as human nature has moments like this, my job ain’t going nowhere.

CC

[Scrambler Bob]

in 1984 ... retrieved a lead pipe from his apartment
= = =

Lead, really?

Since I can remember such things (starting around 1953), I have never personally seen a lead pipe. I have seen lead caulking for cast iron sewage pipes.

Or was it a length of pipe, galvanized, steel, or even a steel bar?

Why does lead have to take the hit (no pun)?

Except for the game Clue.

[Blue Jays]

"...Pratt was 45 when he got out, and returned to the Atlantic City neighbourhood where his 64-year-old mother resided, the Press of Atlantic City reported. It was a quiet part of town, the kind of place where kids carved hearts around their initials in wet cement on the sidewalk..."

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What is that non-sequitur paragraph about Atlantic City, NJ supposed to mean, anyway?
My understanding is that Atlantic City, NJ is pretty much entirely a dumpy neighborhood.

[Talisker]

On the one hand, he’s guilty, both now and before.

On the other hand, if you take a mentally disturbed 15 year old and stick him in a maximum security prison for 30 years, he’s NOT going to come out sane.

[gunnut]

I would imagine that this guy was trouble in prison too. To serve almost a full if not the full 30 years sentence he was trouble. Even in the federal system most only serve 85% of their sentence.

[BuffaloJack]

If they’d hanged the SOB 30 years ago, this would not have happened.

[Robert DeLong]

Click Da Pic

[DoughtyOne]

[clee1]

This worthless POS is EXACTLY why we have the death penalty.

[HotKat]

I don’t get the point of this story published today. The crime took place in October of 2014. Also, how did the criminal get so fat? Moochle’s menu items should be served in prisons not schools.

[ifinnegan]

Impossible

MJ makes people mellow.