Posted on 07/10/2019 5:29:57 AM PDT by grundle
In March 1999, a guy named Keith L. Burley Jr., of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, used a gun to shoot and kill someone while Burley was committing an armed robbery.
Burley was arrested, charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
In March 2019, the parole board decided to let Burley out of prison on parole.
Four months later, Burley used a knife to stab an eight-year-old boy to death.
Other children were inside the home where the stabbing took place, and saw the stabbing as it happened.
Burley was not the biological father of the child that he murdered.
Burley was dating the child’s mother at the time that Burley murdered the child.
In my opinion, the people who voted to give parole to Burley should be charged as accessories to the child’s murder.
Parole board members are real good at playing craps with the lives of others.
The Parole Boards should be renamed as the non-Parole Board.
Their focus is totally backward.
It's satisfying to be big-hearted when someone else pays the price for your virtuousness and magnanimity.
I will never understand how someone killing someone for a few bucks in their wallet is not worse than the crazy killers who get the death penalty. The one shooting for the few bucks has no regard for human life. Both are equally dangerous except one gets out after 10 years.
“Parole board members are real good at playing craps with the lives of others.”
The flaw in your analogy is that one can lose at the craps tables. Parole Board members have zero stake in the game. They neither win nor lose no matter what they decide.
That needs to change. PB members need to be held personally responsible when they **** up.
L
Here’s a somewhat similar Florida Man story...
Lawrence Bernard “Larry” Singleton (July 28, 1927 – December 28, 2001) was an American criminal known for perpetrating an infamous rape and mutilation of an adolescent hitch-hiker, Mary Vincent, in California in 1978. He brutally raped Vincent and cut off her arms and left her to die in a ditch off the Interstate 5 in Del Puerto Canyon, California. Vincent managed to crawl up to safety and later acted as a key witness against the rapist. Released from prison on good behavior from his 14-year, 8 month sentence, he went on to murder Roxanne Hayes. On February 19, 1997, Singleton stabbed Hayes in his new home. The police found the nude rapist covered in blood as he stood over the mutilated body of Roxanne Hays. The victim was a mother of three from Tampa, Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Singleton
Look, it’s necessary for society to take some risks in order for ...
for what?
So that a convict can get out of jail early? After having been sentenced after a jury carefully considered his guilt, the mitigating and aggravating circumstances, the injury and pain he caused.
For what? What does society gain from the early release of these people? What is made better by doing so?
Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims. Women, LGB, Transgenders are all designated victim groups.
Children never are, for some reason.
I remember that case very clearly, 41 years after hearing about it on the news.
Singleton was sentenced to death in Florida, but died of natural causes in prison, at the age of 74.
This is no different than the congress people and city officials who are allowing illegals into this country and remain in this country only to cause disease, rape, murder, child trafficking, etc.
“What does society gain from the early release of these people?“
An empty cell for the next miscreant who comes down the pipe, mostly.
One of my own brothers was recently paroled from a 4 year sentence for embezzlement. He and his wife stole over $100,000 from a small church. It took them 5 years to do it before they were caught. They were sentenced about this time last year. They’re both out on parole already.
I personally wrote to the Parole Board objecting to his early release. My own brother.
He will be back in before too long. We all know it. But this time we are all also certain the crime will be worse.
L
“dating “
Translation. Having occasional sex with, as a bull does in the barnyard with random cows.
“Children never are, for some reason.”
Keep your eye on the Epstein case. You’re going to find out why children are not a protected group.
Children = Livestock
Just wait and see. You’re not going to believe it.
In 1943 my great grandfather was shot to death by a former hired hand, in front of my great grandmother (and their “house boy”) as they returned to their farm...she ran and successfully hid from him, the house boy ran for help. The 70 year old murderer got 2 (TWO) Years.
Anyways, one call to the probation officer I knew, and we found out that they were lying. Conditions: no weapons or anything that can launch a projectile or has a trigger....
Probation officer said said, "They can't even have a nerf gun. I'll send out the Sheriff".
Yep. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
True.
The mother is just as culpable. What kind of idiot dates a convicted murderer and gives him access to her children?
I was talking to a prison guard at the gym. A former prisoner was in the news as he had murdered a stranger within hours of release. The guard knew him. He said he was among the prisoners the guards were warned to never turn their backs on. He said the man was too dangerous to release, but he had served his time and there was no other choice.
This prison was set up as a halfway house between prison and release in an effort to reduce recidivism. (Training programs, lectures, etc.) I asked the guard if it was working and he said, “no.”
“Yep. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
My brother has a long and storied criminal history. When my grandfather died he left me two guns. One was a Kentucky rifle in .36 caliber. Beautiful old piece. The other was a Marlin 39A Golden. He bought it the year I was born and it was the first thing I ever fired. I was about 8.
Dad had them under the bed and was going to take them for insurance appraisals before he turned them over to me.
Yep, scumball brother and a friend of his broke into the home of his own parents and stole both of them. His footprints went right up to their bedroom window. Caught him burning his shoes in a garbage can.
I wanted to pound the life out of him. Truth be told it wouldn’t take much for me to do it to this very day. The accomplice has since straightened his life out and admitted things and asked me to forgive him for the part he played in it. Even offered some money to help me replace them.
I gave the forgiveness and declined the money. He doesn’t have the means to come up with the kind of scratch it would take to replace them. Scumball brother denies it still. The only people in the family who will even speak to him are mom and dad. None of the brothers will give him the time of day.
Nor would we cross the street to p*** on him if he were on fire.
The only reason the State Of Illinois paroled him was that they don’t want to “waste” the cell on a fat, middle aged loser who didn’t shoot a nine year old girl.
He will **** up again, though. And he will be right back inside where he belongs.
L
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