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Should Adults Convicted As Teens And Serving Life Sentences Get a Second Chance?
Cowboy State Daily ^ | September 22, 2024 | Jen Kocher

Posted on 09/23/2024 12:24:23 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: 1Old Pro

Right.

Many pretend to be tough on crime, but what they’re really doing is supporting a system that is an industry for crime.


41 posted on 09/23/2024 1:18:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Red Badger

nope.

Next question?


42 posted on 09/23/2024 1:20:06 PM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Red Badger

Never give convicted murderers a second chance unless post-conviction evidence proves them innocent.


43 posted on 09/23/2024 1:22:09 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: taxcontrol

Yes, on the condition that those they have murdered are also restored to life.
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BINGO!


44 posted on 09/23/2024 1:23:12 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: reasonisfaith

Anyone who supports incarceration for victimless criminals
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Victimless crimes such as?


45 posted on 09/23/2024 1:27:13 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: Red Badger

No. looks like he found his life work in prison. good for him.

Also I believe those who are murderers and criminals and found to be innocent because of insanity, should be guilty and insane. That should not change the punishment. There is no guarantee that an insane person will not become an insane danger again. There are many insane people who DO NOT KILL or become violent. It is wrong not to hold criminals and killers who are insane guilty for their crimes.


46 posted on 09/23/2024 1:29:24 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Getready

Giving the perp a second chance, cheapens the lives of the victim.
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Absolutely true. And it also cheapens the lives of everyone else.


47 posted on 09/23/2024 1:30:00 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: reasonisfaith

After our system of law is restored, violent crime will drop massively.
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Unfortunately by the time that happens, it will probably not matter to anyone now living!


48 posted on 09/23/2024 1:33:36 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: Red Badger
The Cowboy State Daily headline is misleading. As noted in the article, while one is still a teenager at 19, the state of Wyoming defines youth as 18 and younger for the purpose of sentencing. Thus Hicks, at 19 was legally considered as an adult for sentencing for his crimes.

Second, Hicks was an accessory to two murders, which gets the same punishment as the person who phyically does the murders. (It's like a getaway driver at a bank robbery is charged with killing a bankguard just like the bankrobber who committed the murder.)

Given the two murders, Hicks and his accomplice should have been sentenced to be executed instead of being sentenced to steal oxygen for the rest of their lives in prison.

49 posted on 09/23/2024 1:44:14 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Red Badger

Adult crime, do the time.


50 posted on 09/23/2024 1:45:51 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Red Badger

Putting this guy away for life is an example of the system working.


51 posted on 09/23/2024 1:48:31 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

if we are saying that the human brain is not fully developed until well into your twenties
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LOL! Is that the latest “psychobabble” proffered by defense attorneys to absolve clients of responsibility for their criminal acts? Except when alleging self-defense, motive should be inadmissible in felony trials.


52 posted on 09/23/2024 1:49:55 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: Red Badger

"I was cured alright!"

53 posted on 09/23/2024 1:51:41 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: srmanuel

Both were tried as adults and given life sentences,
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End of story, OR SHOULD BE!


54 posted on 09/23/2024 1:51:59 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Prison is supposed to be punitive, not restorative. The only proper way to “rehabilitate” a prisoner is to make his life so awful that he will never want to go back.
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Hey, you better watch it because there’s probably members and lurkers on this site who will soil their britches when they read something so obviously true. GOOD WORK!


55 posted on 09/23/2024 2:04:27 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: reasonisfaith

We don’t see this, because we let the bad guys go.
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Also because professors in the “soft” sciences like sociology and psychology have managed to indoctrinate millions of gullible students to endorse the “country club” style of incarceration. This practice gives the criminals everything they want or need, eventually including their return to the streets on “parole”!


56 posted on 09/23/2024 2:16:28 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t think he cut his victims any breaks did he? Now he wants one?


57 posted on 09/23/2024 2:24:47 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: reasonisfaith

Many pretend to be tough on crime, but what they’re really doing is supporting a system that is an industry for crime.
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Of course! The entire criminal justice system is a giant money making operation designed to line the pockets of everyone in the system. That’s why the majority of cases frequently drag on, sometimes for years.


58 posted on 09/23/2024 2:28:04 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (A vote for Marxists Harris/Walz is a vote to destroy free countries around the world.)
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To: Red Badger

When it comes to being black (at least some kinda black in some mix) only the black part matters above party, all sense of logic or loyalty.

All of this in less than 2 months. Joy, enthusiasm, huge expectations and lies all rolled into a big MSM gaslighting ball. Too much to be believed, IMO.


59 posted on 09/23/2024 2:29:02 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Red Badger

Only if they agree to lifetime parole terms that say if they commit a felony on parole, they will receive the death penalty for that felony.


60 posted on 09/23/2024 2:29:47 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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