Posted on 04/23/2005 10:15:30 PM PDT by Irish Rose
It is one heck of an article. I share the author's anger that these types of people are allowed out of prison.
I will say one thing - it's not always the parents' fault that their children turn out to be child molesters and child killers.
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Whoever the author is - I nominate him/her for US Attorney General.
What's so wrong is that we fall back on depending on prison rapists to adminster punishment to those we often don't punish with death like they did to their innocent little victims.
Our prisons are infamous for in-house raping, and it just goes on. If you're a little 18 year-old white boy in prison for some stupid crime in which you didn't hurt anyone, you can look forward to having your body being traded around, and that extra punishment certainly does not fit the crime. But it goes on all the time, everybody knows and nobody cares. Still everyone hopes that we can depend on the prison rapists to really take care of child molesters/murderers when our justice system fails.
I agree with you.
I think that's an important issue, and a national disgrace.
People who deserve execution should be legally executed, not turned over to prison inmates.
And until such time as our laws specifically state that brutalization by other prisoners is a part of incarceration, we should protect prisoners against each other.
Our prison systems are failures because criminals go in bad, but they can come out much worse. Aryan Nation, Mexican Mafia, Black gangs, it usually divides into a racial jungle for survival.
Drawing and quartering is slow and messy, compared to a hanging, but equally effective and may serve as a deterrent.
I agree. They had better pray the police find them first.
Well, here's a true story for all of you..
My eighteen year old son was brutally murdered six years ago tonight.. The thirty-four year old killer was a repeat/released violent criminal.. He's now in jail for fifty-eight years to life, and must serve forty-eight before chance of getting out again..
A lot of people lost their best friend that night..G_d be with them..
I understand the sentiment, but a quick hanging would do just fine!
I think that depending on prison scum to meet out punishment our emasculated judicial system refused to enact is terrible.
We as a culture should set firm boundaries and be able to produce results.
I've walked that mile in your shoes 15 years ago this month when my 16 year old was brutally beaten to death by a recividist sociopath juvenile who was the local bully and drug dealer just to see what it felt like to kill. He did 14.5 of a 20 year plea bargained sentence, they released him this last June having maxed out his 'good behavior' time. We fought 6 parole hearings, the first 10 months after he was sentenced.
Over 12,000 people a year lose their lives to REPEAT offenders on parole or probation! An equal amount of people are raped by repeat offenders. parole & probation stats
The last time I checked the stats, over -> 40% <- of the felons on Death Row were out on parole, bail, or some other form of release from an *earlier* crime at the time that they committed the offense that earned them the death penalty...
Recidivisim in 1983 was 62%, in 1994 it was 68%. I doubt it was better reporting or increased arrest and incarceration that caused such a jump in the stats...this was under slick willie's watch when we had added 100,000 new COPS to the streets of a nation the size of ours (what a joke).
"He didn't do anything to them, but one of the murderers had just been released from Huntsville prison where he'd been repeatedly raped by black inmates and Byrd was black."
Gee, I wonder why the lamestream media didn't tell me that. Guess it was too "nuanced" for them.
Operating our prisons like we do is not only an offense against decency, it is stupid. "Hey, here's a good idea: let's take our worst people, make them a lot worse, then put them back on the streets."
I would quote Scripture here--but our High Court just overturned a death sentence for a murdering rapist because
a Christian jurist told his delegated peers of the moment that ,as a Christian, he had some questions about the death penalty. So another Christian brought a Bible out and
they consulted the supreme authoritative source for Truth.
And a majority on our Court claim it was Wrong to bring a Bible into a discussion over whether a murderer deserved be
treated as he treated others.The authority of our Law must
rest upon the authority of that Law which is Divine.(James
Wilson- "On the General Principles of Law and Obligation."
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