To: Dog Gone
This guy is unrepentant and a career criminal. Nevertheless it is wrong to sentence someone to life in jail for stealing a cell phone and hitting someone. He deserves to go to jail, but the punishment does not fit the crime here, and I think that's unjust. Life in prison should be reserved for murderers, traitors, kidnappers, terrorists or rapists.
Many will disagree and that's okay.
To: Zack Nguyen
This guy is unrepentant and a career criminal. Nevertheless it is wrong to sentence someone to life in jail for stealing a cell phone and hitting someone. He deserves to go to jail, but the punishment does not fit the crime here, and I think that's unjust. Life in prison should be reserved for murderers, traitors, kidnappers, terrorists or rapists. Many will disagree and that's okay. Three strikes is one of the very few things to like about the CJ system. These were not victimless pot busts pumped up to felony prpportions. This guy is a career strong-arm robber - exactly the target this law was meant to hit. And the odds of his crime career being the product of bad luck, police intimidation, or faked evidence are nil.
To: Zack Nguyen
"Life in prison should be reserved for murderers, traitors, kidnappers, terrorists or rapists."
Naw. That's what hanging's for.
29 posted on
07/11/2005 1:39:46 PM PDT by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: Zack Nguyen
This guy is unrepentant and a career criminal. Nevertheless it is wrong to sentence someone to life in jail for stealing a cell phone and hitting someone. He deserves to go to jail, but the punishment does not fit the crime here, and I think that's unjust. Life in prison should be reserved for murderers, traitors, kidnappers, terrorists or rapists. The average convicted murderer in the United States, serves only about 9 years "actual prison time", rapists about 5 actual prison years.
33 posted on
07/11/2005 1:43:02 PM PDT by
SandyB
To: Zack Nguyen
Life in prison should be for murderers, rapists etc. I agree, but you left out habitual felons.
The guy admits that he is going to do what he want's to do, law or not. I don't want to be they next person that crosses his path when he want's some money for a cold malt liquor. I have not problem with the sentence.
39 posted on
07/11/2005 1:49:38 PM PDT by
NavVet
(“Benedict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
To: Zack Nguyen
Yer right, o' course. They shoulda hanged him. Its called "preventative care." If he ever gets loose, he's bound to kill someone.
60 posted on
07/11/2005 2:23:15 PM PDT by
Little Ray
(I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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