And, didn't SAY A FRIG'N THING!Not ONE WORD!
Cohen is simply wrong. A pervert or child abuser in prison for life will never again abuse a kid. That's enough deterrent right there to ensure passage of the increase in sentencing.
Cohen should test his "not a deterrent" theory by proposing a compromise: Let the current law remain in effect for killings occurring on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. A less-harsh penalty will apply for killings on Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends. If there's really NO deterrence, none at all, we won't see any difference after the amendment, will we?
The author is correct that this change won't deter many killers.
But that doesn't necessarily make it a bad idea.
Bears repeating.
Hmmm, sounds almost like the Dims' and MSM's take on how we ought to not fight the WOT.
well, his point about "tightening up the system administratively" translates into - child protection services is going to take kids away on a hair trigger. of course in the case of this poor girl, it would have been the right thing to do. But several years ago in NYC, the unthinkable happened in reverse - a child taken away from a mother, was killed by her foster mother and grandmother. imagine that horror, your parental right is taken away, and your child is removed and placed into the hands of foster parents who kill her.
my point is simply, there is a dangerous line here, its easy to say "take the kids away faster" - but we all know government is messed up, and will make many mistakes implementing such a policy, and some of those will also have deadly results.
if NY had a death penalty, this would be the time to use it.
Isn't justice for the victim important also?
"Envision an enraged parent or some other custodian of a child (the sort of person the law has in mind) who is abusing his or her ward and, while in the throes of a homicidal rage, pauses before delivering the fatal blow to consider the penalty."
Even if it saves the life of ONE innocent child, its worth it in my book.
Besides, our legal system seems to have totally divorced itself from any concepts of "justice". Its now about "rehabilitation" and "law" and "due process".
A legal system's primary objective should be Justice, and in this ours has totally failed. Where is there justice in permitting a killer to continue enjoying the gift of life when he/she has needlessly taken that gift from another? Who speaks for the dead victim in the Courts of Justice? The Prosecutor? Hardly. He represents the law which all too often is totally diosconnected from any concept of justice.
Justice demands that people who kill without justifiable reason, especially victims who are powerless to protect themselves, like little children, should forfiet their lives.
Its the only just process.
If anything can deter this kind of crime, it is only the knowledge that this kind of crime meets with swift, harsh punishment.
US Punishment is neither swift, nor harsh. As mad as I was while reading about this poor girl, I could not help thinking that this was only the most recent, not the last, time I would have to hear about it.
There will continue to be Nixmary Brown's and Lisa Steinberg's until the strength of the threat of punishment outweighs the want to commit the crime.
Child Welfare systems are civil service jobs. ALL civil services are a mess. Child Welfare should be made private enterprise. A Dream, I know, but...
IT'S ABOUT PUNISHMENT!
It is simply amazing to me to see people here and everywhere embrace this nonsense.
ML/NJ
He actually makes a pretty good argument for the death penalty.
Is this equal justice under the law? A kid's life is automatically more valuable than an adult's life? At what age does a person's life lose value and therefore only constitute a normal murder sentence from a killer?
Typical knee jerk reaction from the libs, "pass a new law!"