Posted on 05/08/2007 7:19:27 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
A man sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 1969 robbery and murder spree in Fulton County that claimed six lives — including that of a 12-year-old — will be paroled in a week, despite strong objections from one of the victims' brothers.
Carter Arnold Jr., now 55, was paroled in 2005 but failed to follow the rules of the prison aftercare home where he lived. He was sent back to prison about a year later, but is now scheduled to be released again on May 15, said Scheree Lipscomb, spokeswoman for the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole.
Doug DuLac, of metro Las Vegas, has fought to keep his brother's killer in prison. In September, he waged a one-man letter-writing and phone-calling campaign to keep Arnold behind bars when he was told Arnold was up for release again. The parole board at the time put off its decision. But DuLac was called last week by the parole board's victims' services unit and told Arnold will be released next Tuesday.
"It's unfair that someone who could methodically take away someone's life could be walking free," DuLac said in a telephone interview Monday. "It's incomprehensible to me."
Arnold was 16 when he and Sammy Haynes, then 17, went on a murderous rampage on the streets of Atlanta. Between June and September 1969, the teens shot and stabbed six people to death, including a housing project security guard, a 12-year-old boy and Daniel Arthur DuLac.
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I have a better idea: why not change the law to make a life sentence a life sentence so dirtbags like this never roam the streets again? I'm sure that was what the jury counted had in mind when they convicted him.
Thanks, I was about to ask you for it.
Besides, if we don’t parole them, how will they get to vote for the democrats in ‘08?
(sarcasm off)
prison aftercare home?
what ever.
sheesh
Can you tell me why there is so many odd letters/figures showing up in posts the last month.
I am seeing them all over the forum and very frequent.
How about sentencing them to 99 years without the possibility of parole. A separate sentence for each of the victims. Sentences to be served consecutively, not concurrently.
Forget “life” sentences. The PC language manglers emasculated that word a generation ago.
to whom does this make sense?
It’s true what they say - life is short...
I see the AJC doesn’t feel the need to remember the 12 year old boy’s name.
Given the choice between Life-means-Life inprisonment and the Death Penalty, a lot of peole will come down in favor of life in prison. The reason the Death Penalty is so popular is because people know full well that Life Imprisonment can really mean as few as seven years behind bars.
Something about the software, and it comes and goes. John is aware of it.
How about a long drop from a short rope?
There is also a poll with the article:
Should triple murderer Carter Arnold Jr. get parole?
currently at 94.37% saying no.
That’s the problem with life sentences — they are not necessarily for life. Even “life without parole” — how do we know that sometime down the road, some judge will commute the sentence and free the s-o-b?
Personally, for most murders, I would rather see a life term of between the date of sentencing and no more than a week later when the crumbum is hanged. We keep far too many of these criminals alive and we shouldn’t.
I saw In Cold Blood over the weekend.
Perry Smith hasn't killed anyone since they hanged him. I'd bet he would have killed again if he had received a "life" sentence.
Thanks figured he was after this long of time.
Hadn’t seen any other comments from other posters.
Read the book In Cold Blood many years ago and saw the movie.
In those days, they didn’t have any misgivings about giving these lowlifes the punishment they deserved.
Now, many states are suspending death sentences until they review every death case. A good possibility that many of these sentences will be commuted to life or less. In PA, such a review is taking place. That’s funny because here in PA, we can take more than 20 years to actually carry out the sentence. Some death row inmates in PA die of old age.
Just so wrong.
(sarcasm off)
Um, I don't consider that statement to be sarcasm. Remember, rapist, murderers, other felons, and the dead are core Democra# voters (and in some cases party leaders). That's why some Dems are constantly trying to pass laws to allow more of these scum to vote, even from prison.
/not even a little sarc
Hey AJC, hey parole board! Got a child to donate? Who’s is it?!
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