Posted on 03/08/2011 1:58:11 PM PST by Borges
Outstanding post. That should be a tagline!
Regards,
TS
1. You can’t know he’s unrepentant. Do you know this guy personally? Have you had the opportunity to speak to him and determine his lack of repentance? You’re stating something as fact that you can’t possibly know.
2. He could have been in prison longer, but the father accepted a plea deal. He confessed to the murder and was sentenced to 40 years. There are flaws with the court system, obviously, but I for one respect the institution far enough to be prepared to live with the costs that come from such a system. One of those costs is that people who have done reprehensible things will be released once they have served their time. If you’d rather live somewhere with a vastly stricter penal code, I’m sure you can go into the petroleum industry and move to Saudi Arabia.
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
Mark 11:25
Shouldn't need more than a few hundred volunteers.
But what about the rule of law?Yes, the same law that has kept this piece of sh!t alive all these years.I hope the father carves the scumbags heart out and lets him eat it.I can only imagine the rage the father has felt all these years.Dont kid yourselves people, there are a lot of us fathers that would do the same thing and the chickenshit laws be damned.
Forgiveness and salvation are the Lord’s choice. This man is simply stating that he will arrange the meeting for his sons killer.
“...but it would work much better as a complete surprise.”
Only if making the parolee live the rest of his life (however short) in dread is not part of the dad’s plan.
There's not a jury anywhere that would convict him of more than a weapons violation.
The article doesn't give the father's age but doing a little math, the son would be 41 years old, if still alive. This puts the father at 60+ years old. A 30 year sentence and life in prison are about the same. Does N.Y. even have a death penalty?
Besides, all the father would need on his jury would be just one person like you or me and he gets off with a light sentence.
you apparently have no children. But if you do, I feel very sorry for them.
The plea deal should have been a choice between death and life imprisonment without parole. FFS he tried to kill another boy a few years after he killed a 5 year old, how is that repentant? Any system that allows this guy to breathe free air ever again is not a justice system, it is an injustice system.
In any case, repentence and forgiveness doesn’t get you out of paying the temporal price for a sin which is also a crime...
Shoot, shovel, shut up.
Justice is not pegged on any absolutes, it is all arbitrary and technicalities and whose lawyer is more clever than the other at weird arguments.
Kinda like what happens when a currency’s value isn’t pegged to anything real. Faith in it is ultimately lost, it becomes meaningless and arbitrary.
can i help??.....
The father is arranging for his own counseling, plus he is planning on performing a real service to mankind.
Our justice system is so broken that guys like you aren't going to be able to hold back the tide wave this man, or some other patriotic parent, is going to unleash.
“I agree with what he intends to do, but I don’t think he should have announced it to the world. It’ll only make it that much more difficult to do.”
Naa. It will be more difficult...but he wants the world to know who killed this animal. As far as going to jail for it, I’m sure he considers himself dead already...and in jail, he’ll probably be a hero - inmates don’t think too kindly of child-attackers, and this is a guy who took one out...not bad.
I don’t know about that. Wasn’t that more or less what happened to Cain after he killed his brother? He had the “mark” and had to love looking over his shoulder for the rest of his natural life, right?
Shoot, shovel and shut up!
My first reaction was that he couldn't "get away" with the murder, not that it would make it any more difficult. But your remark got me to think that the child-killer, if released, is going to have to wonder where his victim's father is; and he'll have to wonder that all the time.
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