These are habitual criminals. As someone else said, I'd be in favor of putting them away for spitting on the sidewalk.
Did you read this Ewing guy's rap sheet?
"Three-strikes-and-you're-out" is not going to snare some little old lady swiping a Walnetto.
Yes, and I asked why he wasnt in jail for the actual crimes he committed, instead of being put away for a long time for stealing golf clubs.
I am a tough on real crime type of person. You rob, you rape, you kill, you have no business among civilized people. Dont let people get away with those crimes and then make up some crazy technicality type law that makes a small charge the one that puts them away.
Yes it can. This law is blissfully blind to whether the career is worsening (as it obviously was in Ewing).
It is funny that Scalia voted for it, because in his Slouching Towards Gomorrah he said he didn't believe the statistics showed that it did any good. Apparently by the time a person gets 3-striked, they are usually old enough that the normal prison sentence would see them to an age at which they are unlikely to commit more violent crimes anyhow.