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  • Court upholds Kip Kinkel sentence (Springfield, Or. parental and school killings)

    10/17/2002 10:16:03 PM PDT · by Glutton · 1 replies · 545+ views
    The Register Guard ^ | 17 Oct 02 | by Bill Bishop
    judge lawfully imposed the 112-year prison sentence given Kip Kinkel for the 1998 murders of his parents and two students and the shooting rampage at Thurston High School that left 25 youths wounded and shocked the nation, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The court said the sentence was neither unconstitutionally cruel nor a misapplication of the stated constitutional purpose of criminal sentences: to protect society and to provide personal responsibility, accountability and reformation. Jesse Barton, chief deputy state public defender, argued in the appeal that the trial judge misread Oregon's constitutional principles for criminal sentencing and wrongly gave...