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Ross's story is heartbreaking honestly. Yes the guy basically built the Amazon of drugs, yes he should have done prison time for it. But FFS 2X life without pos

Ross's story is heartbreaking honestly. Yes the guy basically built the Amazon of drugs, yes he should have done prison time for it. But FFS 2X life without possibility of parole. This guys has maybe one chance left and that's if a sympathetic President gets elected and pardons him.

Hamuko 4y ago
Pardoning someone that was found guilty of running a massive drug operation doesn't seem like an optic that is popular for a lot of presidential candidates. Maybe if the Libertarian Party manages to win the presidency?
- digianarchist 4y ago
  I think overturning "life without parole" as a punishment is a better angle. The US punitive justice system really is awful.
  - fourseventy 4y ago
    Idk I would rather have murderers and child molesters in jail for life without parole.
    - ShamelessC 4y ago
      Even if that means people who aren’t guilty inevitably experience those sentences due to inevitable flaws in the courts?
  - encryptluks2 4y ago
    I think decriminalizing drugs and offering extensive health care as a basic human right sounds like a better choice. I don't see Walmart execs going to jail when people conduct drug exchanges in Walmart parking lots.
  - Hamuko 4y ago
    It's not unpopular though. Only about 28% of Americans think that prison sentences are too long, whereas 32% think they are too short and 37% think that they're about right. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/06/u-s-public-divided-over-whether-people-convicted-of-crimes-spend-too-much-or-too-little-time-in-prison/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/06/u-s-public-...
voidfunc 4y ago
Eh....
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h3daz 4y ago
Probably not the best idea to run this kind of business from the US
- duped 4y ago
  The US has a long history of extraditing people through legal or extra legal means wherever they might be.
  - ceejayoz 4y ago
    Sure, but that's not a great reason to make it easier for them. If I were running the Amazon of drugs, I'd brush up on which countries don't extradite to the USA.
hresvelgr 4y ago
He paid to have several people murdered. No murdering took place allegedly but the attempts are well documented.

Hamuko 4y ago

Pardoning someone that was found guilty of running a massive drug operation doesn't seem like an optic that is popular for a lot of presidential candidates. Maybe if the Libertarian Party manages to win the presidency?

digianarchist 4y ago
I think overturning "life without parole" as a punishment is a better angle. The US punitive justice system really is awful.
- fourseventy 4y ago
  Idk I would rather have murderers and child molesters in jail for life without parole.
  - ShamelessC 4y ago
    Even if that means people who aren’t guilty inevitably experience those sentences due to inevitable flaws in the courts?
- encryptluks2 4y ago
  I think decriminalizing drugs and offering extensive health care as a basic human right sounds like a better choice. I don't see Walmart execs going to jail when people conduct drug exchanges in Walmart parking lots.
- Hamuko 4y ago
  It's not unpopular though. Only about 28% of Americans think that prison sentences are too long, whereas 32% think they are too short and 37% think that they're about right. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/06/u-s-public-divided-over-whether-people-convicted-of-crimes-spend-too-much-or-too-little-time-in-prison/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/06/u-s-public-...

voidfunc 4y ago

Eh....

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h3daz 4y ago

Probably not the best idea to run this kind of business from the US

duped 4y ago
The US has a long history of extraditing people through legal or extra legal means wherever they might be.
- ceejayoz 4y ago
  Sure, but that's not a great reason to make it easier for them. If I were running the Amazon of drugs, I'd brush up on which countries don't extradite to the USA.

hresvelgr 4y ago

He paid to have several people murdered. No murdering took place allegedly but the attempts are well documented.