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I won't argue that the existing system isn't broken. But elimination of life imprisonment and capped sentences of 25 years for all crimes is just absurd. What
by shockeychap 4y ago
I won't argue that the existing system isn't broken. But elimination of life imprisonment and capped sentences of 25 years for all crimes is just absurd.
What about Dennis Rader? He murdered numerous people throughout the 70s and 80s. The details of the Otero family are the kind of thing they don't even write about in fiction. Should he be allowed freedom before he dies? Should he be free today because of how old his crimes were?
What about Jeffrey Dahmer? (I realize he's dead, but that was at the hand of another inmate, and he'd still be alive and well if not for that.) He would be walking free today as a 62 year old if there was a 25 year maximum.
Furthermore, who's going to assume responsibility when people like this are released and then kill again to satisfy the urge within them?
Like I said, I won't argue that what he have needs correction, and I agree with the focus on rehabilitation, but there ARE other things that matter - such as appropriate punishment and protection of society - that still need to be factored in.
- LightHugger 4y agoIt works really well in norway, at the end of the sentence if they are an extreme public risk, such as in those cases, it's extended. But it's very important to have the automatic "we need to extend this" rather than the expectation it's a life sentence built in from the start of serving it.