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Regardless of their age, 28 years is more than enough time in prison for any crime.
by siddboots 13y ago
Regardless of their age, 28 years is more than enough time in prison for any crime.
- giardini 13y agoYes, perhaps better would be less time + public burning at the stake (or reverse the order), especially in extreme cases where innocents were damaged severely and there is little doubt that the prosecution is unfair. Our society sometimes looks like something Charles Dickens wrote about (or worse). Bringing back the old punishments (drawing & quartering, hanging, etc.) might help, but I doubt it.
- eru 13y agoHow about caning?
- giardini 13y ago"How about caning?" A Brit once told me that it was very effective in helping one to focus. He claimed that his caning in mathematics class was responsible for his Ph.D. in math.
- eru 13y agoActually I thought of the caning they use in Singapore as a form of punishment for crimes. Pretty cruel, but I guess it beats getting raped in American prisons.
- Graham24 13y agotransportation to the colonies? actually now I think about it...
- VladRussian2 13y ago28 years - yep, it may sound at first like a long time (even though they destroyed decades of life for their victims). Yet with good behavior these snakes will probably be out in 7 (if i understand the system correctly), and it doesn't look like they are going to serve time in any serious security tough facility.
- wl 13y agoThere is no longer parole in the federal system. Even with good behavior, a 28 year sentence can be no shorter 24 years and change.
- sixothree 13y agoI'd really hate to say it but people who abuse authority in this manner don't deserve to enjoy being members of society. How many lives do you have to destroy before we destroy yours? 10, 100, 1000?
- e12e 13y agoI find it a little ironic that in a story that indicates that the system is horribly corrupt, you would advocate that the same system be allowed to destroy lives.
- siddboots 13y agoI can empathise, but that is not the role of the courts. Particularly when the problem is systemic. The court's role here should be to sentence in a way that a) offsets the incentives that exist for corruption, and b) provides restitution where possible. The problem is not evil individuals, but that incentives for corruption exist in the first place.
- gohrt 13y agoIt's really not that hard to choose not to mastermind a child slavery pipeline from a position of power atop state government. This isn't the sort of crime that underpriveleged individuals get forced into.