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Life without parole

JamesRK
I watched a program on MSNBC last night titled Lockup: Holman - Extended Stay - He Takes No Prisoners. One of the inmates had been sentenced to death, but another judge decided that was to harsh and reduced his sentence to "Life without parole". Now his lawyers have gotten a "Parole eligibility date" for him.

They had a whole section of "Life without parole" inmates who were working on "Parole eligibility".

There is no such thing as "Life without parole". I remember when the average "Life sentence" was seven yeas. It looks like "Life without parole" could run over ten years.

Just one more reason to keep the death penalty.
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  • beneteau
    Yep, release all the inmates and take our guns away. Superb government thinking, as usual.
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  • zipperzap
    quote:There is no such thing as "Life without parole". I remember when the average "Life sentence" was seven yeas. It looks like "Life without parole" could run o

    That's why many found guilty of serious crimes are give multiple sentences: ie. a 200-year sentence for multiple counts of murder. That takes care of your problem quite nicely.
    [:D]
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  • JamesRK
    quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
    That takes care of your problem quite nicely.
    [:D]

    I agree that it's a problem, but I don't claim it as mine. [:D]
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  • zipperzap
    Sorry, James - I've noticed that you're getting a little testy, lately, about my posts!

    My sincere apologies - when I read what you wrote - taking it on the assumption
    that you wrote "Just one more reason to keep the death penalty." ... it infers that
    you (might) be concerned about the increasing amount of years constituting
    "Life without parole," could run over ten years."

    I, therefore, took it upon myself to point out the multiple sentence technique used
    today to thwart the 'life without parole' problem ... assuming that it what your
    thread referred to.

    I guess, I missed something, somewhere. I retract that post.

    Let me rephrase my reply to you on your thread.

    Yep.
    [:D]
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  • JamesRK
    quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
    I, therefore, took it upon myself to point out the multiple sentence technique used today to thwart the 'life without parole' problem ... assuming that it what your thread referred to.
    Zip, I've seen some of the multiple sentences you're talking about, and they might work better than the Life without parole swindle. Some of them are almost comical. Some guy gets three nine hundred years sentences to run consecutively with his concurrent nine three hundred years sentences.

    However, as long as an inmate is wasting space and taking up oxygen there is a chance of his getting out. Maybe we need a "Now this ain't no poop and this time I mean it LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE sentence".

    I saw on TV this morning where an inmate on Death Row in California wrote a letter to the family of his victim taunting them about how glad he was that he had murdered their family member, and he reminded them that most of the people on Death Row had been there fifteen years or more.

    This is the kind of stuff which encourages vigilantism. As long as the public believes it can get justice or partial justice from the legal system most of the time, it will leave justice to the legal system. When the public loses faith in the legal system, people start taking the law into their own hands. It looks to me like we are on our way to "Dodge City".
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  • Hunter Mag
    I always thought a "life" sentence was 20yrs?
    My life must be over then...
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