[quote=spdrun]Justice should be rehabilitative, not based on rage. Or should we go back to midnight lynchings where the victim’s family strings the perp up from the nearest oak tree?
I didn’t say 15 years with a possible reduction for rehab. I said 15-life, meaning fifteen years hard time minimum, with possibility of parole every ten years after that, depending on state of rehabilitation.
Note that possibility of parole doesn’t mean actuality. Look at Charles Manson, who’s been up for parole several times, and each time the pardons board said “no.”
I’m the opposite of heartless. I’m a bleeding-heart, criminal-hugging, pinko liberal in this respect.[/quote]
No. I get the impression that you like telling everyone how much you love the underdog, but mostly because you like people to think well of you. You work hard at it, at least on this board. Your posts bring to mind the following:
“It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.”
