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Originally Posted by Rochard
I don't get this either. This was a brutal crime he committed, using a hammer to murder his own grandmother. Once you do something like this... There is no coming back. He should have had bread and water daily living out the rest of his life in a cell in total darkness.
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And that's the problem with life sentences. Life doesn't mean life. Prison overcrowding, sympathetic liberal judges who think the sentence was too harsh somewhere down the road 10, 20, 30 years and they let them out. I don't know happened in this case but it seemed like he was sentenced for 17 years and then was let out.
Problem with the death penalty laws right now is the appeals process goes on way too long 10 to 12 years and millions of taxpayer dollars is just ludicrous. There are certain cases where one appeal and there's enough evidence to prove the crime was committed or the person and/or the person confesses to the crime, Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson etc. These cases are no-brainers. Problem is liberal judges have such a hard time with sentencing anybody to death that even if the jury recommends the death penalty they will probably reduce their sentence to life.