State Releases Convict By Mistake And Three People Die

[cinch]

But there is a point to that post. The above article said he would be released eventually. You can't hold drug offenders forever. He would have killed his family eventually. You could make the argument that his anger would die down after a few years. But I doubt it. He was in prison after all. He had plenty of time for his anger to die down, it didn't. If anything, his anger increased while he was in prison.

True, it may have been inevitable that he would kill his family if released... but in cases like this, there isn't really an alternative.

Unless we start giving the DP automatically to all drug convicts and other petty criminals... But don't get any ideas!

[Asher]

If every crime was punishable by death, we would not have a problem. Surely no one is completely innocent, so once they're arrested they're probably guilty of many things warranting death in the first place.

[Q Classic]

poor family. an "oops, my bad" won't cut it from the state.

the good thing about a rampant death penalty is that we'd slowly but surely bring our population down.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by trickey
The death penalty is just sanctioned murder.

This is an oxymoron... murder is by definition "illegal killing". Thus we have "legal illegal killing"?

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Space05us


cant he be held on conspiracy or something. it says he wrote threatening letter to his family.

We couldn't go around violating his rights to threaten to kill his family now can we. The authorities should have been monitering his exchanges with is family once they were told he was making threats. That should in turn have been used against any move on his part to secure parole. Then again all that is meaningless when they just let the bastard out. As far as I'm concerned the authorites are accessories to those three murders.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
There you have it.
A perfect illustration for the need of the death penalty.

Yeah, great reason to have the death penalty, because the legal system is a mess and capable of making huge mistakes.

[Kuciwalker]

Unfortunately (and fortunately) it is illegal to monitor the mail in the United States.

[Sprayber]

IIRC snail mail is subject to search in prisions. That's how it used to be anyway.

[Kuciwalker]

IIRC it's not

[Sprayber]

Looks like incomming mail is opened but not out going. I guess the convict has more rights then the people that write them.

http://www.911-justice-phadp.org/Correspondence_Information_Page.htm

[Space05us]

as far as Im concerned a prisoner should lose thier constitutional rights while in prison. Im not saying that they should be mistreated, just that the authorities should be able to have much greater control over them than the constitutional limits allow.

[Kuciwalker]

Unfortunately, that's unconsitutional

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
Two wrongs dont make it right.

3 do,however.