Molest a child in Vermont and get 60 days.......molest a child in Texas and get 396 YEARS........... http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/13716388.htm chris3
longhorngunman said:One is a conservative state and one is a liberal state, what else would you expect . BTW the Texas judge was still too lenient. Now the taxpayers will have to cloth and feed this POS, where a $.25 cent bullet could take care of the problem permanently.
longhorngunman said:One is a conservative state and one is a liberal state, what else would you expect
How did that happen? I've always wondered how a state that's usually considered "liberal" has pretty much no firearm laws at all at least regarding concealed/unconcealed etc.
TX prisons are reputed to be more unpleasant than most, and child molestors tend to have problems in prison.where the Texas guy will never get what he REALLY deserves
Standing Wolf said:Vermont's firearms laws—or lack thereof, as the case may be—date back to the early years of the twentieth century, long before leftist extremists began to infest the state.
longhorngunman said:One is a conservative state and one is a liberal state, what else would you expect . BTW the Texas judge was still too lenient. Now the taxpayers will have to cloth and feed this POS, where a $.25 cent bullet could take care of the problem permanently.
Brad Johnson said:The difference between Texas and Vermont?
Well, people from Vermont have a funny accent...
Brad
Brad Johnson said:The difference between Texas and Vermont?
Well, people from Vermont have a funny accent...
Brad
I do, but only as a form of rehabilitation.I don't believe in the death penalty.
Herself said:In this age of lengthy court battles, it is usually cheaper to lock bad guys up forever than to execute them. As long as they never get out, I don't mind. (YMMV-- a lot). Life imprisonment without parole does allow for some wiggle room if an innocent man has been convicted. It's difficult to unkill them.
--Herself
hvengel said:I believe that in 1905 the Vermont Supreme court ruled that the right to arms part of the Vermont Constition really did mean that the people had a right to arms in the broadest terms. It is binding precedent to this day.
Problem is, all that DNA testing and automatic appealing adds up, and -- at least as it works now -- costs more than keeping them under locak and key until they die of more natural causes.armoredman said:i have to address this one. What is the purpose of prison?[...]
OK, so what does life in prison do? If there is no possability that thi individual will ever return to scoiety as a rehabiliteda citizen, what purpose does it to keep him in prison, housed, fed, clothed, educated, (fed decree), etc, for the rest of his natural life? Either we acknowlege prison as also a place of punishment, and design a lifer-only prison, or go with the rehabilitation crowd, and eliminate the life in prison sentance.
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Any crime worthy of life in prison is worthy of elimination from society forever, as it is the same thing, with a few stipulations. First, conclusive DNA evidence for a death sentance. Automatic appeal - anyone can screw something up. After second death sentance, execution in seven to ten working days....
armoredman said:After second death sentance, execution in seven to ten working days....
Herself said:Problem is, all that DNA testing and automatic appealing adds up, and -- at least as it works now -- costs more than keeping them under locak and key until they die of more natural causes.
If the goal is to remove that player from the game and to do so at the least cost to society, life without parole is the most efficient way of doing it.
cbsbyte said:Did any one else hear or read that the molester in Vermont was mentally slow. Yeah, he has the mind of a ten year old. This is why the judge did not want to sentance him to a long term in a prison where he would be tortured, for doing something he really has no control over. I have only heard this on MSNBC, and never on FOX, the holy cursade network.
+1. Studies have shown that the recidivism rate among those executed is far below that of parollees.JohnKSa said:I do, but only as a form of rehabilitation.