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Reply to "another one dodged the bullet"

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Originally posted by SittinPurdy:
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Originally posted by DixieChik:
SEveral years ago the talk was all about "truth in sentencing" and holding criminals accountable for their crimes. THere is no such thing in America anymore and the criminals know it. I think we should go with let the punishment fit the crime ... you kill, you get killed (with or without appeals is optional to me)...you steal you get your hand cut off...you rape, you get your pecker cut off and if you are a woman who rapes we'll figure out something...I'm so sick of criminals getting out and doing it over and over and over and when they get tired of trying to make ends meet they commit an offense to get sent back...it is ludicrus...


That sounds good on paper, until it is an innocent person getting their hand cut off for a simple crime they didn't commit, or a man getting his pecker cut off because some woman lies about a rape that never occurred.

You have got to have appeals. Do you realize the number of innocent people on death row? Have you seen the statistics of the number of people DNA evidence has cleared after having spent years in prison?

I think a bigger problem is with the police and prosecutors who latch onto a theory just in order to punish someone -- anyone, even if the evidence is weak. This happens quite often.



Yes, I have seen all the shows on tv and the statistics etc., but I think that there comes a point that you have to have a deterrant effect and prison/punishment as it is -- is no deterrant to anyone at this point. They look at it like -- oh, I'll get 25 and I'll do 5 no big deal.

If an innocent person gets their hand cut off and it deters the many many many criminals -- that is for the better good.

Go ahead and bash me -- I have seen it, but I'm also seeing the other side of this as well -- and in the end, the greater good would be served...look at history -- it's not like innocent people haven't been punished before for something that they didn't do -- you are not throwing anything new at my opinion to deter me from the opinion. When you are on the receiving end of that repeat offender that continues to flip through the system -- you get tired of hearing those kind of arguements.

I know my opinion doesn't jive with the rest of the world and I'm fine with that...it is still my opinion...

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