frankie buttram pleads guilty, sentenced to life in prison.were gonna have to take care of him the rest of his life!what a bummer i know what i would have sentenced him!!!!!!!!!!
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quote:Originally posted by bubbaluck:
He will be eligible for parole after 15 years. It will be cheaper to keep him in prison than it would be to prosecute and defend appeals in a death penalty case for the next 20 years.
quote:Originally posted by bubbaluck:
He will be eligible for parole after 15 years. It will be cheaper to keep him in prison than it would be to prosecute and defend appeals in a death penalty case for the next 20 years.
quote:Originally posted by FirenzeVeritas:
We should all hope he benefits from the drug program in prison.
quote: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...
quote: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...
quote:Originally posted by SittinPurdy:quote: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.
quote:Originally posted by butterflier:
What is the talk of DNA I believe it was just the fact that Buttram will not get out of prison. Buttram pled GUILTY to MURDER he said he DID it no-one decided it for him no trial he wanted the deal because I am sure he knew he would have gotten the Death Penalty.
When you take a deal you do not get appeals you do not get out early you do your time. The only way out is through parole and as stated friends and family will NEVER let that happen.
who cares about drug program? who cares if he does drugs?
quote:Originally posted by zippadeedoodah:
Just like with OJ, right, SittinPurdy?
quote:As far as the statistics on the people DNA evidence has cleared after having spent years in prison, have YOU seen them?
quote:Last year’s best-seller Actual Innocence by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer suggested the true rate of wrongful convictions may be closer to ten percent than to one-half of one percent. DNA tests used before trial have exonerated at least 5000 prime suspects out of the first 18,000 DNA suspect samples at the FBI and other crime labs-suggesting a pre-trial error rate of more than 25 percent. Since 1977, some 553 people have been executed in the United States while another eighty death row inmates have been released after they were found innocent. For every seven executed, one innocent person is freed-an “error rate” of more than twelve (12) percent. In the State of Illinois, 12 people have been executed since 1977 while 13 have been released after proving their innocence-an error rate of 52 percent.
quote:And usually those cases are not the result of overzealous police; rather, someone lied or the defendant convicted himself with his mouth.
quote:Originally posted by Ed@Bama:
Okay, here's me being tacky. Feel free to not read the rest of this... and don't say I didn't warn you!
I know nothing about the case y'all are talking about, but am I understanding that someone named "Buttram" is going to be in prison? Talk about apropos!