RIP To Troy Davis

[fred41]

...how do you punish someone when he continues to kill people in prison while serving a life sentence without parole?

plus every individual has a different opinion on the sanctity of life....personally, I'd rather be dead than do life without parole...or even twenty years.

[Jericho]

Solitary confinement?

[fred41]

Solitary confinement?

forever?...definitely rather be dead.

[Jericho]

forever?...definitely rather be dead.

Sounds like a deterrent that might actually work.
Let's face it, the death penalty doesn't.

[giovanni_hotel]

Same state last week, White man admits to robbery and first degree murder and is sentenced to death.

But what a minute, in this case the state of Georgia parole board decided to commute his death sentence hours before execution last Thursday to LIFE IN PRISON.

Great country we live in. BTW the South is STILL fucked up.

http://bossip.com/462251/race-matter...w-inmate12006/

[fred41]

Sounds like a deterrent that might actually work.
Let's face it, the death penalty doesn't.

No type of punitive threats work as deterrents for the most heinous crimes...I never understand why people even get into arguments about deterrents in the penal system. It's punishment...pure and simple. That's what sentences are - punishments created to fit a crime.

[onmyknees]

Same state last week, White man admits to robbery and first degree murder and is sentenced to death.

But what a minute, in this case the state of Georgia parole board decided to commute his death sentence hours before execution last Thursday to LIFE IN PRISON.

Great country we live in. BTW the South is STILL fucked up.

http://bossip.com/462251/race-matter...w-inmate12006/

Really now? tens of thousands of yankees who are fleeing to the south to escape high taxes, over regulation, crumbling inner cities, joblessness, generations of one party rule, and ineffective schools.

[Dino Velvet]

Really now? tens of thousands of yankees who are fleeing to the south to escape high taxes, over regulation, crumbling inner cities, joblessness, generations of one party rule, and ineffective schools.

They won't be coming to California either. The only kind of business our state government knows is monkey business. The present environment for business ends up chasing much of it away. My money stays in my mattress not moving an inch.

[Jericho]

No type of punitive threats work as deterrents for the most heinous crimes...I never understand why people even get into arguments about deterrents in the penal system. It's punishment...pure and simple. That's what sentences are - punishments created to fit a crime.

Can't really argue with that...No one "thinks" they're going to get caught.

But, when it comes to those punishments, i'd rather see 9 guilty men live than one innocent man fry...No matter what it costs me in tax dollars.

[giovanni_hotel]

Really now? tens of thousands of yankees who are fleeing to the south to escape high taxes, over regulation, crumbling inner cities, joblessness, generations of one party rule, and ineffective schools.

The rural SOuth has the WORST schools, the most people on public assistance, the least job prospects, the lowest per capita income, the greatest number of working poor.

I was commenting about the criminal justice system as it's applied down South.

WTF are you talking about??