by TresHappy 186 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
teenyuck,
Did you remove your brain today?
wait a second ...does that mean you attest me having had a brain previously?
i think this woman is not a bad person but frightened. but for me personally it doesn't matter whether she is a horrible person or not.
punishment should never be the goal of the justice system. the goal should be the protection of the normal citizens and the resocialization of the criminal (abnormal) individual.
It seems to me we're more compassionate and give greater benefits of the doubt to people who murder their own children (i.e. Longo, Yates) than we are toward someone who made incredibly poor choices. JMO.
As always.
his woman is too stupid to be allowed to continue breathing. Tell you what, if she was white and the guy was black, they'd be calling this a hate crime, maybe that would be worth the death penalty.
I knew that it was only a matter of time before someone played the reverse discrimination card!
Peace'
punishment should never be the goal of the justice system. the goal should be the protection of the normal citizens and the resocialization of the criminal (abnormal) individual.So what is the point of a prison, if not to punish the wrongdoer?Sounded a liittle JW like, huh?
Resocialization....great way to get a college degree....
teenyuck,
prisons should be there to keep dangerous individuals away from the public. not as punishment.
in the end it is better to resocialize people than to keep them in prison for 10+x years and after that release them as the even more dangerous individuals they became while being inmates.
punishment and even the threat of the death panalty don't work as is easily observable in the US (which has the highest inmate rate in the western world).
Chante Mallard Found Guilty!
They had no defense. They did not deny she did it nor did they deny she left him in the car and he died.
They showed it live on TV, as they read the verdict. She looked down. She did not cry or look very upset. Too bad she did not take any deals they might have offered.
She needs to apologize and be sincere at her sentencing.
This woman worked as a nurse's aide, the same type of person who cares for my mother in her nursing home. Do I want her off the streets and in jail where she can't hurt anyone else? Or do I want her using the same type of judgment in caring for my mother that she used on that poor DEAD man? Not a tough choice.
Nina
i'm watching the sentencing phase on court tv. She has had a lot of people come to her defense, and they are trying very hard to paint her family as decent people who raised a decent person and then got on drugs and they tried ot help her and she refused it.
I'll admit i feel a bit differently after seeing all this. If someone wemt into my entire life- well how many of us would have lead a perfect life? Also, i have been on the other end, a parent who child used drugs and was helpless to do anything about it.
But i still have to agree with Nina-she cares for older people in nursing homes, and is dangerous.
I'm glad i am not deciding this young womans fate. She made a terrible error \n judgment, and i'm glad i am not having to decide her life. Can we rehibiltate her, can we ever trust her agian?
Did any of you ever read the book Dead Man Walking-it was very different from the movie-not really so much about one man's story as the death penalty in general. Anyway, you may find this hard to believe, but it costs more tax dollars to kill them. I personally am against the death penalty, but a good part of the reason for that is that I think it is too easy to just "put them to sleep". I would rather they have to survive in prison for the rest of their lives. JMHO.
BUT if I did ever hear of a case that I would want the person to have the death penalty-I have to say it would be this one. I can understand initial panic-especially on drugs when nothing seems real...but the next day when she had a dying man in her garage or whatever. It is one of the most horrible things I have ever heard...WHY does this stuff always happen in Texas???.
Did any of you ever read the book Dead Man Walking-it was very different from the movie-not really so much about one man's story as the death penalty in general. Anyway, you may find this hard to believe, but it costs more tax dollars to kill them. I personally am against the death penalty, but a good part of the reason for that is that I think it is too easy to just "put them to sleep". I would rather they have to survive in prison for the rest of their lives. JMHO.
BUT if I did ever hear of a case that I would want the person to have the death penalty-I have to say it would be this one. I can understand initial panic-especially on drugs when nothing seems real...but the next day when she had a dying man in her garage or whatever. It is one of the most horrible things I have ever heard...WHY does this stuff v always happen in Texas???.
