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Hence my clause, "swift and heavy punishment." If you're going to tap someone on the wrist, it won't work. Sentencing someone to 10 years for rape is wrong. You might as well release him back into society.
Exactly.
So here is justice for me, and if I'm on the jury panel, this is what I'd want:
- death penalty for: 1st degree murder, rape, kidnapping, treason
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How do you say sorry to a corpse if you find out later on that they were innocent ?
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- no sentence over 15 years. If it exceeds 20 years, sentence to death instead
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Life is much more of a punishment, than death. Again you can say sorry to a corpse. Besides life means that if you make them work their Debt off to society, you have longer to get a return.
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- prisoner loses the right to vote for the rest of his life
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Losing the right to vote, the problem with that is that you run the risk that once you've been convited once the criminal has nothing to use. How many rights do you take away. An old teach of mine said that there are only 2 things that cannot be taken away from you are your qualifications and the right to vote.
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- all prisoners will pay their own room and rent for as long as they have assets to do so, if they can't, they can be put to work
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The only issue that I have with the making the prisiors working is that we should remove the assets first and then make them work all the time that they are in. otherwise, you run into the problem that serial criminals (the ones that nick your cornflakes) will have enough to avoid doing anything while on the inside.
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Originally Posted by Jerrek
- unlimited self-defense. End-of-discussion. If the thug ends up dead, so much better. No need for lengthy, crappy appeals to protect the criminals.
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Are you sure that you want to open that door ? picture this, a burgler enters you house. You go at him with a crowbar, you scuffle, during this you end up with your head caved in with the crowbar... you die 2 hours later in hospital.
His defence team offer one defence for your killer, self defence. They are able to show that you must have bought the crowbar to the fight and he was not armed. there fore he acted in self defence and would have run had you not come at him with a crowbar...
That's a dangerous door to open...