tiny dancer wrote:


Tell that to all the victims of REPEAT OFFENDERS. Tell that to the kid that
Joseph Duncan raped and tried to strangle when he was 17.

He was not sentenced to LWOP. I guess you're arguing a rapist should be
sentenced to death, because then there will be no more victims. But
LWOP makes that happen just as surely as a death penalty.

Oh, you can argue that we will never, ever execute the wrong person,
only the clearly guilty.. But I can't argue we will never, ever
release a LWOP prisoner.

Uh huh.

Tell that to the
women Richard Allen Davis kidnapped and raped prior to Polly Klass.

Also wasn't given LWOP. If he had been, there would have been no more
victims. Didn't require the death penalty So the example proves
nothing.


Tell
that to the victim prior to Carlie Brucia,

That guy also wasn't given LWOP. If he had been, there would have been
no more victims. Didn't require the death penalty So the example
proves nothing.



tell it to the victims that came
before Jessica Lunsford, etc.



That guy also wasn't given LWOP. If he had been, there would have been
no more victims. Didn't require the death penalty So the example
proves nothing.

You say 'they will never get out again'. I
say, look at history. Life may mean *life* now. Wait 20 or 30 years, until
the prisons are more over-crowded and parole boards need to do a little
thinning out again.

Oh sure, I can just see some governor approving that...get real!!! You
think the system is good enough to never execute an innocent person,
but lousy enough to let the worst killers to free if they aren't
executed. C'mon, that's contradictory.


Think Kenneth MacDuff.

He got a plea bargain, that's how he got out. You want to outlaw plea
bargains? Has nothing to do with death penalty versus life without
parole.

The system is good enough that we'd only kill those clearly guilty, but
lousy enough that we can't possibly consider LWOP a real alternative.

Makes no sense.


Bo Raxo