Three Strikes and You're Dead

[mr_smiles]

Mr. Smiles can you provide some documentation where a convicted death row inmate was executed then posthumously exonerated?

Only time I remember that happening was in The Life of David Gale with Kevin Spacey but maybe I missed the story.

Right off the top of my head Cameron Willingham, was accused of killing his children in a house fire, however in 2009 after he was executed in 2004 the state of Texas found no scientific evidence to support the claim made earlier by the expert witness.

Was he guilty, who knows the mans dead now. But we do know the evidence used to convince him was bullshit.

[RancidSumo]

OK but what the father who has kids to feed and then loses his job because of a shitty, unethical boss, and ends up killing the boss out of rage because of the burden the jobless father has.

I can't say I would treat him the same as a guy who robs and kills some old lady.

I would.

[John_Wayne777]

I think it's more of a common sense analogy. Figure "Enough is enough".

Precisely.

The overwhelming majority of the most serious crimes perpetrated in our nation are perpetrated by a relatively small percentage of criminals who have made it a lifestyle. If you look up the statistics you'll generally find that the average murderer has committed several other violent crimes in the past, generally having been convicted or plead out on at least a percentage of them.

The "three strikes" type laws are an attempt to deal with the revolving door that keeps letting these violent sociopaths and career criminals back out on the street where they keep victimizing the law abiding public.

[cop1211]

Precisely.

The overwhelming majority of the most serious crimes perpetrated in our nation are perpetrated by a relatively small percentage of criminals who have made it a lifestyle. If you look up the statistics you'll generally find that the average murderer has committed several other violent crimes in the past, generally having been convicted or plead out on at least a percentage of them.

The "three strikes" type laws are an attempt to deal with the revolving door that keeps letting these violent sociopaths and career criminals back out on the street where they keep victimizing the law abiding public.

Exactly. But instead of the taxpayers having to pay for a "life" sentence, it should be a death sentence ,carried out no more than 1 year from the third conviction.