oragami_itto wrote:We do occasionally get some things right, but if you think four consecutive life sentences is too hard for filming yourself repeatedly raping a 3 year old.... I got nothing.
A fitting punishment would be dragging his ass behind a car going 10 miles an hour all the way from El Paso to Orange.
Not sure if you're talking to me, but in case I missed something in this thread, then no, four consecutive life sentences is fine with me for repeatedly raping a 3 year old.
That said, I just watched an hour long interview with a former bank robber who got 12 years for 5 robberies, but found his calling in the klink as a jailhouse lawyer, "winning" two cases at the Supreme Court, and later becoming a "real" lawyer when he was released. He said that he deserved his first 5 years in prison, but by then it was obvious to him and most others that he was actually reformed and no longer a threat to anyone, and the next 6 years incarcerated were not affected by his continually useful work producing legal briefs for other inmates.
Generally, I think long prison sentences are the wrong way to go and I wish our society had the insight to deal with these problems another way. There are of course exceptions. I remember one time another RSF member said that some crimes really do deserve the death penalty, but it being available means some will receive it unjustly, so I can't be in favor of it. That's my view as well.