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Originally Posted by bizaro86
No I doubt he considered that. I doubt he considered the mother of that little boy either. But I have. I knew her professionally, and had met her son before he passed.
Garland should never get out of prison. Not out of vengeance for that precious little boy, but so he never has the chance to make another little boy's mother go through that ever again.
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When I was young, a couple of my friends from afterschool got murdered by their dad. He was paroled less than 20 years later. Every time I read a story about kids getting murdered, I think about them, and I wonder how the hell that guy is walking free, having killed his son and daughter. I also think about their mother, and how awful her life must be, having to live every day wondering what her kids could have grown up to be.
I have to say that I am not in favour of the death penalty, but not for the right reasons. I want people that do stuff like that to spend maximum time in prison. Death seems like an easy way out. No shoelaces and no sheets. No suicide. Three squares in a cold, damp room, for as long as possible, until they die.
Vengeance aside, I don't think that consecutive sentences are cruel and unreasonable. More like logical and warranted. It's not like if I rack up debt on multiple credit cards, I can pay them all off with the same dollars. You kill one person, 25 years (should be more, but I digress), you kill two people, well, you have to pay off the first one, before you start paying for the second. I don't know how this can be looked at any other way.