Rockefeller Drug Laws: Big Changes Ahead

[FUCK THE POLICE]

right. serial rapists and murderers should just get a fine of 20 dollars.

Serial rapists and murderers usually get life sentences from the outset.

Seriously, I thought that conservatives were the ones who believed in "eye for an eye"? Is it eye for an eye to put someone who committed two burglaries and then broke a rib in a barfight in jail for 90 years?

 

[NOVA]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_strikes_law

look at the years they were passed by the voting public?

OK you fucking fool you have just proved you dont even know the law.

Its not restricted to violent crimes.

What are you trying to show us desh? ...that the laws were passed under the Clinton admin ?

The first true "three strikes" law, with virtually no exceptions provided was passed in 1993, when Washington state voters approved Initiative 593. California passed its own in 1994

Failed California amendment: Proposition 66
Main article: California Proposition 66 (2004)

The amendment would have required the third felony to be either "violent" and/or "serious" in order to result in a 25-years-to-life sentence, because thousands of current threestrikers are sentenced to 25 year-to-life because of non-violent and/or non-serious felonies.

On November 2, 2004, the state's voters rejected an amendment to the statute (offered in Proposition 66). 5.5 million voters (47.3%) voted yes, but 6.2 million (52.7%) voted no.

Or are you pointing out that California liberals voted down Prop 66

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Serial rapists and murderers usually get life sentences from the outset.

Seriously, I thought that conservatives were the ones who believed in "eye for an eye"? Is it eye for an eye to put someone who committed two burglaries and then broke a rib in a barfight in jail for 90 years?

did you not read my post a bit ago? the 3 strikes law has been misapplied, badly. nobody should go to prison for life because their 3rd strike was stealing a candy bar.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Well if you are literally going to limit it to just serial rapists and murders, alright. That's fine with me.

 

[Timshel]

It's a horrible idea. Sentencing cannot be solved through legislation. There are far too many variables to consider. I mean, what if my 3rd murder was of an asshole who clearly had it coming, e.g. waterhead?

And as for who's to blame, the dems deserve some, but the bulk lands cleanly on Repubs. You folks were on and on about "liberal" judges giving out light sentences during that period.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I only said I supported it because I don't see how someone would live long enough to go through enough murder sentences to actually get to strike three. It would be redundant.

As a general matter, however, I don't think justice will ever be served by a mathematical equation.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

did you not read my post a bit ago? the 3 strikes law has been misapplied, badly. nobody should go to prison for life because their 3rd strike was stealing a candy bar.

And of course, here, I didn't least three nonserious nonviolent crimes. A burglary and an assault are violent or serious offenses that qualify as strikes in many places, but I don't think anyone should get a life sentence for either.