It is currently Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:47 am

All times are UTC - 5 hours





Forum locked This topic is locked, you cannot edit posts or make further replies.  [ 8 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: Mfreak Ducky or Seth
PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:26 pm 
First Lieutenant
First Lieutenant
User avatar
 Profile

Joined: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:37 pm
Posts: 363
Location: In the closet
Gender: male
Do any of you know why some people get a ridiculous sentence, like 500 years in prison? That's not justice. Why don't they pursue an alternative? Even if the death penalty is illegal in that state/Country or just not an option...

I know that such a severe sentence totally eliminates any chance of parole... but they already have life without parole... I'm really confused.

_________________
Image

Spoiler:
TKT - Rank 10 E3
NICT - Rank 9 F2


Top
 

 Post subject: Re: Mfreak Ducky or Seth
PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:35 pm 
First Lieutenant
First Lieutenant
User avatar
 Profile

Joined: Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:32 am
Posts: 625
Location: Eire for life haha
Gender: male
Capital punishment keeps serious crime rates down, for proof look at the statistics for nations 5, 10, 15, 20 years after it was abolished.

_________________
Image

Thanks for the Sig Dawnice ;}~
Skype: cianoige

Wins on this account:F4 Era 16 (Led JFF and finished Rank 1)
Image

Allies ATM:none ;{~


Top
 

 Post subject: Re: Mfreak Ducky or Seth
PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:13 pm 
Second Lieutenant
Second Lieutenant
User avatar
 Profile

Joined: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:18 am
Posts: 215
Gender: male
With the new healthcare laws, these ridiculous sentences are actually the predicted lifespan of these law-breakers.

_________________
For your viewing pleasure:
Spoiler:
In loving memory...
dylsupreme1 wrote:
My last post - Dylan.


Top
 

 Post subject: Re: Mfreak Ducky or Seth
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:02 am 
Major
Major
User avatar
 YIM  Profile

Joined: Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:21 am
Posts: 2757
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Gender: male
The 500 years just add up based on the number of counts the person is charged with. So for a murder and rape the person might be charged with - Homicide,Rape,Illegal entry and assault etc., Each of these counts will be awarded a specific punishment (number of years). They add up to 500 years. Basically it just means that its for a life span.

Quote:
Capital punishment keeps serious crime rates down, for proof look at the statistics for nations 5, 10, 15, 20 years after it was abolished.


Oh Please. Correlation is not causation. How do you attribute crime with lack of capital punishment. Why cant there be other reasons like, poverty, the economy crashing, immigration issues etc? Come on.

_________________
Deadman - SYN
----------------
Image


Top
 

 Post subject: Re: Mfreak Ducky or Seth
PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:32 am 
Captain
Captain
User avatar
 Profile

Joined: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:06 pm
Posts: 781
Gender: male
getting mentioned c: I feel loved.

The high sentences are meant to demonstrate the degree of the crime. You can get 15 years for a crime, but say you had multiple instances of the crime commited, the years stack. Same things apply to civil cases such as the music industry who charged the single woman millions by stacking hundreds of thousands of damages sued being repeated and stacked based on number of items downloaded/shared.

Its just a legal technicality, once life without parole is in place, the criminal rots irregardless how many lifetimes you put on him

darathmurrough wrote:
Capital punishment keeps serious crime rates down, for proof look at the statistics for nations 5, 10, 15, 20 years after it was abolished.

demographics play a much bigger part in keeping crime down, compare homicide rates in USA with homicide rates in other developed countries with no capital punishment. Heck, norway has some of the best crime figures in the world despite all the controversy over brevik's jail, the system works.

I would like to see your proof.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/cr ... 0tbl01.xls
US 4.8 homicides per 100 000 people

http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/03/0 ... 01-en.html
Norway 0.68 homicides per 100 000 people

effectively 6-7x more homicides in USA than Norway.

_________________
Image

-~~Retired Spammer~~-

~Agnostic atheist pastafarian~

Discussion+debates and World Events.


Top
 

 Post subject: Re: Mfreak Ducky or Seth
PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:34 am 
News Team
News Team
User avatar
 Profile

Joined: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:46 pm
Posts: 213
Location: The news room crying
Gender: male
I understand where ur coming from wolowitz but if some1 has done soemthing that gave them 400+ years sentence..they deserve death or to die in prison

_________________
Best Power: 416
skype: toolad
PNES/MFB, SOTO, CoV, PAIN, OD, RoFL, AHH, GoTp, HaHa, BoS, GeNs, SoLD
IGN : The Amazing Mr OImage


Top
 

 Post subject: Re: Mfreak Ducky or Seth
PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:15 pm 
First Lieutenant
First Lieutenant
User avatar
 Profile

Joined: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:37 pm
Posts: 363
Location: In the closet
Gender: male
Yeah but shouldn't the punishment fit the crime? Murder 2 people - life in prison. Mass murder - they get like 400 years in prison. What I'm saying is the extra years don't mean anything. Shouldn't they pursue alternative ways of punishing people?

_________________
Image

Spoiler:
TKT - Rank 10 E3
NICT - Rank 9 F2


Top
 

 Post subject: Re: Mfreak Ducky or Seth
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:09 am 
Captain
Captain
User avatar
 Profile

Joined: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:06 pm
Posts: 781
Gender: male
Wolowitz wrote:
Yeah but shouldn't the punishment fit the crime? Murder 2 people - life in prison. Mass murder - they get like 400 years in prison. What I'm saying is the extra years don't mean anything. Shouldn't they pursue alternative ways of punishing people?

for what purpose, what more can you take away then their freedoms for the rest of their life?

they will be interred indefinitely. I cant see how to make it worse without resorting to torture or cruel and unusual punishment which a modern justice system doesnt allow.

_________________
Image

-~~Retired Spammer~~-

~Agnostic atheist pastafarian~

Discussion+debates and World Events.


Top
 

Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Forum locked This topic is locked, you cannot edit posts or make further replies.  [ 8 posts ] 

All times are UTC - 5 hours



You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Jump to:  
cron

Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group  
Copyright Tacticsoft Ltd. 2008   
Updated By phpBBservice.nl