Larry Gude
Strung Out
Without hesitation...
17. Remember when you were 17? Did you do stupid things? Surely, but did you engage in a plan to sytematically assassinate human beings?
I have no doubt that to a huge degree John Mohamed influenced and even 'brainwashed' the youngster. Was he talked into selling some grass? Scamming little old ladies out of their Social Security checks?
It is one thing to say a kid that done wrong and was heavily influenced into doing some crimes needs or maybe deserves a second chance.
It is entirely another to say that same kid, after helping pull the trigger on innocent human beings and kill them, end their lives, deserves anything more than extinction.
The point is that, to me, there is such a thing as going too far and a court and a judge, for justice to mean anything, MUST be able to say 'this here crime goes beyond the line and this kid must pay with his life.'
We always forget, once the bodies are long in the ground, what the victim lost. We turn to focusing on what is left, the perps life.
Malvo didn't shoot some fellow gangbanger in a driveby. He put cross hairs on total strangers, without provocation or motive and played God.
To put it another way, if we say 'young Malvo cannot pay with his life for his crime because he was too young and did not know what he was doing aren't we also saying to young Malvo 'we will punish you not at all because you were to young to know what you were doing.'
Anti death penalty folks argue all the time that long prison sentences are worse than death anyway. So, if it is cruel and unusual to put to death someone under 18, then isn't it also cruel and unusual to lock him up for a long time?
Lastly, what is the point of the judge and jury if they cannot pass judgment?
The victims MUST be more important than their murderer.
This is insane.
Lastly, the only thing cruel and unusual about this, Malvo in particular, was riding around in the trunk of a car murdering people.
17. Remember when you were 17? Did you do stupid things? Surely, but did you engage in a plan to sytematically assassinate human beings?
I have no doubt that to a huge degree John Mohamed influenced and even 'brainwashed' the youngster. Was he talked into selling some grass? Scamming little old ladies out of their Social Security checks?
It is one thing to say a kid that done wrong and was heavily influenced into doing some crimes needs or maybe deserves a second chance.
It is entirely another to say that same kid, after helping pull the trigger on innocent human beings and kill them, end their lives, deserves anything more than extinction.
The point is that, to me, there is such a thing as going too far and a court and a judge, for justice to mean anything, MUST be able to say 'this here crime goes beyond the line and this kid must pay with his life.'
We always forget, once the bodies are long in the ground, what the victim lost. We turn to focusing on what is left, the perps life.
Malvo didn't shoot some fellow gangbanger in a driveby. He put cross hairs on total strangers, without provocation or motive and played God.
To put it another way, if we say 'young Malvo cannot pay with his life for his crime because he was too young and did not know what he was doing aren't we also saying to young Malvo 'we will punish you not at all because you were to young to know what you were doing.'
Anti death penalty folks argue all the time that long prison sentences are worse than death anyway. So, if it is cruel and unusual to put to death someone under 18, then isn't it also cruel and unusual to lock him up for a long time?
Lastly, what is the point of the judge and jury if they cannot pass judgment?
The victims MUST be more important than their murderer.
This is insane.
Lastly, the only thing cruel and unusual about this, Malvo in particular, was riding around in the trunk of a car murdering people.
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