The Punishment Must Fit The Crime
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Crimes Are Reported Each Day
Watch any news channel you like and you will hear of murders, rapes, child molestations, school shootings, child abductions, robberies, and a ton of other violent crimes. What’s happening? Why can’t people in America just enjoy life? I have an idea of what’s going on.
Punishment Does Not Fit The Crime
I have heard some organizations argue this point, but their argument is usually that the punishments are too harsh for the crimes committed. I say that as a nation we are too soft on crime. For example I checked the sex offender registry for my home county, which is Lee County, AL, and found that 102 convicted sex offenders live here. You want to know how many I think should live here? Zero. That should be a one-strike-and-you’re-out crime.
A New Justice System To Deter Crime
Scenario: A man kills his grandmother because she would not give him drug money.
Result: Expedient trial and swift execution.
Scenario: Person molests a child.
Result: Expedient trial and swift execution.
Scenario: A store clerk is killed during a robbery.
Result: Expedient trial and swift execution.
Scenario: Person abducts a child
Result: Expedient trial and life in prison. No parole. No possibility of being outside the prison walls unless it’s in a pine box.
Can you see where I’m going with this? If there’s a bucket of $20 bills and I walk by and pick one out and nothing happens what will I do? Well the next time I walk by I might grab a couple of twenties and so on. But, if the first time I grabbed a 20 someone cut my hand off I wouldn’t steal another 20. Not with that hand anyway. And at most it would happen one more time before I had to start picking my nose with my elbow. My point is that if there were real consequences for crime and not just some slap on the wrist I promise that crime would be dramatically reduced. Wow! What a concept! Punish people for doing wrong! I wonder why no one has thought of this before? I’ve got news for you, they have. The problem is that the criminals are given more rights than their victims.
Wow, this article fires me up! I have had the same feelings about our judicial system since a few years ago. I cannot remember exactly where the story came from, but a few years ago there was a teenager that set a dog on fire and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. At the same time there was an adult male that beat an elderly woman and put her in the hospital for months and was sentenced to less than 2 years. I never heard one news reporter question the punishment and there were far more headlines and editorials about the dog. Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs, but our society is way out of whack when someone that beats a fellow person gets less of a punishment than harming an animal.
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