• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Your point would be valid if it was about possessing drugs or some other non-violent crime instead of attempted murder.

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      20 days ago

      He planned on torturing them first. I think it’s the whole planning and then following through on it aspect that got him life.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      20 days ago

      He wasn’t convicted of Attempted Murder. He was convicted of:

      Federal: 30 years

      • Kidnapping
      • First-degree burglary
      • False imprisonment of an elder

      State: Life without parole

      • Aggravated kidnapping resulting in bodily harm
      • False imprisonment of an elder or dependent adult
      • Threatening family of public officials
      • First degree residential burglary
      • Preventing or dissuading a witness by force or threat

      Serious crimes for certain, but for someone with no prior violent convictions for 42 years, and clear mental health issues, life imprisonment is nothing more than throwing a person away because we lack the compassion to offer an actual functioning correctional system with mental health care.

      As a prison reformist, I strongly oppose this sentence.

    • pinkystew@reddthat.com
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      21 days ago

      stop saying “prison should exist because of this one case”

      there will always be extreme cases that need to be handled differently from the default setting. but the default setting should not be prison, it should be rehabilitation.