tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post4243109080111530475..comments2024-03-27T08:40:31.785-06:00Comments on Clayton Cramer.: Not A Big Fan Of The Death Penalty, But Articles Like This Make Me Reconsider...Clayton Cramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-58307150618796158782013-10-21T00:05:08.180-06:002013-10-21T00:05:08.180-06:00Willie Horton was serving life without parole for ...Willie Horton was serving life without parole for murder when he was allowed out of prison on an unsupervised furlough.<br /><br />Roger Humphreys was serving 20 to 40 years for a double murder when he was pardoned (his father being a crony of the governor).<br /><br />Winston Mosele was serving life for the murders of Kitty Genovese and two other women when he broke prison. (He was sentenced to death; capital punishment was abolished in New York, and he became eligible for parole.)<br /><br />Jack Henry Abbott was serving 3 to 22 years for killing a fellow inmate when he broke prison, robbed a bank, and got a 19-year additional sentence. He was serving that sentence when his "literary abilities" got him paroled with the assistance of Norman Mailer.<br /><br />No executed murderer has ever escaped or committed another crime.Rich Rostromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13262703348236110420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-39283744465620047702013-10-18T08:38:34.883-06:002013-10-18T08:38:34.883-06:00On the one hand, this story highlights how systems...On the one hand, this story highlights how systems managed by people can fail.<br /><br />Fraudulent modifications to court orders? Or just mistakes?<br /><br />Either way, a system designed to contain murderers has failed.<br /><br />On the reverse side, all sorts of systemic failures can attend the system of generating death sentences. <br /><br />And as RobK comments, the easy-to-convict cases have all the incentive they need to plead down to a life-without-parole sentence.<br /><br />Prisons aren't mentioned in Leviticus or Deuteronomy. But avengers-of-blood are mentioned...families would send an avenger because very little legal structure larger than family/tribal elders existed. Cities of refuge are also mentioned.<br /><br />So is the demand for multiple witnesses in a capital-punishment case.<br /><br />American law has some relation to the moral law found in the Pentateuch, but a larger structural similarity to the old Roman system, and the Courts of Common Law established by the Kings of England.SJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12043843405366080460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-71304456350287859502013-10-17T20:01:50.369-06:002013-10-17T20:01:50.369-06:00The bureaucracy is always the weak link in the cha...The bureaucracy is always the weak link in the chain. Court documentation is not difficult to forge. The difficult part is to get it to be passed through official channels. Either someone in the Clerk of the Court's Office was in on the con, or someone working in the Records section pulled it off. Gladornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036666575371011307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-62877606940010023182013-10-17T18:24:33.567-06:002013-10-17T18:24:33.567-06:00The problem with the death penalty is that most of...The problem with the death penalty is that most of the time it only goes to people who are convicted on circumstantial evidence. The guys who get caught red-handed with lots of witnesses plea bargain and get 60 years or whatever. <br /><br />And whoever decided that imprisonment is a proper punishment in the first place? There's no imprisonment in Leviticus or Deuteronomy.Rob Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15604826633798229422noreply@blogger.com