Justice and Compassion

When Compassion is Cruel: Justice demands that killers serve out their full sentences – Reason Magazine.

Definitely bears thinking on. My first reaction when I heard this was to think it would be alright to let her out. As always, I try not to take a position that I can’t be dislodged from, and this article did it.

September 7th, 2009 in General

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AnneSeptember 7th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

“The truth is we are all going to die, and if we prefer not to do it in prison, we have the option of not committing crimes whose punishment might get in the way of our last wishes.”

Exactly… If you don’t want to die in prison, don’t do the crime. Plus, she showed her victim, and her unborn baby, absolutely no mercy, so does not deserve any for herself.