I won’t rant. I just won’t. But check out this story on the BBC regarding a sick piece of **** who raped his two daughters over a period of time – he was found guilty of 25 incidents. They were made pregnant 19 times between them, gave birth to nine children (two died at birth) and miscarried or aborted the rest.
He systematically abused his own children, then used their own feelings for their own incestuous offspring to threaten them into not telling about it all.
A judge gave him a lengthy sentence, ordering he serve a minimum of 19½ years. Harsh by our pathetic standards, nowhere near enough but well done to the judge in question.
Only he’s appealed and had that minimum sentence dropped by five years in line with those imposed for “serious murder“.
I won’t get into how rape compares to murder. How removing one’s life can be worse or not as bad as destroying what remains of it. How 19½ years isn’t long enough in the first place. How any murder can’t be “serious”. How raising the minimum for “serious murder” would be a better idea rather than lowering other sentences to match.
I just won’t. Because I don’t need to. Because any right-minded person knows all this already.
What galls me is how the system doesn’t seem to be run by right-minded people.
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I totally agree. Even though Texas has the highest rate of executions for murder, it still goes too light on other crimes. So, I feel the same. Sometimes, I am sad to be a “bleeding heart liberal”. I guess in respect of the death sentence, I am more conservative. Wow, now I have material for my blog. Thanks!
I’m still anti-death sentence, purely on the basis that one wrong conviction is one too many. Much as I would love to see filth like this person hanged, drawn and quartered it’s just not worth it if one other person slips throught he cracks and is wrongly put to death.
However, we should be punishing people. I know we’re supposed to be rehabilitating and all that nonsense, but the idea of a prison is to deter people from crime in the first place. If we make sentences too short an the stay too comfortable then where’s the deterrent?