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Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A... by mindslight on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @05:02PM (#10780667)
Why not simply advocate for killing them then? I'm not personally arguing for this, but it would be more honest than purporting to settle on a fixed term while actually creating a shadow life sentence.
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Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A... by jfoutz on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @05:34PM (#10780829)
It's also completely abandoning any notion of rehabilitation. Prison, in no sense, rehabilitates people, but at least some level of redemption should be possible. It seems as though prison no longer pays back the convict's debt to society.
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Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A... by tptacek on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:41PM (#10781534)
There may be no approach to rehabilitating serial child rapists that will not in some way shock our conscience.
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Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A... by jfoutz on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:17PM (#10781758)
Then make it capital offense, or a life sentence. I'd be willing to accept that certain kinds of criminals can't be rehabilitated. But (apparently) some jury of his peers decided 15 years + psychiatric care was enough.

I don't care so much what the rules are, I care that the rules are consistent

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