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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 4, 2011 at 2:33am

Oh, and if you agree that animal killers should not go unpunished, please sign my petition for a local issue here in South Carolina:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/woman-hangs-and-burns-dog/

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Permalink Reply by Moria Jackson on February 4, 2011 at 2:47am

I am a firm believer in the death penalty.  I think all confirmed (or admitted) murderers, rapists, child molesters, and the like, should be done away with.  Animal abusers/killers I don't think deserve a death penalty or even a life in prison.  Maybe a few years, a fine, and some shelter work, depending on the severity of the crime.  I am more interested in getting people off the streets who harm other humans.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 4, 2011 at 3:11am

I believe in the death penalty as well, but only in extreme cases. I feel strongly on sentencing for animal abuse because many serial killers began with killing animals. They also did it on the side for fun. Also, if you can torture an innocent animal, you could be capable of harming a child. Maybe they should not receive the death penalty, but lenience shouldn't be granted either. Probation is no sentence at all if you ask me. They should get at least 5 years. Maybe I am harsh, but I think animal abuse falls into the same rotten category as the others. Thanks for the response :)

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Permalink Reply by Julien on February 4, 2011 at 3:20am

I don't oppose harsher penalties for torturing or killing animals either. I think people need some examples to be made so they would think twice before they do it themselves. But, if we're talking about abusing and stuff, I can't wait for the day when filling your child's head with religious nonsense would be considered child abuse and illegal as well. That will be the day we got closer to normality and the day when we can actually say we have made progressed as a species.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 4, 2011 at 3:32am

I, too, say that teaching your kids about satan and burning in hell should be considered child abuse. It causes severe emotional anxiety and the fear of satan torments some people for the rest of their lives.

 

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Permalink Reply by Julien on February 4, 2011 at 2:55am

You can always become president and bomb the shit out of another country... I don't care much for the death penalty, it shows how much we really have evolved that we can't find a better solution. I am against violence in any form, and the death penalty is just fighting fire with fire.

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Permalink Reply by Julien on February 4, 2011 at 2:58am

Inmates should be divided based on their sentence, so it will calm things down. You don't put a guy that serves a few years with a guy that has nothing to lose anymore, that's just stupid. The guy who only serves a few years has less chances of increasing his sentence if he has less factors that could provoke him to do so.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 4, 2011 at 3:07am

I agree, but they are placed together all of the time. My dad, for instance, had a 15 year sentence. He was placed in maximum security and had to witness some fucked up stuff from the life -sentencers. He's seen people killed, raped, beaten. He said that there were cliques and groups. The inmates divided themselves, really. He said there is more racism than anything in prison. Sad. Someone experiences nothing but hate for 15 years and then they are expected to come out nomal. That is why many people continue to commit crime. Prison life is all they know and society is what is scary for them.

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Permalink Reply by Julien on February 4, 2011 at 3:13am

It does them no good, not even if they divide themselves. If they divide themselves, the dangerous ones know better whom they should pick on first. They should be completely separated and those that cause trouble should be isolated based on what they've done and if they do it again, isolated more. There is really no one way to deal with prisons and inmates, but we certainly can do better than now.

 

Why was your father in prison?

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 4, 2011 at 3:35am

O, I meant they divided themselves into cliques. They were still around eachother's violence and hate. I agree that it is unacceptable for them to be mixed in with eachother. If one thing is for sure, the life-sentencers should be seperate from all others.

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Permalink Reply by Julien on February 4, 2011 at 4:18am

Sure, separate the life-sentencers, then separate the ones left by what they've done. Murderers with murderers, robbers with robbers, etc. At least this way they only have to deal with their own kind.

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Permalink Reply by BryanPaul on February 4, 2011 at 3:04am

Don't know about animal killers. I kill some every year. Deer mainly but I take it you mean pets and such. Prison is not so good if you put say a bank robber with other robbers. They will pick up the skills to be better. They learn for one another. If you get ten years hard time and get out, your a harder person maybe even a killer now even if you weren't before you went in. If they are sentenced to death I think they should be strapped in the chair within a month. I think rape should be as heavily sentenced as murder if not more so. I think the proof should be overwhelming if you get the death sentence. By the way, the shelters kill animals after a set time. Should we do something about this and if so what?

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