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Get Back in the Car

Ruby Hawk @RubyHawk (99367) • Atlanta, Georgia 4 Aug 17

In an earlier discussion I wrote about the girl who told her boyfriend to get back in the car when he was committing suicide. She had encouraged him to commit suicide for months and in this instance he was in his truck breathing...

wanton reckless conduct

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Murder and sentencing.

Netsbridge @Netsbridge (3253) • United States 20 Nov 09

Years ago, someone is murdered in Texas by a passenger shooter. The shooter gets life imprisonment but the driver gets a death sentence. The driver, a man with a lengthy criminal history, claims up to his death that he had no...

life imprisonment

robert lee thompson

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Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime?

BubblyIan @BubblyIan (750) 27 Oct 08

In 1997 Tony Blair campaigned for the election with a number of slogans - this was one of them. It convinced me to vote for him then. Do you believe that Labour have failed on one or both of these? And for non-UK readers, do you...

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Death penalty

know21 @know21 (1250) • United States 8 Oct 08

Do you think instead of sentencing someone to death we should send them to fight in war or to a work camp or something useful instead of killing them?

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How old's to old to go to jail?

SomeCowgirl @SomeCowgirl (32189) • United States 20 Jul 08

I was watching a show on the t.v. today which featured a woman who shot her husband repeatedly in the chest while sleeping. This man had a history of abuse, and from what I gathered four ex wives. I saw a picture and he wore...

serious discussion

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The presidential veto on law ...

bellaofchaos @bellaofchaos (11538) • United States 2 Feb 08

I'm going to get right to the point on this one. Should a Judge be allowed to lessen the sentence made by a jury of peers? Now adays it's not uncommon for a jury to give the criminal a harder sentence than a judge. So my...

getting away with murder

lighter sentences

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Are Police that commit crimes afforded more leniency in their sentences?

fpd1955 @fpd1955 (2074) • United States 21 Mar 07

I can remember, a few years back, when an off duty Policeman hit and killed a pregnant woman and her two children while crossing a street in Brooklyn. He started drinking on precinct property and contimued to do so at a bar/strip...

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Pedophiles - What To Do with Them?

jennybianca @jennybianca (12912) • Australia 25 Feb 07

The problem of how to stop Pedaphiles from ever committing a crime, and if they do, what kind of sentencing they should have, is of ever growing concern. In my own city, there is one 74 year old repeat offender who has breached...

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Is fifteen years behind bars enough?

Outsider @Outsider (42) • Canada 20 Jan 07

My eighteen-year-old son's girlfriend was attacked at knife-point recently, abducted and raped. Excellent police work accompanied by a little luck brought the perpetrator to justice almost immediately... and he was found guilty...

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death penalty---what are your views??

Judobird @Judobird (88) 17 Dec 06

o.k so I was reading in the paper about a botched execution that took place a few days ago in America and it made me think as to whether this type of punishment is valid or not in this day and age so I was wondering what everyone...

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2 & 7 years for kidnap and rape of two young girls. What is up with that?

purplewolf @purplewolf (462) • Canada 15 Nov 06

I was watching the news last night and the Canadian justice system never ceases to amaze me! I heard about a couple in Winnipeg that kidnapped and raped two girls ages 13 & 14. One was released after being repeatedly raped and the...

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Hanging

funguy @funguy (148) 25 Sep 06

Should public hanging be brought back? If so why and if NOT, why NOT?

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