Are You All on-Board With Three Strikes Sentencing in Criminal Proceedings?
Question by Blackbeauty: Are you all on-board with Three Strikes sentencing in criminal proceedings?
Do you feel it may go overboard in some instances?
Best answer:
Answer by whyisallofmyhairfallingout
No, I feel 1 strike in rape, murder, abortion, should be plenty.
Answer by keengrrl76
The way you’ve asked the two separate questions makes giving an answer a bit convoluted.
No to the first question and yes to the second.
“Three strikes” rules were enacted by self-serving and fearmongering politicians seeking three terms in office. They all need three strikes upside the head with a piece of rebar.
A life sentence for a third possession of a minor drug while a rapist gets out in eight years makes no sense. Also don’t not forget the horrendous cost of locking up certain criminals for 20 years or more, or that most of those who end up on “three strikes” are the ones that were easy for the pigs to catch, ie. drug users rather than dealers.
“Three strikes” is as obscene and biased as the “death penalty”: it’s a rule targeted at the poorest and least educated of all criminals, and often in the case of “three strikes”, the least harmful.
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