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Business? What kind of business?

"A ferret?! NOOOOOOO!! Please, anything but a ferret!!"

Justice isn't about rehabilitating these monsters, or even about 'punishing' them; the worst ones won't earn release and therefore don't need to be taught a lesson.

Most violent offenders cannot be rehabilitated or changed, but they can be stopped. Prison takes their freedom just as they have taken ours. In that regard it is logical and just.

Justice is about upholding the law in a civilised society so that criminals are not on the streets to reoffend. Whether prison is a deterrent or not, is irrelevant. If the law is broken a person must be held accountable within the scope of the law, and the victim must be protected. Case closed. Otherwise, why do we have laws?

Furthermore, victims should not need to testify or give VIS to determine the sentence. The Criminal Code determines sentences. Testifying against violent criminals is just another form of abuse the legal system demands against the most vulnerable members of society, those who have already been traumatised. Speaking as someone who did need to testify against a violent, convicted psychopath and reveal extremely intimate details of the crime in a court of strangers, I can tell you it nearly killed me to relive the story for the sentencing. This was an unnecessary violation of my rights as a sovereign individual, because the perp was already convicted of their crime.

On behalf of other WP members who've experienced violent, sadistic, torturous premeditated crime, on behalf of those WP members including myself who have lost friends and family members to senseless murder, and on behalf of my nephew and his best friend who were butchered by a random gang of strangers, I stand firm that victims' rights come first.

Perps deserve the full extent of the law where they offend, whether that includes incarceration, capital punishment or institutionalisation for mental illness. This keeps victims safe.

the US is the only western country still barbaric enough to use the death penalty.

Business? What kind of business?

There have been two recent fatal vehicle accidents in my small rural community, both involving minors and a very high quantity of alcohol. The one this past weekend was a 15 year old, drunk, who "failed to negotiate a curve" and ended up with his brains splattered on the windshield. The previous one had a 17 year old drunk driver, a minor female passenger and a 14 year old riding in the back of the pickup. This vehicle also "failed to negotiate a curve." The 14 year old was dead at the scene. The 17 year old has been charged with vehicular homicide. He is being tried as an adult.

Do you think the intoxicated teen should spend the rest of his life in jail? (Relating back to the discussion about punishment.)