Breaking News: "US Courts Full of Shit"

This kind of thing really pisses me off.

Malvo was NOT held hostage to take part in the crime. He has never offered any plea that suggested any such lack of culpability. The fact that the Courts rationalize that "the state cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity" just doesn't hold water. A "mature understanding"??? I guarantee there are plenty of felons on death row who had not gained, and still have not gained any kind of emotional, decision-making maturity when they committed their crimes. What does 17 or 18 have to do with making such a determination?

Nothing.

It's bogus. The Justices have sent a message saying "If you're under 18 and you commit a 'heinous' crime, the worst that happens is you spend the rest of your life in prison."

Wrong! I'm don't absolutely believe that the best way to stop an action is by increasing the severity of the punishment, but for people who willingly engage in MURDER, there can be no deterrent that will stop them from committing their intended act. They can't be reformed and put back into society. They aren't deterred by the death penalty, but it's certainly more of a consequence to consider than life amongst other felons.

Where's fuckin' Hammurabbi when you need him?

I lived in the DC area during the sniper shootings. In fact, I was out and about the morning the first shootings in Metro area occurred and when my girlfriend couldn't get ahold of me (knowing I was at a meeting in the vicinity of those first few shootings) she got freaked out. Rightfully so, I suppose.

Although the intensity of the "DC Sniper Shootings" has unquestionably calmed in the 2+ years since they happened, anyone living in the area then can still remember how fucked up it was that random people where being gunned down in cold-blood and in seemingly random locations around the VA-DC-MD area. Yes, our fears helped create a feeling of indefinite panic and anxiety about doing the most simple things: walking along a street, playing outside during recess, filling our car with gas, walking out of a restaurant.

It seemed like "the Sniper" had no boundaries as to where he shot people or whom he chose to kill. Living in Virginia and working in Bethesda, just beyond the DC city limits, I was familiar with nearly every site of the Sniper shootings and had been in those same locations at one time or another.

This guy knew what he was doing. And for his willing role in essentially terrorizing the half-million residents of the immediate DC area, he should face the ultimate consequence- Death. But it looks like he'll live out the rest of his days, just like that psycho Manson.