[*BCM*] Drunk driver gets 10 1/2 years for killing cyclist

[Jim Leonard]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 06:33:06PM -0500, Eric A. Stratton wrote:
> 10.5 years is so little for the cost of a human life.  This is  

And yet 10.5 years might as well be a yet another lifetime.  This isn't
rehabilitation, this is vengence.  Jail is a deterrent, but at some point 
you have diminishing returns.  Putting her in jail doesn't bring back a 
life and probably hurts many others.  It is arguably making the world 
safer but isn't there a better way?

I don't know that I have the right answer, but I can't see putting 
someone in prison for 10 years doing anybody any good.

--jim


> terrible to hear about, and I think she really earned this sentence.   
> She was driving on a suspended license according to the article, for a  
> prior DUI.  How dumb do people have to be.
> 
> -E
> 
> On Jan 24, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Jym Dyer wrote:
> 
> >
> > | ... because she had "taken out" a "tree hugger, a bicyclist,
> > | a Frenchman and a gay guy all in one shot."
> >
> > =v= Excerpts from the recorded conversation are in this video:
> >
> > http://www.kgun9.com/NewsArticle/tabid/1112/xmid/18220/Default.aspx
> >
> >    <_Jym_>
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