Eeep! A comment of mine that I deleted was accidentally included in my quote of Kambucta. It wasn’t intentional at all, and I apologize.
Man, you really don’t like me, do you? 
To call you on that, yes, I do know how to cut and paste it, and yes, I was being lazy. I could search for the link myself, but because the server here at my job takes a good five minutes to do a search and I couldn’t remember much about the link (time, forum, etc.), I opted not to bother. But, the subject matter has been discussed, and anyone interested can follow through with their own search if they so desire.
As for Flyhalf’s statement, who says going to jail is “getting off free”? A lot of people end up essentially getting tortured in prison. Even if they’re in there for a few short years, it all usually happens in the first year that most of the trauma one suffers in prison takes place. Unless they’re incredibly weak, in which case, it could last their entire sentence. And once they get out, they have a record. They’ll be incredibly limited in the types of jobs they can get, they’ll never be able to earn a decent living, and any chance they have at gaining a decent living will be destroyed if anyone finds out about the reason for their incarceration. Depending on their background and social upbringing, they most likely will fall back into another criminal situation and end up in jail again, if not multiple times.
They’re lives will be over, only they’ll still be living. Is that enough suffering to make up for their crime? Many people will say no. But they don’t “get to go free.”
And that should be “their lives.” Oi.
Just to clear things up a little…
I am not advocating the death penalty.
I am advocating slow and painful torture because there’s no guarantee there’s even a hell waiting for these pricks.
If I believed in hell I could then believe they would suffer endlessly for the harm they caused.
Executing these perps would be letting them off way too easy.
I know you are joking, but the truth is, I rarely look at the names of who is posting. If you asked me to recall a single other thing you had posted I would be unable to do so, and that goes for almost everyone. The biggest problem as a result is that I have a hard time keeping track of who doesn’t like me heh.
Read the part where I say they’re not getting off scott free.
And all of that is much much worse than being dead let me tell you…
Although I have to say that I agree with Feynn. Extreme forms of torture would satisfy me (with death as the result of course).
Alright, I’d like to chime in on this whole deal.
Firstly, I am 13 myself. Likely a few years younger than whoever it was that decided it’d be cool to drop a rock off an overpass, but hey, all the better for proving my point. That being: Who the fuck cares if they were “kids”? I don’t. At all. I’m 13, and I know damn well you don’t throw boulders off of a bridge.
You know that movie “The Good Son”? When watching, at probably 8 or 9 (heh, I’m not that twisted), I was first made aware of this whole throwing stuff off of bridges phenomonon. And then, I knew you don’t do that shit. The lady who gets hit by twisted little McCauly’s blow up doll swerves (and possibley dies, I cannot remember). These kids/whoever had the mental capacity to realise this. And hey, maybe it was just a good hearted prank! And maybe that guy who broke into some old lady’s house just wanted to steal $50 for crack, with no intentions of killing her. It just, eh, happened!
And with that, punish them to the full extent of the law. Try them as adults, give then 20 years without parole, all that jazz. Full shot, I say.
In a related story, my dad once knew a guy that got something thrown at him from an overpass. Said guy drove his car up, got the kid who threw the thing at him, and hung him by his ankles over the highway. Some random passer-by came along, and the first guy told him to call the police. The guy ended up getting arrested for assault (you know, the whole hanging by ankles bit is frowned upon, I guess) but got off without any problem. Heh, that is justice.
DrewG27: Thanks for the insight.
BTW, your dad’s anecdote reminds me of a car-jacking incident in Scottsdale (suburb of Phoenix). Car-jacker with a gun pulls open a guy’s car door–and the driver shoots him in the kneecap with a .357 Magnum. Driver is found not guilty because he was in “clear and present danger.”
I think the death penalty is in order, and I do not know that these were teenagers. Not does anyone else.
I don’t belive it was a case of “they didn’t consider the consequences of their actions”, but a case of “they didn’t care”.