Just bumping this thread with a link to an article about Dr. Petit’s August wedding
If anyone deserves a second chance at happiness, it’s Dr. Petit.
Capital punishment is wrong, always and everywhere. There are no exceptions.
We mustn’t be too dogmatic about these things.
I vote for the death penalty, I mean how do you put a zombie in prison for life?
We shouldn’t put dogs to death either!
Give me one good reason why not.
Update on the Hawke-Petit home invasion and murders. The murderers, Komisarjevsky and Hayes, remain on death row. (When Gov. Rell vetoed a bill ending the death penalty in Connnecticut, she mentioned this case.) Dr. Petit remarried last year, with the blessing of his late wife’s parents. His story was featured in Esquire magazine earlier this year.
And at 9pm on Monday, HBO will present a documentary on the case. Per the review in the New Haven Register, the documentary will criticize the actions (or lack thereof) of the Cheshire Police. Remember that one of the criminals drove Ms. Hawke-Petit to the bank to withdraw money. While standing at the bank, she told the teller what was happening to her family. The teller, of course, called 911. So the police knew about the situation while Ms. Hawke-Petit and her daughters were still alive.
A horrible crime, to b sure.
But killing anyone else won’t erase the crimes. It won’t bring back anyone to life. It won’t save anyone else’s life.
All it will do is slake our thirst for vengeance. That’s a horrible reason to take a human’s life.
Life with no parole.
Hopefully, someone will see fit to commute these sentences.
I respectfully disagree with all but the first two lines.
Life without parole won’t erase the crimes. It won’t bring back anyone to life. It might maybe save someone else’s life.
All it will definitely do is slake our thirst for vengeance. That’s a horrible reason to keep someone locked up forever.
It will keep them from killing anyone else, which is the primary role of the penal system.
If you click on the link now it brings you to a picture of Charles and Camilla.
Oh yeah, the Petit killers. If any people deserve the death penalty it’s them. Same with the Knoxville carjackers. Even if they had gotten life without parole maybe in a few decades the supreme court will say that 21 years is a maximum sentence and let them go, since the Supreme Court has kept softening maximum sentences for things over the years.
William and Katy for me. I’m still voting for hanging them, though.
It’s the thread that keeps on giving.
Bingo. Life without parole is not intended to exact vengeance. It’s intended to protect society from any further depredations.
Isn’t that a straw man fallacy, though? (I haven’t looked at fallacy definitions in a while…) Nobody has ever said that executing these guys will erase a crime. Neither that it would bring anyone back to life.
Saving a life? Maybe, maybe not. I don’t think that crimes of this nature are one-offs. Witness Ted Bundy.
These guys deserve severe punishment. Life, anywhere, under any circumstances??? They took life/lives, and were not at all sad about it, and they even went out of their ways to give the victims false hope. They had a lot of time to think over their actions while they were committing their crime. A lot of time.
Even at the risk of having a thirst slaked, these guys need to take the dirt nap.
Today is the sixth anniversary of the invasion and murders.
Also, here is an article from the Hartford Courant reviewing tapes of calls placed to and from the police. The Cheshire police was suspicious of the story Ms. Hawke-Petit told the tellers, and later were preparing for stand-off at the house, which is why they didn’t act sooner.
Yes, Bundy killed more than once, but following his conviction, he didn’t kill anyone. Because he was placed in prison, as opposed to jail.
Why? Specifically, what purpose does it serve? I don’t wish to straw-man a reason, so you tell me: why?
They couldn’t kill someone while in prison? Or are the lives of the other inmates and prison employees expendable.
And you ever heard of Willie Horton?
Maybe all the “life in prison” people should be willing to house these defendants and make sure they never kill again.
I have to admit some confusion. If not the death penalty or a life sentence, then what?