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life time sentence for persistant US drunk driver
- Thread starter VoG
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Don't see the problem with what he said. Drunk driving is literally an accident waiting to happen.
Man of Honour
Crazy Texas justice that is just OTT.
Soldato
yep, you just said it.
it's an ACCIDENT waiting to happen, no intent to "try" and kill someone.
Man of Honour
So they're jailing him for life because in the future he might kill someone? Minority Report anyone? At least they were certain that the person would kill in the future.
M
M
Trying implies intent. It's not his intent to kill people, it's his disregard for their safety.
Or because he's actively endangering peoples lives...
Man of Honour
Right way of doing it, although tbh, hes going to be funded by tax-payers just to have 3 meals a day, have guards 24/7, not to mention the land being taken up and he'd eventually rot in prison.. I would personally just get it over with and get him executed in a humane manner If I were to set punishments..
I think there is no point in keeping someone in prison for longer than 20 years... as surely, if you manage to get out after 20 years, you won't get much out of your life anyways.
I think the same should be done for murder and manslaughter.
I think there is no point in keeping someone in prison for longer than 20 years... as surely, if you manage to get out after 20 years, you won't get much out of your life anyways.
I think the same should be done for murder and manslaughter.
Soldato
There's a guy over here who has at the time recorded at least 32 driving offences, included are 14 times without insurance, 3 without a license, 7 whilst disqualified and an undisclosed number of times for drink driving, stealing and driving a vehicle, driving without due care and attention as well as dangerous and wreckless driving.
Not to mentioned the 216 other offences since, if I recall correctly 1991, importation of drugs, theft, damage to property and more.
There was a whole hoo hah about giving him a "last chance" in 2009 but if you google his name he had a "last chance" in 2007.
What did he get? 6 months probation, 120 hours of community service and banned from driving for 12 months. Because that clearly stopped him for the past 18 years, right?
Ah well.
Not to mentioned the 216 other offences since, if I recall correctly 1991, importation of drugs, theft, damage to property and more.
There was a whole hoo hah about giving him a "last chance" in 2009 but if you google his name he had a "last chance" in 2007.
What did he get? 6 months probation, 120 hours of community service and banned from driving for 12 months. Because that clearly stopped him for the past 18 years, right?
Ah well.
To be honest if this is his 9th time getting caught id say you could easily times that number by 5 and get the amount of times hes driven drunk and never been caught. A driving ban on someone with such disregard for the law wouldn't work, he would just drive anyway.
Not sure i agree on the sentance though, I feel the same with the 3 strike rule in California.
Not sure i agree on the sentance though, I feel the same with the 3 strike rule in California.
Soldato
Soldato
If they got caught endangering lifes 9 times I'm sure they'd have the same sentence.
Associate
America seriously needs to reconsider the way it uses imprisonment. They have an enormous prison population per capita and yet no evidence that their harsh punishments are detering criminals.