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Continuing from the preceding post

How much discrepancy there is in the punishment in the federal criminal law let alone that among the states?

In addition to having better laws as the primary solution  there seems to be a helping thing that could be used federally and also for any state that has in its constitution the power for an entity to pardon and commute sentences. For example, Congress could itself vote or delegate to an entity that could also be of its creation voting on recommending to the President pardoning or commuting the sentence for cases like the one mentioned in the preceding post. In other words, the constitutional power of the President to pardon and commute sentencing can be used to help correct or fine-tune application of the law.

Cases like this where no moral authority is needed to forgive for taking the right of a victim to live, are much more suitable for taking into consideration reducing punishment because of factors that could have affected a person toward choosing the criminal path. At least the victims themselves in the case mentioned in the preceding post for example could have been asked if a punishment like the one that has already passed now is enough as a punishment.   

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THIS is the guy to whom I was referring in the preceding post and THIS is his story according to the show.

The guy showed none violent tendency and despite his adventurous risk taking attitude with intolerance to stay in prison. Also his failing to make the girls support his alibi does not support him being a psychopath otherwise he probably would have been better at managing his personal relationships. 

Not much behaviour was reported for his two young accomplices but one could hardly see them as professional criminals with their accentual firing and probably also the way they tried to distance themselves from the situation.

HERE is another link for the sentencing which I am still not clear if it does or does not include the possibility for parole. In any case I wonder how much a behaviour suggesting respecting a line for human life not to be crossed was taken into consideration in comparison with other cases where that line was crossed. 

      

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I just watched a TV real story show about a guy who was sentenced to life in prison without parole. While others could kill and get relatively low punishments that gets even lower and lower with additional reasons starting from not being "premeditated" and going on, this guy, although  participated in armed robbery and abduction of the bank teller to do that and escaped multiple times from prison and done another bank robbery, never pulled the trigger on anyone. He was only 19 and who knows how after several years in prison and with genuine reforming effort done to him his character could change if the tendency for crime repetition was the reason for that sentence. So, I don't know how much of that sentencing was because people here see things upside down and how much of it because the guy is black.        

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Continuing from the preceding post:

I have just chosen to always moderate before letting a comment published, in order to be informed about the existence of the comment. This means until I read the comment it will not be published. This is the only way I found here to enable finding what comments were posted throughout my blog without actively looking at all my posts. Otherwise I am not inclined to do a censorship. I provided a feed back about the issue and letting a comment wait may not be a requirement to be emailed about its existence in the future.

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I have been wondering why with all those in the public agreeing with the stand of the Supreme Court on the Second Amendment no body argue back against what I write here. However, I just noticed a little while ago that I had no comment capability by anonymous authors for this blog so I changed that. Now anyone can comment without revealing any identity.