Crazy Crime. The news in recent days has carried what one wishes were an "Urban Legend" kind of nitemare story, a young pregnant woman murdered and her baby cut from her belly by a crazed woman who wanted a child to replace one she had recently lost to miscarriage. Alas, the story is all too real, and, most poignantly, it is almost certain that the evil monster who committed this horrendous crime will get away with it rather than be killed herself.
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Her attorney will almost certainly plead temporary insanity — or insanity more generally — and invoke provisions of the law that permit lunatics to kill with impunity. Legislators who pass such laws should themselves be killed, and the insane laws they wrote repealed.
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Instead, we will pretend that it is "only humane" to forgive violent crimes by lunatics against the rest of us because "they're not responsible". Of course they're responsible. You do something deliberately, you're responsible. End of discussion.
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Scot Peterson is to be killed for (supposedly) killing his pregnant wife. Why should he be killed, for a crime we don't know for sure he committed, but this woman, whom we know with certitude did commit the crime of which she is accused, should not? To quote Dickens' "the law is a ass" is not good enuf. We must fix the law so it is not "a ass".
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There is no justification for this hideous crime, so the full force of the law, the majesty of the state and will of the people to defend the innocent by destroying the guilty, must come into play. The murderess must die. If she is really out of her mind, she won't know what's happening.
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 2:38 PM