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Violent convicts deserve to stay in state’s prisons

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

(Updated 3:00 am)

I fail to understand how this state’s legal system, here to protect citizens and prosecute violent criminals to the fullest extent of the law by placing them in prison for as long as is deemed necessary, has failed us.

I will never be impressed or affected in any way by the seemingly miraculous “finding of God” and smiling faces of criminals now poised for an early release — including ones who once stole the innocence forever of a child or destroyed a family with murder!

Apparently we cared about the victim at the time of the crime, but no more. Now we are focused on the “rights” of the criminal.

What rights? They gave away those rights a long time ago when they stole the rights of others.

Who said to the victims that all this would be re-examined in 20 to 30 years? I personally hope that these criminals and all those instrumental in getting them released, if they are, will find themselves in hell, and quickly!

Kathryn Easter
Greensboro

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Lakeshia

November 5, 2009 - 10:36 am EST

Could not have happened without the graduates of our fine law schools -
I'm betting that 99.9 percent of all the men and women instrumental in the release of these violent criminals have graduated from law school and are licensed to practice law in the state of North Carolina -

brian444

November 5, 2009 - 12:50 pm EST

Don't blame the law schools. The legal system is only doing what it's supposed to do: enforce the law as it's written. Blame the Democratic legislature c. 1980; they're the geniuses who wrote the laws.

Lakeshia

November 5, 2009 - 2:53 pm EST

And what percent of our state legislature do you think are (and were) lawyers and how many lawyers do you think the state legislature employes?

truth

November 5, 2009 - 11:26 am EST

I can see arguing that these folks stay behind bars as both a punishment and to protect the public from any future crime. However, wishing them and others into hell is possibly a worse intention, in my book.