The Rantings of SpikeRants

Okay, so I don't know if the article is on this website. Probably not, as this one focuses on local events and major national ones. But I was at work reading CNN on my phone today, and I saw this article that piqued my interest:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/31/teen.sentenced.ap/ind
ex.html

The headline is "Teen girl gets 53 years for killing romantic rival." I thought to myself as I read it, "Bet any man involved is in for life with no parole and up for the death penalty."

Imagine my suprise when I read that the man involved got a lesser sentence on a plea deal. Suprise that a man got a lesser sentence, and suprise that anybody equally involved in the case got a lesser sentence.

Now, I'm happy that she's being locked up. I NEVER thought of killing any of my wife's previous boyfriends, though I didn't like them too much. Anybody who kills outside of self defense should be locked away, and I say kill them too. That's just me. I'm also happy that HE'S being locked up, since he was involved in the murder as well. But the shocker was that, in many of the cases I have read, the man gets more time than the woman.

Take, for instance, the case in Canada. A husband and wife videotape themselves having sex with her sister. The details are a bit fuzzy, but some girl (the wife's sister or another girl) was brutally raped and murdered. She's out now, got out about a year ago. Canada was up in arms about it, as any decent citizenry should be. But the man is still locked up, never to be released. They did the SAME CRIME, but paid different times. I believe it was even said that the man "MADE" the wife do these things. Sorry, but I don't believe in the "this person MADE me feel/think/do this way/thing" excuse. Okay, rape, sure, that's different. But when somebody says, "You MADE me angry." Um, excuse me, but I didn't know I had mental powers to affect your emotions. Maybe you meant you became angry at what I did, but that's different. I don't see how ANYBODY can "MAKE" you molest, rape and murder a child. That's horse-hockey.

There's a bias in the teenage-girl romance murder. It is towards the male, but it's probably due to a plea agreement. If a woman did a plea deal, I'd say the same thing (for those that think I hate all women.) He'll probably get more time now that he's retracted his guilty plea; however, I still feel it should be the same sentence, since it was the same crime. And if he does get a steeper sentence, I'll be upset then about that. No wonder I'm getting an ulcer.

On another note, there's another article about a man who killed his neighbor because his 2-year-old daughter said he molested her (http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/31/neighbor.stabbing.ap
/). I have to side with ANY parent who would do anything to protect their child. Murder is extreme, but I know I've thought of somebody hurting my son, and I feel I could get to that point. What should his sentence be? Prison. That's what police are there for, to handle monsters like that molester. But I think the protection of his child should be taken into consideration during the trial, since that could drive any parent to extremes.

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