[mx-rider]

That scum should have gotten life for such a cold-hearted murder like that, I don’t care what she did for a living. Hopefully he has a big mean bubba waiting for him as a cellmate. Where will this douche bag be sent to do his time?

[JuanSoler]

Most likely he will be sent to El Hongo prison, and it’s not a very nice place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HZ_sPCbBVU

[bajabill]

He’s in deep trouble if he is sent there.

[trekker]

OMG what an awful place but at least I feel there is some small portion of justice if he is ordered to spend his sentence there.

[screeski]

I don’t normally use the term “scum bag” in my vernacular but that certainly seems to apply in this case. So sorry that her family didn’t receive more justice in this sad case but let’s hope that it gets delivered in prison.

[guacamole]

Tragic indeed. A young woman dead, a small boy lost his mother and a family lost their daughter / sister. Life makes absolutely no sense sometimes.

[miraflores]

I remember this story when it happened and still wonder what rage that young man carried inside of him to commit so horrific a crime like this? El Hongo will either straighten him out or forever break him, that’s a horrible place.

[blitzer]

The inmates at Hongo are going to torture that slimeball and then eat him alive. He won’t last a year there.

[paranewbi]

The failure of a justice system is that we have formed the mindset that the imprisoned is being ‘punished’ for their actions. That should not be the conclusion, as in this case most won’t even think of this guy after awhile.

What is missed is that there is no preventive image to cause others to not do the same. The results of someones actions that causes incarceration should be the deterrence we need it to be. But when that is the final thought and the punishment disappears behind walls, it is no longer a deterrence.

I’m not sure I’m ready to endorse public display of punishment but I remember a book about the women who made the trek across this country on wagon trains. The book was a collection of letters home and in one of them the woman writer recounted the occurrence of a member of the ‘train’ who shot a young Indian girl sitting on a tree stump just observing the ‘white people’ strangers.

The Tribe forced the travelers to hand the man who did it over, and then while demanding the entire collection of white people, children and all, to be present, they tied the man to a pole and two elders of the Tribe skinned him alive. The image of the man being cut loose and running to a nearby river and throwing himself in the water, probably left a strong image on those people to not mess with Indian children.

Prison does nothing to deter crime… it’s just where we hide away what we can’t stomach.

[trekker]

True but you really think it’s at all likely there will be any public floggings, skinnings or anything similar?

[paranewbi]

Not likely… although we’re getting close to it in our politics (not to get political).

[nashsimpson]

It’s curious to me as it seems the more we humans learn and develop new, advanced technologies, it appears the more brutal and primitive we often become in other areas of our social makeup. Who knows? Maybe the Unabomber was on to something with his manifesto.

[trekker]

From Tijuana strip clubs to the unabomber? This thread certainly took on a life of its own.

[trekker]

Oh… that’s right! His manifesto was all about raging at industry at how technology was destroying society or something like that, correct?