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I don't care, I'm 100% pro-Death Penalty and I'm hardcore on this issue....nothing will EVER make me water down my belief in those who commit the most heinous crimes should be subjected to the ULTIMATE punishment....that of denying THEM their life.

I guess I subscribe to the thought that putting people to death only makes us murderers. Essentially all other civilized countries have abolished the death penalty as they regard it as barbaric. Hell, the "Chessboard Killer" in Russia (who was convicted on 48 counts of murder, suspected of many more, and gloated at his sentencing) was given a life sentence. Russia.

I also subscribe to the thought that human rights are non-negotiable and cannot be bargained away or discarded. If life is of value, then all life is of value - not just lives of those we like, admire, and respect.

IF the anti-Death Penalty crowd would have had their way, in all probability Ted Bundy and John Gacy would have been paroled by now....because they NEVER would have been executed in the first place, because "they're human beings too", "they're victims too"....which I totally disagree on BOTH points.

There is such a thing as life without parole. Of the several rationales for lifetime incarceration, I would imagine that Bundy and Gacy would've been excellent candidates under the guise of retribution and incapacitation.

Regardless of the plea bargin thing, Ferrell SHOULD be getting like 25 years with NO parole, and not 2 years and she's out in 1 year.

I find it interesting that you know what should happen in this case, seeing as how you don't know the details of this case. Neither do I, but I am not advocating a specific sentence. Perhaps Cutts coerced her into helping him. Perhaps she did not know what she was getting in to. Also, take careful note of the word bargain. In other words, there's got to be something in it for the accused to plead guilty - otherwise they have no motivation to assist the prosecution.

Where's the innocent victim, the pregnant woman going to be in a year....that's right, she's still going to be rotting in the cold ground and turning to dust.

What about the victims family, they have to face life everyday, without their loved one and the further added kick in the teeth, is that the POS who HELPED put their loved one in the cold ground, she gets to walk the earth again in a year.

There's a reason why our criminal justice system does not allow victims to decide the punishment of the condemned. That's because they are, by-and-large, unable to maintain a sense of objectivity and proportion because of the very heavy emotional toll that events have taken on them. I'm not saying that those feelings are invalid, or that we should not be angry, outraged, and sickened by these sorts of things. We should. But that does still not allow us to do as we please. Whether or not these people are executed, the victim is still going to be in the ground. Nothing can take that back, and nothing can undo it.

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