Sisters serving life get early release for kidney transplant

[Chris Wallace]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/kidney_share_deal_frees_miss_sisters_bVPZEX95lLJYL6T2LcNLPP

 

[terry78]

Yeah, it's been all over the news. The one getting it sounds dumb as ****, but hey.

 

[Wylie Times]

They shouldn't have had life sentences in the first damn place. It was armed robbery, they stole $200 tops, nobody was harmed, and they had no priors. They should have served the minimum sentence which was 5 years.

They have been people who have committed murder who served less time than they did or would have.

 

[Warhammer]

They shouldn't have had life sentences in the first damn place. It was armed robbery, they stole $200 tops, nobody was harmed, and they had no priors. They should have served the minimum sentence which was 5 years.

They have been people who have committed murder who served less time than they did or would have.

I can think of one glaring reason why they may have gotten an outrageous life sentence in prison for something like that. One fairly visible reason, but I'd rather not say.

 

[Figs]

They shouldn't have had life sentences in the first damn place. It was armed robbery, they stole $200 tops, nobody was harmed, and they had no priors. They should have served the minimum sentence which was 5 years.

They have been people who have committed murder who served less time than they did or would have.

I got into an argument with my friend a few days ago about that. He believed life was justified. I couldn't believe or agree with that, it's too extreme.

 

[terry78]

You have to wonder what makes life imprisonment for a non-lethal robbery a logical choice. Disappropriate retribution.

 

[Wylie Times]

I can think of one glaring reason why they may have gotten an outrageous life sentence in prison for something like that. One fairly visible reason, but I'd rather not say.

I'll say it for you, it was because they were black.

Black offenders get harsher sentences than white ones do for the exact same crime, damn near every study on the subject shows this.

In another thread I mentioned the fact that majority of those freed from prison due to DNA evidence clearing them were black.

There is a HUGE problem with the conviction and sentencing of African Americans in this country.

 

[Chris Wallace]

I stated in another thread that all these overturned convictions is a major reason why I can't support the death penalty.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

They should have never been in for life anyway. Welcome to the American judicial system!!

 

[Godzilla2000]

It just boggles my mind that these criminals can get a Get Out Of Jail free pass just because one needed a kidney. Has common sense left lawmakers in that state? What prevents them from not going back to jail after the operation is done? These sisters willfully committed a crime and they're rewarded with an early release because one has defective kidneys while innocent people rot in jail for decades until new evidence can exonerate them if they're lucky.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

It just boggles my mind that these criminals can get a Get Out Of Jail free pass just because one needed a kidney. Has common sense left lawmakers in that state? What prevents them from not going back to jail after the operation is done? These sisters willfully committed a crime and they're rewarded with an early release because one has defective kidneys while innocent people rot in jail for decades until new evidence can exonerate them if they're lucky.

I don't disagree with you but their sentence was extreme anyway.

 

[Godzilla2000]

I don't disagree with you but their sentence was extreme anyway.

I suppose it was but since I am not criminally inclined I can't speak on an informed basis about the criminal justice system. The only criminal thing I've participated in is the total ownage of monsters on MH3 online.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Unless you're a killer or rapist I don't see why you shouldn't get a second chance.

 

[Godzilla2000]

Unless you're a killer or rapist I don't see why you shouldn't get a second chance.

If somebody ever stole my Wii I'd want the person to stay in jail for life, that's how seriously I treat my Monster Hunter saved file.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Unless you're a killer or rapist I don't see why you shouldn't get a second chance.

Killers and rapists get second chances all the time.

 

[Wylie Times]

Killers and rapists get second chances all the time.

And that was my point...Those women had no priors and nobody was harmed and they got LIFE in prison.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

It just boggles my mind that these criminals can get a Get Out Of Jail free pass just because one needed a kidney. Has common sense left lawmakers in that state? What prevents them from not going back to jail after the operation is done? These sisters willfully committed a crime and they're rewarded with an early release because one has defective kidneys while innocent people rot in jail for decades until new evidence can exonerate them if they're lucky.

What is the point of the justice system?

To give people the time in prison that they deserve. Right?

Did these women deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison when they didn't harm anyone and had no prior offenses?

These women not staying in prison for the rest of their lives is the justice system actually working.

 

[Anubis]

How the f**k do you get a life sentence for a robbery?

 

[RockSP]

It just boggles my mind that these criminals can get a Get Out Of Jail free pass just because one needed a kidney. Has common sense left lawmakers in that state? What prevents them from not going back to jail after the operation is done? These sisters willfully committed a crime and they're rewarded with an early release because one has defective kidneys while innocent people rot in jail for decades until new evidence can exonerate them if they're lucky.

Lol @ "get out of jail free" after having served 16 years of a bull@#$% sentence.

 

[WolfCypher]

What is the point of the justice system?

To give people the time in prison that they deserve. Right?

Did these women deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison when they didn't harm anyone and had no prior offenses?

These women not staying in prison for the rest of their lives is the justice system actually working.

Yeah, in this the system worked, but through a chance technicality.

The system failed in that they were given a life sentence in the first place.

 

[Anubis]

That shouldn't even have been on the f**kin' table.

 

[Wylie Times]

That shouldn't even have been on the f**kin' table.

I just checked and the minimum you can get for armed robbery in Mississippi is 3 years and the max is obviously life.

It should also be noted that the only reason they were given this chance to get out early is because the dialysis treatments (for the sister with the failing Kidney) would have cost the state $200,000 a year.

Them being freed wasn't an attempt to right a previous wrong and it damn sure wasn't a case of negligence. It was nothing more than a cost cutting measure.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

And that's the sad part, Wylie.