What Should Happen to People Who Break the Law?

[Ethereal]

I'd love to hear your opinions. I suspect they lack consistency.

[Cletus]

I think it depends largely on the law and how badly your actions damage another. For most laws, I would not recommend any particular penalty. For more serious crimes, I would simply suggest exile. It has been said that laws are the price you pay for the protection of society. If you don't obey the law, you sacrifice that protection. Banishment.

I do not believe the state should have the power to incarcerate or execute you, regardless of your crime. The exception to that I have always made is elected or appointed officials who violate the public trust, traitors, and members of the military who commit major breaches of discipline... desertion, crimes against civilians, hanging is appropriate.

[donttread]

I'd love to hear your opinions. I suspect they lack consistency.

1)First of all the nation needs to become clear again on who has the authority to make laws and where.
2) Second lets grow up and bag victinless crimes like drugs, prostitution or "18 year old Billy Bob sleeping with his willing 16 year old girl friend" .
3) For real crimes enforced by the appropriate jurisdiction ( the feds have usuruped much of the states powers) I would like to see more consistency in sentencing although states rights supercede that. But states could move to cooperatively work together on sentencing structure. But make no mistake we still need prisons, not as many as we currently have. But we still need to protect society from certain people.
4) I believe we need a juror class in high school to teach citizens the difference between "I think he most likely did it " and "Beyond a reasonable doubt"
5) I believe in the death penalty for certain crimes but only if an even higher burden of proof is met. And most importantly the sentence should be carried out within 1 year.

[Common]

They should be tried in a court of law and if convicted be sentenced. I dont see it as more convoluted than that.

The question wasnt who should prosecute or how, it was simply what should happen to those who break the law.

[Shady Slim]

They should be tried in a court of law and if convicted be sentenced.

. . . and the sentence be followed as determined by a jury or guidelines. None of this crap of 6 teenagers having 120 prior convictions between them.

It is a slap in the face of society to have repeat offenders out defying laws written to protect ALL members of the community. If a white guy were to do the same crimes, believe me, I (or others of the so called 'white privilege') would be rotting in jail.

These six (three dying as a result) punk ass punks were not going to the library at 4:30 AM racing down US 19 in two stolen cars.

Very interested in what others think should happen to the remaining three who survived. I say they should be charged with murder. After all, in Florida, if someone dies in the commission of a felony, then accomplices are charged with murder. Simple, period.

If that was your spouse who nearly died after these three punks hit the car going 140 mph, you would be outraged as well. If this doesn't frost your ass, there is something wrong with you.

"How else a brotha gonna get money for school books if he don't steal it?" BS I say

If you do not know what I am talking about:

http://wfla.com/2017/08/06/3-dead-af...ws-conference/

[Common Sense]

I'd love to hear your opinions. I suspect they lack consistency.

I suspect all our opinions lack consistency.

In most cases I think that those who break the law should go through the criminal justice system. That being said, that system is dysfunctional.

[Crepitus]

What Should Happen to People Who Break the Law?

Lemme guess: you think we should spit in their cakes and piss in their post toasties.

[resister]

Lemme guess: you think we should spit in their cakes and piss in their post toasties.

What a troll ^

[Ethereal]

I suspect all our opinions lack consistency.

Nope.

In most cases I think that those who break the law should go through the criminal justice system. That being said, that system is dysfunctional.

So the millions of illegal immigrants who broke federal law by entering the country without permission should be treated like criminals?

[Ethereal]

Lemme guess: you think we should spit in their cakes and piss in their post toasties.

No, we should give them amnesty and provide them with welfare.