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I am the lone person so far to choose the minimum sentence available up there. Not because i think he deserved the minimum sentence, it's because of my views on the death penalty and on prison in america. I think our prison system is awful. I think the death penalty is worse. I used to be quite pro-death penalty, until i read the book "Violence" by James Gilligan. Anyone who is truly interested in this topic should definitely read this book. I have recommended it to several people, and no one came out of it pro death penalty. It is an amazingly written collection of studies on violent offenders, and the effect of the death penalty and the prison system. Anyone who actually reads this, please PM me and let me know what you think. I highly recommend this book!!! Under the current system, assuming i can't change anything, i would probably give this guy life without parole, only because that book made me so adamantly against the death penalty.
DrUptight.
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