Punishment 1

Author: leildavid

Date: February 28, 2006

by leildavid
2-28-06
There have been a lot of children dying at the hands of their parents in NY lately it seems, and a lot of people are talking about making harsher punishments for murder when a parent does it.
First of all, like that's going to deter them. Like there's a parent out there going "Gee, I'd like to kill my child, but I don't think I could handle 25 to life."
And it brings up one general problem that I have with the justice system, which is the punishment fitting the crime.
So far I haven't heard one person suggest what was, for me, the first punishment that came to mind: mandatory sterilization.
Like, that should be the first thing, before they get to sentencing.
There should be a room off the side of the courtroom, as soon as the guilty verdict is read, the doctor goes to work.