people who didn't deserve a second chance

volume 1 - this bitch. and technically, it's a third chance, since not giving her the death penalty the first time around was the second chance.

lots of people who oppose the death penalty like rehabilitation. i don't oppose the death penalty. it's called the death penalty, not the "random death game." i wouldn't use it liberally, but i'm not against it. ok, the legal system isn't perfect, there will be incorrect convictions, blah blah blah. that's why the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt. as in, it's not reasonable for the jury of your peers to doubt at all that you committed the crime. and if they fuck it up, that's what you get for using a jury of your peers (i think juries are pretty stupid too). you can waive your right to a jury.

and for rehab lovers, just like the death penalty doesn't always work, neither does rehab. is it any better when a "rehabilitated" person goes out and kills someone else than when a possibly innocent person is executed? and we all know that there arent any guarantees of either happening. just because you're sentenced to death doesn't mean that's how you die.

so why isn't there more rehab? do people not want to get into that field? is there not enough money? well, maybe there are not enough people who think it works and is worthwhile and are in favor of providing more funding. i dont know.

i'm going to end the death penalty rant now, but i just got confused when the jury convicted her and yet didn't give her death. besides the fact that it's georgia so you would expect half the jury members brought their own guns to court, she was already serving a life sentence for the murder of her husband that occurred 6 years before this one. i don't get when they tack on more time to a life sentence. ooooooh, a double life sentence! i'm shaking in my shackles! why don't they just give her an antifreeze mail order catalog and allow her to host tea parties in her cell?