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Earlier today we mentioned the story about Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, who is fighting mad that a loophole in New York law is keeping him from charging Nixzmary’s killers with first degree murder. While we don’t normally agree with reactionary changes to the law after a tragedy, we do agree that it’s miscarriage of justice that this animal can’t be charged with first degree murder.
Under current law the most Hynes can charge the couple (we can’t bring ourselves to call them parents) responsible for Nixzmary’s death is second degree murder which brings with it a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.
"There should be life without parole for someone who kills a child,"
Hynes said, adding that the law didn’t allow him to charge stepfather
Cesar Rodriguez, 27, with first-degree murder.
There is however a simple solution that we would like to, once again, propose. Just get the 25 to life sentence, get him into prison and make sure you spread the word about who this guy is, what he’s in for and then let him out into the general population. Daily. I don’t know, during the guard’s breaks or something. We don’t think you’ll have to worry about that 25th year parole hearing.
New Murder Laws! [Daily News]
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1. chimpy
Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.OK, while I have NO sympathy at all for the parents, the job of the DA is JUSTICE, not VENGENCE.
I totally disagree with you. Justice is dispassionate, and emotions in this case are running way too high. I do think the punishment in this case is too light, but think about what would happen if your “solution” for this instance was a regularly occuring event (which it in all likelihood it is). It’s far better to go light on punishment than it is to go heavy.
And besides, do you really need to participate in the group mourning–and collective victimhood–that the Nixmary tragedy is producing?
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 at 1:04 am | Permalink
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