#4 and 5 is particularly important. There was a story I read about a few months ago. A group of three or four Irish (I think) car thieves were killed in a car accident in Dublin, after which car theft in the city virtually ended. Collectively, these guys had been arrested like a hundred times but were still at liberty due to what I can o…
#4 and 5 is particularly important. There was a story I read about a few months ago. A group of three or four Irish (I think) car thieves were killed in a car accident in Dublin, after which car theft in the city virtually ended. Collectively, these guys had been arrested like a hundred times but were still at liberty due to what I can only call idiocy.
I think for situations like this, we need some kind of drastic rule. Call it the twenty-strikes rule. The twentieth time you're arrested on suspicion of a felony, you're automatically eligible for the death penalty when you're tried, and your rights of appeal from that death sentence are limited. You still get your one automatic appeal maybe, but that's it.
If I had it entirely my way, probably I'd just make it the rule that on your twentieth felony arrest, you're just immediately executed, but I don't think that would be constitutional.
Second chances are one thing. Twenty-first chances, no one gets.
#4 and 5 is particularly important. There was a story I read about a few months ago. A group of three or four Irish (I think) car thieves were killed in a car accident in Dublin, after which car theft in the city virtually ended. Collectively, these guys had been arrested like a hundred times but were still at liberty due to what I can only call idiocy.
I think for situations like this, we need some kind of drastic rule. Call it the twenty-strikes rule. The twentieth time you're arrested on suspicion of a felony, you're automatically eligible for the death penalty when you're tried, and your rights of appeal from that death sentence are limited. You still get your one automatic appeal maybe, but that's it.
If I had it entirely my way, probably I'd just make it the rule that on your twentieth felony arrest, you're just immediately executed, but I don't think that would be constitutional.
Second chances are one thing. Twenty-first chances, no one gets.