One cop says "ABSOLUTELY NOT! Life imprisonment should mean..... life imprisonment, not what these scumbag bleeding heart liberals have reduced it to." Another cop says "He should die in prison. The liberal mindset never ceases to amaze me."
I strongly agree with them in this case – life in prison for killing a police officer should mean you don’t get out unless you’re a stiff in a pine box. What I don’t understand is how this cop killer was not sentenced to death in the first place?
Henry Michael Gargano was one of three heavily armed masked gunmen who robbed a bank. As they were leaving the bank they killed two cops who had responded to the bank robbery call and seriously wounded two others. All three were tried and convicted in Federal Court. They were found guilty of 2 counts of First Degree Murder and Bank Robbery and were each sentenced to 199 years in prison.
Now you can understand why cops hate liberals.
EDITORIAL: SHOULD LIFE SENTENCES BE ABOLISHED?
A 77-year-old man who killed two cops will soon be released on parole, 43 years after his crime
By Walt Zlotow
Chicago Sun-Times
July 26, 2010
CHICAGO — Forget the death penalty, which is nearly a dead letter already.
The impending parole of 77-year-old Henry Michael Gargano after 43 years in federal prison for murdering Northlake policemen John Nagel and Anthony Sperri should spur a serious examination of the need to abolish life sentences. The U.S. Parole Commission has set Gargano's release for Sept. 3, citing his model behavior over the past 10 years, advanced age, poor health and little likelihood of engaging in criminal behavior. Opponents of Gargano's release include Officer Nagle's son, the deputy Northlake police chief and 6,000 supporters who signed petitions.
Gargano's incarceration has achieved the primary purpose of severe sentencing: removal of a violent monster from further opportunity to prey on society.
But needless continued imprisonment of hollow shells of one-time offenders should not be held hostage to relatives, colleagues or friends of victims decades later. If you asked what would really quench their thirst for justice, most might want to get the offender alone in a room and rip him apart. While that is understandable, it is not within the scope of the criminal justice system to authorize.
The lifelong warehousing of physically and mentally broken down old men shouldn't be as well.
3 comments:
Walt Zlotow is aliberal progressive ass.
Fools like Zlotow who believe that Gargano is no longer a threat to society because he's old and infirm don't really get it. The threat Gargano's release poses to society consitsts of the likelyhood that a relative of the victim or an outraged citizen, rightly assuming that justice has been denied, might, if given the opportunity, take matters in their own hands and bust a cap in the back of his head.
If enough people believe that justice will not be done in cases such as this.....they will seek it for themselves. Society cannot withstand that kind of behavior.
I agree that the life sentence mandate should be upheld. However it shouldn't take that long. No longer than 90 days anyhow. And the bastards would die in prison, 90 days after the court sentence! Let's free up some of that bunk space at the local lock up!
We all know that the people who talk about going by the letter of the law for keeping criminals in prison until death do them part are only talking about the average criminal, never the rich or famous or politically connected, which is the category of the police. For the very few police officers who have ever been tried for murder, and even fewer who got life sentences, these same law and order advocates suddenly become as silent as church mice when the privileged characters come up for parole. Let's stop the hypocrisy.
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