The Glade 4.0

http://m.abc22now.com/news/School_Shoot ... irect=true

I'm on mobile so I won't post the whole article.

He's shown his unrepentant disdain for the justice system and the victims' famillies. We decided not to give him the death penalty when we had the chance. Thoughts?

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So he's in a facility where you can just climb the fence and leave?

I'd just put a marksman in a tower and let him try again. Maybe lower the fence a little bit to encourage it.

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He was 17 at the time of the shooting. Juveniles can't be sentenced to death anymore in the US, there was a Supreme Court decision about exactly that.

Put him back in jail.

Well, that was easy.

But he's an adult now that he's escaping, right?

Surely we can execute him for that, since stacking more jail time onto a life sentence is meaningless...

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Send him to West Africa, that's what you do. Let him live in Liberia and enjoy his freedom.

Higher security incarceration. He's old enough to live with the big boys now.

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Hopefully Mike. That doesn't require a trial though I think.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

He won't be after this - at least not for a very long time. Inmates are placed in a security classification based on their propensity to escape. Obviously someone made a mistake in that regard in this case.

You can find life-sentence murderers working on honor-farm prisons with essentially NO security in Ohio other than counts. They don't run because they have a good deal at the honor farm and they don't want to mess that up. Generally they started at higher-security institutions and if they didn't cause trouble they got downgraded over time and eventually ended up at the honor farm - by which time they're older and have more perspective on their prospects at the honor farm vs. their prospects as a wanted fugitive, and at the maximum-security joint they'd be in afterwards.

There's nothing wrong with shooting an inmate in the process of trying to escape though, so maybe your idea has merit.

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The only thing I don't understand is why the family of the victims of his first crime would need to be present at the trial for his escape. Desirable as character witnesses, maybe, but certainly not necessary as material witnesses since the escape is a separate affair from the shooting. Seems kind of like a false dilemma to me.

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Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

I was wondering about that too. I'm not sure what the deal is on that.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"