US inmate to be released after 43 years in solitary confinement
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[QUOTE=cqbcat;47914970]Unless this guy is a child raping cannibal, I would say 43 years of solitary confinement if more than enough punishment.
However, I think the state should try to help him out cause in the outside world, there's probably no opportunities for him other than becoming a street bum.[/QUOTE]
Even if he was a child raping cannibal, this is a horrifying punishment. Just kill them if you're going to be that unnecessarily cruel. I don't believe any human being should be subject to this kind of torture (or torture of any kind for that matter.)
I'd rather want to know how can he be tried more than once. Does ne bis in idem not apply in the US?
I hope this guy becomes a big campaigner for prisoner's rights. In my opinion, the two most oppressed groups in America are children and prisoners.
[QUOTE=download;47912904]Don't you have Double Jeopardy in the US?[/QUOTE]
He should have been protected by the Double Jeopardy clause in the fifth amendment of the US Constitution.
[QUOTE]...nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;47914220]I remember reading a thing a few years ago by a guy who was in solitary for several decades and pleading for his release. I wonder if it was this same guy? There was actually a thread about it here on Facepunch.[/QUOTE]
This? [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1086571[/url]
That's a different guy, though.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;47915555]"Yeah sucks that children can't vote or consent even though they are capable of fucking fucked up system man RREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"[/QUOTE]
I was referring by the fact that many children are psychologically abused by parents and schools (and in many cases physically abused by private institutions like child behavior boot camps). But OK.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;47914264]If he wasn't exactly a model citizen in prison, that may have earned him that.[/QUOTE]
absolutely nothing should earn you 40 years in solitary
What's the point of torturing him? Is it some sort of sick fantasy the prison guards have?
I've seen people with way bigger bodycounts get smaller sentences, what gives.
[QUOTE=Wii60;47912906]imagine being stuck in prison since the 1970s.
missing the entire rise of electronics.
jesus.[/QUOTE]
Not just prison
solitary confinement is so much worse than prison
You have literally nobody to talk to, nobody will keep you updated.
Not only would you miss the rise of electronics but you would have no fucking idea at all when you came out
Louisiana seems to have a history with these kind of things.
[editline]9th June 2015[/editline]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola_Three]This explains it.[/url]
[QUOTE=elevate;47917101]Louisiana seems to have a history with these kind of things.
[editline]9th June 2015[/editline]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola_Three]This explains it.[/url][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]He was released October 1, 2013, re-indicted on October 3, 2013, and died on October 4, 2013 before he could be re-arrested.[/QUOTE]
Well that sucks. Poor guy probably didn't even get a chance to catch up.
[QUOTE=download;47912904]Don't you have Double Jeopardy in the US?[/QUOTE]
Ya but judges prefer to watch wheel of fortune
[QUOTE=elevate;47917101]Louisiana seems to have a history with these kind of things.
[editline]9th June 2015[/editline]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola_Three]This explains it.[/url][/QUOTE]
The other guy of the A3, Rob King, has actually been going in and out of prison. But at one point, police tortured a guy into saying King's guilty of armed robbery (even though he never did)
so yeah, Louisiana does not like these guys a whole lot.
I wonder if he even knows that the Soviet Union is gone...
[QUOTE=DeEz;47916186]What's the point of torturing him? Is it some sort of sick fantasy the prison guards have?[/QUOTE]
"There are strong opponents of the inmates release. Louisiana’s Attorney General, James Caldwell, has stated that he opposes releasing the two men “with every fiber of my being,”[25] and that they have never been held in solitary confinement but are in "protective cell units known as CCR [Closed Cell Restricted]".[14] The Warden of Angola and Hunt prisons, Burl Cain, has repeatedly suggested that Woodfox and Wallace must be held in solitary because they subscribe to “Black Pantherism.”"
[url]http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Angola_Three#/Opposition[/url]
Basically sadism/prison bureaucracy
burn louisiana and its sister florida
[QUOTE=Wii60;47912906]imagine being stuck in prison since the 1970s.
missing the entire rise of electronics.
jesus.[/QUOTE]
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Gj America as always such a great country to live in.
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