The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Criminals don't care what the law is.
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.