Yet another in an endless string of examples of the liberal media looking out for wanton criminals rather than the victims of their crimes. Worse yet, it is utter hypocrisy to insist that murderers get far better treatment than unborn babies whom that same liberal media approve in being literally torn apart while conscious. From The Detroit Free Press, while the debt ceiling is about to fall in on a federal government that is like a drunk in an alcohol factory and can't stop itself from spending, the freep has other priorities to editorialize:
Courts should give juvenile lifers chance at paroleRoughly 350 juveniles have been sentenced to life without parole in Michigan -- among the most in a nation that stands alone in imposing such sentences on children.
Children? They were tried as adults for a good reason - they're crimes were so heinous that they couldn't have been committed by unknowing kids. People mature at different rates and simply going with age makes no sense whatsoever.
Michigan's notorious juvenile lifer law denies even the possibility of parole for certain crimes, imposing the maximum adult penalty on children as young as 14. Bordering on barbarism, this practice is almost certainly unconstitutional, given recent court decisions.
But abortion that takes away a baby's 14th amendment protection against being deprived of life without due process is not. Doesn't that just figure?
In a lawsuit filed last year, the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Michigan argued that denying juvenile lifers a fair hearing and chance for release violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
But again abortion is AOK.The hypocrisy here is endless as having murderers incarcerated in air conditioned prisons with cable tv is considered inhumane and unfair, but dismembering babies under the absurd auspices of 'choice' is not:
...ACLU attorney Deborah Labelle told the Free Press editorial page on Monday. "...sentencing children to die in prison without giving them an opportunity for parole is inhumane, unfair and unconstitutional."
...The evolution of the law concerning adult sentences for juveniles is supported by emerging scientific scholarship as well as common sense. Juveniles don't possess the same rights and responsibilities as adults because of their maturity levels. Imposing the same penalities on someone too young to buy a pack of cigarettes is therefore irrational.
How about imposing the penalty of death on babies for the crime of simply existing? Irrational? And of course it is the job of these same hypocritical liberals to sanctimoniously lecture us on morality:
Despite overwhelming, legal, moral and practical arguments, Michigan legislators have failed to abolish this draconian law enacted in the 1980s. Repealing it would not, in itself, release a single prisoner; it would only give juvenile lifers a chance to earn a parole after serving lengthy sentences.
I don't think Draco would have put up with coddled murderers sitting in a club behind bars, but maybe that's just me. If the freep is so worried about cruel and unusual punishment, they should call for lifting Michigan's moratorium on capital punishment. After all, murderers can't possibly be held to a better standard than unborn children, right?