ISYairio
June 19th, 2009, 9:15 pm
On Thursday night's The O'Reilly Factor, Megan Kelly, a lawyer whom I often agree with, expressed outrage at the lenient sentence given to NFL player Dante Stallworth. Stallworth had gotten drunk and killed a pedestrian. He was sentenced to only 30 days in prison, two years of home confinement, eight years of probation, and a lifetime prohibition on driving. Kelly was outraged that he wasn't given more prison time. But she herself pointed out that the family of the man killed favored this sentence because Stallworth had made an undisclosed cash settlement with them. She found the sentence unjust. I think it was profoundly just. Stallworth didn't hurt "society." He killed a particular man and he compensated the man's survivors enough that they favored the leniency. Justice is a matter of making it up to the people you hurt. No amount of money can bring this man back to life. But no amount of prison time can either. How would it be more just to make him go to prison when the survivors of the man he killed don't want that? Far too many people, including Kelly, think justice in the case of such a death necessarily involves prison.
I'm not gonna link because he says something perhaps not particularly acceptable concerning Hannity.
But what I'm interested about is what I quoted. Is the sentence just or unjust in your opinion? Opinion on the Henderson position? Etc?
Based on this alone, to large extent I'm sympathetic to Henderson position, though admittedly don't like to a considerable degree that Stallworth only spends 30 days in prison.
I'm not gonna link because he says something perhaps not particularly acceptable concerning Hannity.
But what I'm interested about is what I quoted. Is the sentence just or unjust in your opinion? Opinion on the Henderson position? Etc?
Based on this alone, to large extent I'm sympathetic to Henderson position, though admittedly don't like to a considerable degree that Stallworth only spends 30 days in prison.