Canadian female sex killer to leave prison

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

So that individuals such as her will never get the chance to be rehabilitated.

Why wouldn't you want her to be rehabilitated? I can understand arguing that she should be executed on the grounds you think she can't be rehabilitated, but I don't see why you would object to her being turned into a functioning member of society if at all possible.

[Beirut]

Punishment. Revenge. Read what this heinous broad did and you will see that rehabilitation is far, far more than she deserves.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Punishment. Revenge. Read what this heinous broad did and you will see that rehabilitation is far, far more than she deserves.

So it's a bloodlust thing. That doesn't sound much like justice to me.

I'm also baffled by the idea that rehabilitation is for the criminal's sake-it isn't. It is or society's sake, so that we don't have to waste money keeping them in prison or make killers of ourselves by executing them. I mean, surely to turn a stone-sold murderess into a functional member of society, as opposed to giving in to our baser instincts and slaying her, would be a truly noble goal?

[the tokai]

I'm also baffled by the idea that rehabilitation is for the criminal's sake

It isn't?

[A.Saturnus]

It isn't?

If you fix a software problem, is that for your computer`s sake or yours?

Punishment. Revenge. Read what this heinous broad did and you will see that rehabilitation is far, far more than she deserves.

You know how you can cure a mad cow? Find an old penny, blacken it over an open flame, bind it on a cat`s hair and hold it into a river flowing east. In comparison with that behaviour the cow is normal.

[the tokai]

If you fix a software problem, is that for your computer`s sake or yours?

Criminals are humans, not computers.

[Hurin_Rules]

The real problem is not the justice system itself. It is the boneheaded move by the prosecutor to cut her a sweet deal because he freaked out thinking he might not have enough to convict her boyfriend, one of the most heinous criminals in Canadian history. In the annals of prosecutorial error, this has to be at the top of the list. They should never have cut her a deal, but I believe they did it so that she could give them the videotapes the couple had made of their abductions and murders, and thus convict Bernardo. Even if Canada had had the death penalty, Homolko would not have been facing it.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Send her to Iraq, use her to help clear out a minefield
*watchers her run in blindfolded* *BAM!* *Gets hit with intestine*

BTW Justice is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. She tortured and killed 3 young girls with her husband, she should be tortured and killed. It's that simple.

[Beirut]

So it's a bloodlust thing. That doesn't sound much like justice to me.

I'm also baffled by the idea that rehabilitation is for the criminal's sake-it isn't. It is or society's sake, so that we don't have to waste money keeping them in prison or make killers of ourselves by executing them. I mean, surely to turn a stone-sold murderess into a functional member of society, as opposed to giving in to our baser instincts and slaying her, would be a truly noble goal?

Bloodlust? Maybe not. But certainly revenge for the sake of revenge.

To understand our motivations in this matter you would need to understand just how much the crimes perpetrated by her and her husband rocked the whole country. God knows things like this happen, unfortunately, all the time, but for some reason this one was the zenith of all evils to us. It was the straw that broke the camel's back and had thirty million Canadians either screaming with rage or simply crying in frustration.

I'm not sure why this case affected the country so deeply, but it did. I do not doubt for a moment that many millions of Canadians, normally fair people with an inate sense of law and order, of justice and fairplay, would be more than happy if someone ran the bitch over and then backed up and did it again.

I myself, casting aside all exagerations of toughguy talk, cannot guarantee that if I saw her I would not attack her with all my force.

[Steppe Merc]

BTW Justice is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. She tortured and killed 3 young girls with her husband, she should be tortured and killed. It's that simple.

So if I break the law by smoking marijuana, do I get to smoke until I die (which would take a very very long time)? Sweet!

[Ice]

So if I break the law by smoking marijuana, do I get to smoke until I die (which would take a very very long time)? Sweet!

No they should just make u smoke until u can smoke no more :P

[GoreBag]

So if I break the law by smoking marijuana, do I get to smoke until I die (which would take a very very long time)? Sweet!

You know you'd have to smoke your own body weight in pot, right?

[sharrukin]

So that individuals such as her will never get the chance to be rehabilitated.

Why wouldn't you want her to be rehabilitated? I can understand arguing that she should be executed on the grounds you think she can't be rehabilitated, but I don't see why you would object to her being turned into a functioning member of society if at all possible.

Revenge and justice are posed as two seperate things which in my opinion is incorrect. If a man walks up to someone and puts a bullet in his brain and then gives himself up to the police. If you know absolutely that he will never do any such thing again in his life does he get to go home after a shower to wash off the blood?

If not then we are talking punishment/revenge, aren't we?

So it's a bloodlust thing. That doesn't sound much like justice to me.

Beirut said it well.
Yes it's a bloodlust thing AND it's justice. Like most things in life it manages to be at least two things at the same time. They are not mutually exclusive but rather are tied up in being the same thing and revenge can exist without justice, but justice cannot exist without the other.

I'm also baffled by the idea that rehabilitation is for the criminal's sake-it isn't. It is or society's sake, so that we don't have to waste money keeping them in prison or make killers of ourselves by executing them. I mean, surely to turn a stone-sold murderess into a functional member of society, as opposed to giving in to our baser instincts and slaying her, would be a truly noble goal?

I just cannot find the interest in saving someone who is so utterly despicable that she would be part of the rape and murder of her own sister as well as other young girls. People die all the time and many of them are far more worthy of my concern than this evil bitch.

There is nothing noble about helping her when others exist who are far more deserving.

3) And finally, the one that really, truly broke my heart. A teenage black male who lived in Hartford CT. He was semi-retarded, but by all accounts, had a heart of gold and had a true love of his fellow man. He lived in one of the worst projects in the city. He used to put a towel around his neck and claimed to be Batman and would help old people in and out of the building (as he was 6'6" and weighed over 350 lbs). Well, one day, some younger kids, who had no grudge against this guy, came by with a case of soda. They proceeded to pelt him with the soda cans, even after the guy, screaming and crying, begged for his life. He died there on the lobby floor. Now here's when I almost stopped believing in God, and I did stop believing in the inherent goodness of man. During the attack, at least 10 residents walked through the lobby, including several whom had been assisted by the boy. Nobody called the police.

[Proletariat]

I'm not sure why this case affected the country so deeply, but it did. I do not doubt for a moment that many millions of Canadians, normally fair people with an inate sense of law and order, of justice and fairplay, would be more than happy if someone ran the bitch over and then backed up and did it again.

I'm not defending this wicked woman, but this is not a good reason for exacting revenge. I can just picture throngs of Canadians with pitch forks and torches meteing out their own justice when their own government played by it's own rules that they have their own say in.

[Beirut]

I'm not defending this wicked woman, but this is not a good reason for exacting revenge. I can just picture throngs of Canadians with pitch forks and torches meteing out their own justice when their own government played by it's own rules that they have their own say in.

I'm not saying it's right, I'm only saying those feelings exists.

I know very well I would be wrong to hurt her, but, as I said, I cannot guarantee that I wouldn't if I saw her.

[Husar]

Why wouldn't you want her to be rehabilitated? I can understand arguing that she should be executed on the grounds you think she can't be rehabilitated, but I don't see why you would object to her being turned into a functioning member of society if at all possible.

I´d go the middle way and make her a functioning member of a nice prison, maybe she can sort out waste or so, so we don´t need to distinguish between three different kinds of waste at home anymore.
"Just throw everything in there, we have enough criminals to sort it afterwards."

[UglyandHasty]

Death penalty is for people like her and her ex-husband. I read that she was very manipulative in prison, now we release that in the society. But of course she is healed...