re: Is this too harsh? Georgia couple receive long sentences for verbal hate crime

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Why not force these people to preform community service,and pay fines rather than add them to our enormous prison pop?

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It appears that's similar to what most of the group got.

So apparently this couple went further, with the the actual deadly threats--further exacerbated by the deadly weapons part.

13 years does seem harsh, but of all the sentencing ridiculousness we see, including in Georgia, this seems like a strange one to rile people up.