re: BR Advocate Praising a Convicted Murderer for Graduating College

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Love to see tax dollars paying for convicted felons' educations while in prison.

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Yes, it is a good cause. Rehabilitation is a must for a healthy society.

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You would rather the guy rot in jail over trying to help others?

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He should have been executed

We allow too many people to live in spite of committing horrendous crimes

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Democrats: That's the kind of guy we want out on the street and voting

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Most of the felon voting rights restoration I've seen is for non-violent felons.

recidivism isn't just a word with no examples.

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According to an April 2011 report by the Pew Center on the States, the average national recidivism rate for released prisoners is 43%.[3]

According to the National Institute of Justice, almost 44 percent of the recently released return before the end of their first year out. About 68 percent of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years of their release from prison, and 77 percent were arrested within five years, and by year nine that number reaches 83 percent.[4]

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LINK

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That's not true. Premeditated is one of the many factors that can upgrade it to 1st degree.

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Here's the statute. I'm no lawyer, but I see nothing in there about premeditation.

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First degree murder

A. First degree murder is the killing of a human being:

(1) When the offender has specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm and is engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of aggravated kidnapping, second degree kidnapping, aggravated escape, aggravated arson, aggravated or first degree rape, forcible or second degree rape, aggravated burglary, armed robbery, assault by drive-by shooting, first degree robbery, second degree robbery, simple robbery, terrorism, cruelty to juveniles, or second degree cruelty to juveniles.

(2) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon a fireman, peace officer, or civilian employee of the Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory or any other forensic laboratory engaged in the performance of his lawful duties, or when the specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm is directly related to the victim's status as a fireman, peace officer, or civilian employee.

(3) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon more than one person.

(4) When the offender has specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm and has offered, has been offered, has given, or has received anything of value for the killing.

(5) When the offender has the specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon a victim who is under the age of twelve or sixty-five years of age or older.

(6) When the offender has the specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm while engaged in the distribution, exchange, sale, or purchase, or any attempt thereof, of a controlled dangerous substance listed in Schedules I, II, III, IV, or V of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law.

(7) When the offender has specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm and is engaged in the activities prohibited by R.S. 14:107.1(C)(1).

(8) When the offender has specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm and there has been issued by a judge or magistrate any lawful order prohibiting contact between the offender and the victim in response to threats of physical violence or harm which was served on the offender and is in effect at the time of the homicide.

(9) When the offender has specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon a victim who was a witness to a crime or was a member of the immediate family of a witness to a crime committed on a prior occasion and:

(a) The killing was committed for the purpose of preventing or influencing the victim's testimony in any criminal action or proceeding whether or not such action or proceeding had been commenced; or

(b) The killing was committed for the purpose of exacting retribution for the victim's prior testimony.

(10) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon a taxicab driver who is in the course and scope of his employment. For purposes of this Paragraph, "taxicab" means a motor vehicle for hire, carrying six passengers or less, including the driver thereof, that is subject to call from a garage, office, taxi stand, or otherwise.

(11) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm and the offender has previously acted with a specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm that resulted in the killing of one or more persons.

(12) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon a correctional facility employee who is in the course and scope of his employment.

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What a pos,

And he’ll never apologize for it

frick him

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frick that. Dude is trying to get more pieces of shite like himself out into society.

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That's exactly what he's doing, and The Advocate is giving him free marketing and advertising to do it. Free publicity for leftists who don't give a shite about the victims' rights to donate money, from which I'm sure he'll keep a significant portion for himself as "salary".

Writers at the Advocate who support this should go get fricked by a porcupine.

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You people neex to get your facts straight before You start posting all kinds of BS on the Internet. Call manda is in prison right now in Cottonport Louisiana. hes been there 20 years and will probly be there another 20 years. He never set any body on fire yes he did kill her and what he did was wrong and and on forgivable and disgusting but what you people are posting on the Internet is No less disgusting. Who are you to judge?

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So he killed her but didn’t set her on fire? Clearly that changes everything. Posting mean things about a convicted murderer is absolutely less disgusting than taking another person’s life and probably ruining many others in the process.

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Smart of him to do this though, dumbass liberals will eat this shite up and provide him plenty of funding.

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The latest round of criminal justice bills had strong bipartisan support. Recent important legislation on the matter, The First Step Act, (which was passed by Congress in 2018 and not related to Hundley) was signed by President Trump, whom most liberals would not consider "a dumbass liberal."

The goal of prison isn't always to lock 'em up and throw away the key. Sometimes people can be rehabilitated.

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The latest round of criminal justice bills had strong bipartisan support. Recent important legislation on the matter, The First Step Act, (which was passed by Congress in 2018 and not related to Hundley) was signed by President Trump, whom most liberals would not consider "a dumbass liberal."

The goal of prison isn't always to lock 'em up and throw away the key. Sometimes people can be rehabilitated.

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Im not in support of anyone or any bill that releases a guy that brutally murdered a 14 year old girl, under any circumstance.