re: Killer of Ole Miss student released after serving 15 months of a 15 year sentence

I’m happy he was released. If he had no priors, someone like this shouldn’t be in prison. Prison is meant to protect society. What protection does the public need from this guy? He certsinly didn’t intentionally back over someone. And if you are worried about future drunk driving,make him get a lifetime device put in his car that proves he’s sober before it starts.

Not calling 9-11? We don’t have Good Samaritan Laws for a reason. You really need to look into the details of his case. The guy wasn’t recklessly driving drunk on the freeway. He was backing out of a parking lot. If he had no alcohol in his system he’d have never went to prison even if the end result was the same

The prison system is overcrowded at it is. Keep people in it that commit intentional violent or thieving crime. Prison for accidents is dumb. It doesn’t serve any purpose. It’s not even a deterrent. And nobody needs to be rehabilitated from an unintentional accident that took 10 seconds. Imagine serving 15 years in prison for an accident that was 10 seconds of your life. Especially if you’d never been in trouble before and were a productive member of society