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Created: 07/21 05:06 pm
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Punishment for vengeance
Substitute the persons involved where appropriate so that either scenario matches more closely with your real life situation (I want both to resonate strongly).
Scenario 1: Your youngest sibling is murdered and the man convicted of it, whom is actually guilty, is given a sentence your family finds to be a gross injustice, but under the law and what available evidence there was, it was the absolute best the State could do against that man. Shortly after his release, your father kills him. What is a just punishment for your father?
Scenario 2: An innocent man is killed by your father during the period of persons of interest and suspect interviews. Same question as above.
Scenario 3: An innocent man is convicted, sentenced for the same amount of time as the guilty man in Scenario 1, released and, again, killed by your father. How different should your father's punishment be from Scenario 2 and, if different from Scenario 2, Scenario 1?
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At 04:46 pm
Schmuckula
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1. As difficult as it would be, I generally believe in respecting law, but know angry and grief can cloud judgment. I'd probably give the father something comparable to a manslaughter sentence, albeit I can't say what that is on average, or something along the lines of 8-15 years with the possibility of parole, with a preference for the latter.
2. The father has not the sufficient basis to conclude and justify his actions, but the emotion felt, being closer to when the murder of his child took place, should be considered. But since his victim wasn't even indicted, the father's punishment should be worse, and I would lean toward the maximum manslaughter or minimum murder charges, but would keep parole as a possibility.
3. A definite oversight in my 3rd Scenario is that I did not indicate any knowledge on the father's part that the man was innocent, and it would be a reasonable inference to assume that even if the father knew of the exoneration in the court's view, he does not accept them. Therefor, though it would have been better if I had said he was aware of said exoneration, I can't consider that in my answer. Thus my answer for Scenario3 is the same as that of 1.
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