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12-28-07, 11:55 AM
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Teen Gets 42 Years in Sniper Shootings
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22412352/
BROWNSTOWN, Ind. - A teenager who pleaded guilty to killing one man and wounding another in a series of 2006 Indiana highway sniper shootings was sentenced Thursday to 42 years in prison. Defense attorneys tried to portray 18-year-old Zachariah Blanton as troubled and the victim of teasing, but the judge said his emotional problems were no excuse for killing someone he had never met. Prosecutors said Blanton fired his hunting rifle into Interstate 65 traffic on July 23, 2006, from an overpass about 60 miles south of Indianapolis, killing 40-year-old Jerry L. Ross of New Albany. An Iowa man traveling in another pickup truck also was injured. Defense attorneys had said Blanton fired at a white pickup truck carrying Ross in anger after an emotional clash with other family members during a deer hunt. But Ross had nothing to do with what happened during the hunt, said Jackson Circuit Judge William Vance. "Jerry Ross had never done anything to you, and you killed him," he said. Blanton had faced trial on charges of murder, attempted murder and criminal recklessness. But he pleaded guilty earlier this month to lesser charges of voluntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon and criminal recklessness. Ross' family members said they were disappointed with the plea deal and had hoped Blanton would face the murder charge and receive a longer sentence. "It'll never be enough," said Ross' sister in law, Lisa Ross. She added: "We'll never see Jerry again. We'll never talk to Jerry again. How do you ever close that?" (So basically, some kid was getting teased and decided to kill a total stranger? I think the kid should have gotten a longer sentence than he did. He ended someone else's life, his life should be over too through at least life in prison. The future of America looks like shit.) 
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12-28-07, 12:03 PM
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Fuck prison time. Let the family's of those he hurt snipe his ass. Tie him up to a tree for a few days and let him know that at anytime, he will be sniped. Could be now, could be days from now. That would be justice!
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12-28-07, 12:12 PM
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I totally agree. Everyone is worried about cruel and unusual punishment but the punishment implemented now isn't stopping the cruel and unusual crimes.
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12-28-07, 12:16 PM
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#5
12-28-07, 05:40 PM
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Bring back the good ol Firing Squad.
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12-28-07, 05:50 PM
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And then maybe we can retrogress into the caveman days and rape all the women we want! Or lets all have slaves! Id rather he rot and grow up in prison and think about how his mother misplaced her morning after pill.
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12-28-07, 09:15 PM
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#8
12-28-07, 09:58 PM
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Good idea.... we should kill everyone on Welfare too.
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12-28-07, 11:39 PM
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12-29-07, 09:04 AM
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By making punishments a little more severe and maybe even cruel, you can save a lot of innocent lives by making a potential killer think twice before he kills. I don't think its worth all the innocent victims of murders every year just because we are overly concerned with being civilized towards killers.
Some might see it as a step backwards, but if it means that less people have to deal with the pain of a family memeber being murdered, then I think its worth it.
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