SENTENCING STUPIDITY

We live in a day and age when all logic has been jettisoned. Irrationality has gained the ascendency especially with the judicial system. The judges have ensured that criminals are treated better than law abiding citizens. The judges have established principles of arbitrariness. The ones who are supposed to uphold the law, do not hold to any ethical principles. Their sentencing decisions are capricious.

The Supreme Court has recently declared war on its citizens by allowing any one under the age of 18 to commit murder and they cannot be given the death penalty. If someone is 17 years and 364 days old, they cannot be given the death penalty. If they commit the murder on the 365th day, they can get the death penalty. What does one day matter? What does time have to do with the act of murdering someone?

A recent example occurred on February 29, 2008. 17 year old Anthony Tyrone Terrell, Jr. has been accused of murdering his mother and her two daughters, aged 11 and 4, in the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Terrell’s mother, Joy Deleston, was a Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Deputy. No motive for the murders has been established. The murder weapon has been found. Terrell is being held without bail and will have a preliminary hearing next week.

On the video report, a Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Deputy colleague Stacy Bourbonnais said that the murders were violent and senseless. She said that she was shocked and angered by these murders. Who was she angry with and why?

The prosecutor’s hands have already been tied. They know that they cannot seek the death penalty in this case because of Terrell’s age. Essentially, this means that those under the age of 18 can murder anyone they choose and the state i.e. taxpayers have to take care of him for the rest of his life. Worse, there are those who are advocating that these teen murderers should be eventually paroled. This is outrageous and unbelievable.

Thank you Supreme Court for giving those under the age of 18 the right to murder anyone without the reprisal of the death penalty. It is open season on the law abiding. Obviously, Terrell’s age had nothing to do with his ability to murder 3 people. Age is arbitrary. This is not an age issue, it is an ethical issue.

The Bible is clear with regard to the penalty that Terrell should suffer, if he is found guilty: death. All murderers are given the death penalty under God’s law. Striking a parent brings the same penalty. Terrell, under God’s law, would be given the death penalty. His age is irrelevant. Under man’s law, what is irrelevant becomes relevant and it is opposite of God’s punishment. These judges will be held accountable by God. Their day of reckoning is coming. They will have to give an account to the Judge of judges and they will be given the spiritual death penalty.