Tennessee passes the death penalty for child rapists
(twitter.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (96)
sorted by:
People are supposed to be reasonable and not jail an 18-yr-old for consentual sex with his 17-yr-old girlfriend. But we don't have reasonableness in courts of law, or even the concept of it, any longer. Lawyers can just do whatever.
Because, whatever a judge's personal feelings toward a defendant may be, he or she is only there to uphold the law as it is written, which cannot possibly account for all the nuances present in any given case.