Does Kip Kinkel deserve a new trial — a new chance?:
This is an editorial about the prospect of a Kip Kinkel release. Most of it is just a recap of the situation so far with Kinkel’s lawyer appealing the conviction. However, the author has a great idea about how to limit such foolhardy exploits…
The sad thing about people like Kinkel and others like him is that they are wide awake when they commit these crimes but then have the financial wherewithal to force taxpayers into spending tens of thousands of dollars in responding to efforts by them and their benefactors to get them out of prison on “home” visits or permanently released. If they succeed in doing so with Kinkel, and he commits more heinous crimes, not anything like unlikely, the whole bunch of them, attorneys groveling after the big bucks and those willing to spend the big bucks to free this killer, should be locked up together with no recourse for appeal. Maybe that condition would serve to slow, even stop, the madness of the way those with wealth abuse justice in these United States.
We can always hope.
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