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I think the main purpose of jail time should be "keep the crime from happening again".
The woman obviously has a very difficult time dealing with the responsibility of having children. If she's capable of leaving them in a car for three hours (whether it's hot or not), she has serious issues. Now you examine the other facts of her story - that she drove around for an hour coming up with a BS story that puts the blame on someone else instead of simply accepting responsibility. You know, we probably wouldn't have even heard about this story if she hadn't lied to the police. If she had told the truth, she probably would have been slapped on the wrist and that would be that. And yet she did lie, and now she's shown that she's unfit to be a member of our society.
I'm against the death penalty too, but I have <b>no problem</b> with long jail sentences. Put simply, when you fuck up <b>that big</b>, you forfeit your right to live a normal life. It sucks, but that's the way of it. We don't need grossly negligent people running around this planet. It's always someone else that ends up paying the price for their errors.
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