Has anyone had a chance to see the latest “weak on crime” bill being pushed, House Bill 1192?
In the latest, if you were 27 or less when you chopped up that family and set their house aflame to burn up the evidence and pled down the sentence to “life without parole,” legislators like prime sponsor Rep. Heather Baxter & Rep. Josephine Garcia want to provide offenders a “get out of jail card,” and send them back to their communities.. because they were just undereducated, needed counseling, and were misunderstood when they killed those people?
Oh, and they want to make it retroactive to any inmate:
Section 2. That chapter 24-15A be amended with a NEW SECTION:
An inmate sentenced to life imprisonment for an offense, other than rape in the first degree pursuant to § 22-22-1, which was committed when the inmate was at least eighteen years old but under the age of twenty-seven is eligible for discretionary parole consideration when the inmate has served twenty-five years. The board shall conduct an initial discretionary parole hearing within six months of the inmate achieving eligibility. The board must consider the factors set forth in section 3 of this Act in determining whether to grant parole under this section.
If an inmate considered for discretionary parole under this section is denied parole, the board must establish a discretionary parole date of not less than five years from the date of denial. Subsequent discretionary parole hearings must be held at intervals of not more than two years.
An inmate granted parole under this section is otherwise subject to the provisions of chapters 24-13, 24-15, and 24-15A.
The provisions of this Act apply retroactively to any inmate sentenced before July 1, 2026.
Read Baxter’s “Get out of jail” crime bill here.
If Baxter & Garcia think there are too many people in jail and want to let them out, maybe they should start with those who commit lower level offenses first? Instead of the people who commit acts of kidnapping, murder, etc?
There’s a reason those sentences are life without parole, not life, until you hit about 45, and then we’ll think about it.
Baxter & Garcia want to clear the murderers out of jail? No. Hard No.
Why do these nut jobs keep getting elected it’s a total embarrassment to their district.
There had to be at least 50 valid signers to get these two nutjobs on the ballot.
We don’t need one-size-fits-all bills of this sort. We should protect the ability of the justice and penal systems to make the right decision for each situation and leave it at that.
‘other than rape’? Because the tendency to murder is less than that? I think not. Wow.
Why was it left out that Tim Goodwin also sponsored this terrible bill? I know he’s a favorite on here
I can’t help thinking how LEFT this is… What I know of Garcia is that she’s pretty far right… is the far right circling around to being on the Left???
I’d say the already have.