So how do you feel about David Sweat? (The escaped prisoner). Do you want him to be caught?
David Sweat
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Opinions, art, debate
So how do you feel about David Sweat? (The escaped prisoner). Do you want him to be caught?
Clarissa's Blog 
Is this a trick question?
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No, I just feel like I don’t want him to be caught, and I was wondering if I’m alone.
Seeing those hundreds of police officers marching against this one guy – I don’t know, makes me feel bad for him.
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I have the same sort of feeling, but mainly, I think, because it would point up the fact that no security system is perfect and that the comfortable belief that it is is always an illusion.
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This guy is a murderer who probably wouldn’t hesitate to kill again. He’s a danger to any innocent people who cross his path, and his manhunt is costing the taxpayers of NY a fortune every day that he’s loose. He has no sympathy from me at all.
The sooner he’s neutralized as a threat (captured or killed), the better.
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“I don’t know, makes me feel bad for him.”
Would you feel the same thing if they were looking for him within 10 miles of your home?
He’s a convicted murderer. Pity is wasted on him.
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“Would you feel the same thing if they were looking for him within 10 miles of your home?”
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\ I don’t have any anxiety issues, so yes, I would.
I think anxiety issues are one thing and ignoring danger is another. 🙂
I read that he is an escaped murderer and do want him to be caught soon. He can’t start a normal life, if he would want that in the first place, so he’ll try to survive by crime: stealing, killing anybody who recognizes him and may alert police, etc. Don’t want innocents to get hurt and more tax money wasted.
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The more realistic scenario is that he manages to cross the border, and they won’t be able to follow him any more. This isn’t a densely populated area where the hunt is taking place.
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“The more realistic scenario is that he manages to cross the border, and they won’t be able to follow him any more”
And he’s Canada’s (and some hapless Canadians’) problem!
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Canada needs to have at least one real problem to solve. 🙂 Canadians are barely even aware they have their own elections coming up because there’s so little at stake.
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I remembered Israel’s large manhunt for a serial rapist who got 35 years for raping 14 women. And wondered whether you would wantsuch serial rapist to get away too. If not, it seems kind of weird since murder is heavier crime. I am not judging your feelings, just thought how human feelings sometimes are inconsistent.
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Sex crimes are in a separate category because there is zero doubt that the criminal will reoffend. This is why they go on sex offense registry lists and are monitored in perpetuity. There is, however, no evidence that people guilty of armed robbery are compelled to reoffend.
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I thought he had been convicted of murder?
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He shot a sheriff’s deputy in the process of committing the crime.
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Yes he had.
http://news10.com/2015/06/08/family-relives-deputys-death-after-convicts-escape-prison/
money quote: ““They said they couldn’t give him the death penalty,” Tarsia’s father, Phillip Tarsia, said. “That’s what they told us, so they gave him life without parole.””
All the more reason to have fried him when they had the chance.
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New York is too “enlightened” to have the death penalty.
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\ All the more reason to have fried him when they had the chance.
I read that putting people on a death row costs more than giving them life sentences because of lawyers, appeals to courts, etc.
Also, it’s known that a certain % of executed will be innocent, and you can’t return anybody to life even if one finds out the executed was innocent.
Finally, you can’t have death penalty without turning your own citizens into executioners. Afterwards those executioners are living near you. Do you really want to have more of such people? (“More” since, unfortunately, every nation state needs soldiers who are ready to kill.) In America, physicians participated in executions. Do you truly feel A-OK with this physician treating you afterwards?
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MALONE, N.Y. — David Sweat, the surviving prison escapee on the run in northern New York, was shot by a state trooper on Sunday, according to three people briefed on the matter. His condition was unknown.
Mr. Sweat, 35, was alive and in custody, according to two of the people.
The shooting occurred after a State Police sergeant saw Mr. Sweat walking down a road toward him, according to one of the people. The sergeant ordered Mr. Sweat to stop, but he broke into a run and the sergeant, a firearms instructor, opened fire, the person said. It was not immediately clear how many shots were fired or whether Mr. Sweat was armed.
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Well, at least we’ll get a chance to hear about something other than the manhunt on the news, so that’s good.
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