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Greg Ousley is an unlikely representative for sentencing reform. He is not a 16-year-old doing 20 years for his third drug felony or a 13-year-old who found his father’s loaded handgun and shot a playmate. What he is, or was, is a teenage boy who planned and carried out a crime so unthinkable that to most people it is not just a moral transgression but almost a biological one.  via Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That Enough? - NYTimes.com Photo: Ethan Levitas for The New York Times

Greg Ousley is an unlikely representative for sentencing reform. He is not a 16-year-old doing 20 years for his third drug felony or a 13-year-old who found his father’s loaded handgun and shot a playmate. What he is, or was, is a teenage boy who planned and carried out a crime so unthinkable that to most people it is not just a moral transgression but almost a biological one. 

via Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That Enough? - NYTimes.com

Photo: Ethan Levitas for The New York Times

07/20/12 at 12:57pm
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    hm.
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    This is a really interesting article. ” Certainly society might recoil at the notion that a child who murders his...
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    fascinating read… “It was my conviction that by focusing on an offender whose motives were less obvious, his story more...
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    “At about 10:30, Jobie and Bonnie went to bed. For the next hour, Greg sat on the couch and stared at the television —...
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    Really good article. Take the 20 or so mins to read it.
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    Very interesting read. The penal system in our country NEEDS reform. It should focus on rehabilitation and mental...
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