Subject: Re: Felony Murder
but we -apparently- doubled-down on them. IMO, it's insane. It certainly isn't 'justice'.

I have offered, over the years, the US adheres to a puritanical punishment oriented culture. We often hear of "zero tolerance" policies, and calls for extreme sentences, even for non-violent crimes.

The US is one of relatively few countries that still has a death penalty. iirc, all the other countries that have a death penalty are corrupt, repressive, dictatorships.

Steve