Parole Board is Wrong, as Usual
The National Parole Board is most renowned for springing psychotic killers.
Now, they refuse a parole to Robert Latimer, the Prairie farmer who agonized for years over the suffering of his disabled daughter before killing her. For Latimer, rightly or wrongly, this was an act of mercy.
Listen to the Parole Board at work.
"We were left with the feeling you have not developed the kind of sufficient insight and understanding of your actions," said Kelly-Ann Speck, one of the members of the panel."
How the manage to come up with that sermon for this man, but leave it in the prayer book for out-and-out crazies is unfathomable.
2 comments:
i agree completely but to some degree the parole board's hands are tied b/c this is the ultimate catch 22. mr.latimer must show remorse in order to get parole, but he has always claimed that his actions were the result of love and mercy. they also intimated that he would have had a much better chance at success if he had been represented by legal counsel. very unusual and puzzling decision by him. this is a terrible tragedy for all involved. i once saw an interview with a neighbour who said that latimer could have left tracy laying on a bed facedown, thereby resulting in her suffocation. there would have been no criminal action but she would have suffered so he chose the more humane way.
At the same time that Latimer was denied, we learn that the creep who stole the items from the sick girl at the hospital is back on the street. And I have ZERO doubt that if the latter was in front of the Parole Board, he would have blethered on about his past misdeeds (it's easy for cons like him to lie) and been released.
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