Wow - fascinating punishment! What do you think?

What do you think?

  • That punishment is out of line.

    Votes: 2 11.1%

  • She deserves it!

    Votes: 10 55.6%

  • I'm not sure what to think.

    Votes: 3 16.7%

  • I really don't care.

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • Total voters
    18
SexyBoo

SexyBoo

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CNN said:
BUTLER, Pennsylvania (AP) --
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CNN said:
A woman who was drunk when she killed a man in a head-on collision must carry a photograph of the teacher in his coffin as part of her five years of probation, a judge ruled.
Jennifer Langston pleaded guilty in September to vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving.
Prosecutors said Langston was drunk and talking on a cell phone in June 2002 when she crossed the center line and hit a pickup truck carrying Glenn Clark and his pregnant wife, Annette. He died, his wife remains in a coma and their son, born by Caesarean section five months after the crash, is being raised by relatives.
A judge sentenced Langston to 30 days in jail, plus house arrest and probation, and ordered her to carry a picture of Glenn Clark.
But when Clark's mother provided the photo of Clark in a casket, Langston, 27, objected. Her attorney said the "spirit of the agreement" was that the photo be of Clark when he was alive.
"This makes no sense to me. Requiring Jennifer to carry a picture like that defeats the whole purpose if the purpose is to look and remember," said Langston's attorney, Michael Sherman. "Who in their right mind will look at such a picture?"
Butler County Judge George Hancher ruled Tuesday that Langston would have to carry the coffin photo.
Clark's mother, Rosellen Moller, has been unapologetic.
"That's where she put him -- in a casket. That's what she did for him. I'd just shut my mouth if I was her," Moller said.
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I read this the other day. Yesterday? It's kind of weird. Very weird.

I think i'm mixed emotion on it, though. On the one hand, it seems rather fitting. On the other hand, rather ... cruel almost.
 
I think her license should have been permanently revoked. If she were caught driving again, a mandatory jail sentence of 5 years with no early release for good behaviour.

I'm sorry I didn't vote in your poll, but none of the choices worked for me. I would have chosen "The punishment is meaningless." What good does carrying a photo around do? I don't think it will change her behaviour, and it certainly won't bring Glenn Clark back. Better to keep her off the road, permanently. :mad:
 
:cuss: They should take away her right to drink, too...If she gets caught drinking again she should rot in jail...I hate these stories..
 
5 years probation for being drunk and killing one person, taking a set of parents away from a child, and probalby killing two people by the time the wife's story is done. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

I am so sick and tired of hearing about people getting lenient sentences because they were drunkl. Like they didn't make the decision to get drunk.
 
I would just assume that she have to spend her entire jail term locked inside the coffin with the victim. Let her out for 5 minutes every other hour for potty breaks and food. Other than that... let her view her handywork up close.
 
unclehobart said:
I would just assume that she have to spend her entire jail term locked inside the coffin with the victim. Let her out for 5 minutes every other hour for potty breaks and food. Other than that... let her view her handywork up close.
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See now, that works for me. Except she also has to pay child support for that kid too, since she took the kids parents away.
 
unclehobart said:
I would just assume that she have to spend her entire jail term locked inside the coffin with the victim. Let her out for 5 minutes every other hour for potty breaks and food. Other than that... let her view her handywork up close.
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Now that is a good idea.

"That's where she put him -- in a casket. That's what she did for him. I'd just shut my mouth if I was her," Moller said.
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Pretty much sums it up for me. She got off easy as it is, she really *should* shut her mouth.
 
unclehobart said:
I would just assume that she have to spend her entire jail term locked inside the coffin with the victim. Let her out for 5 minutes every other hour for potty breaks and food. Other than that... let her view her handywork up close.
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Works for me too.
 
I like that one too. People are getting away with things nowadays. I like the fact that she has to carry a pic of him dead. After all, she did put him in that coffin, so let her see what she did to him.
 
I like the idea of her having to pay part child support for taking away a child's parent. :nod:


Anyone else remember a movie from some time ago ... I forget the specifics, but basically a guy killed someone in a drunk driving accident (iirc) and he was ordered to write a check for $1 every week for x amount of years or the rest of his life. I forget. The punishment was horrible for him, made him crazy. But, I could be recalling wrong.
 
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