In 2015, Billingsley was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with 16 years suspended, after he pleaded guilty to a first-degree sex offense, court records show.

The Maryland sex offender registry shows he was released from prison in October. The registry classified him in “tier 3,” which includes the most serious charges and requires offenders to register for life.

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    The problem with letting the state kill citizens is the shockingly high rate at which it will inevitably kill innocent people.

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      It should on be reserved for the worst of the worst. Not the people they are not sure of.

      Innocent people are being killed by people who have not conscious of guilt don’t care about laws we follow. Kill you just the same.

      Fix that fucking legal system and start a green revolution by deleting the worst criminls we have.

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        It should on be reserved for the worst of the worst. Not the people they are not sure of.

        Do you think you’re the first person that thought of this? Do you really think the justice system is too stupid to say “hey, we should be sure before we use the death penalty”?

        No matter what system you build, it will always kill some innocent people, because no system works perfectly. How is that acceptable to you?

        Innocent people are being killed by people who have not conscious of guilt don’t care about laws we follow. Kill you just the same.

        I’d rather be innocent and be killed by a murderer than by the state. Killing even more innocent people won’t help.

        Fix that fucking legal system and start a green revolution by deleting the worst criminls we have.

        Oh, we just have to fix the legal system, why didn’t we think of that before?

        Or we could delete you and be done with it. Sounds good?

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          You could if you wanted to but im just saying something and thats not really worth the death penalty, or is it?

          So we just have to accept the system as it is and not try to improve it? Oh boo thats also a very unoriginal idea, almost all ideas are unoriginal when it come to punishments.

          Not just the legal system but society, we live in a society that really does not care about the people lesser in society, literaly try be a homeless guy and get away with a crime where a rich person can just pay the bond and be out!

          Im happy you would rather be killed by a stranger than the state, especially crazy if you were innocent. but, I would argue that the person that killed you, if it was in cold blood, did it with malicious intent had a history of murder, killed you in a mass shooting with no remorse, I would protest the shit out of them being executed rather than spending life in prison. I know you’d probably be apposed to me doing so.

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            You could if you wanted to but im just saying something and thats not really worth the death penalty, or is it?

            Actually no, I think people that like the death penalty are pretty much murderers in waiting. Why wait until you kill someone innocent?

            So we just have to accept the system as it is and not try to improve it? Oh boo thats also a very unoriginal idea, almost all ideas are unoriginal when it come to punishments.

            Where exactly is the improvement when the state kills even more innocent people? Seems to me an improvement would be fewer innocent people put to death.

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        The death penalty shouldn’t be a thing. The amount of innocent people it is acceptable to execute in order to catch the “bad guys” is always zero.

        Our whole system needs an overhaul, but it starts with the general public acknowledging that prisoners are people too. Even the really heinous ones. We need to realize that and act accordingly. We need to help these people be better, and if we can’t help them be better. Then they need a safe place away from society.

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        It should on be reserved for the worst of the worst. Not the people they are not sure of.

        How is that different than the system right now?

        We’re treating the symptoms, not the cause. There will always be shit people out there, but this late stage capitalism hellscape in tandem with incarceration which is punative rather than focused on treatment makes for a really fucked up society where as soon as someone fucks up, they’re basically done for life. This outcome was tragically predictable

        I guess killing all of them is one solution, but what the fuck?

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          It would be hard to do that with the current system. Which means it would require a complete overhaul of the justice system, which I would argue is something that is desperately needed. There are too many corrupt individuals on all level of the system that needs correcting.

          Look at BTK he is just sitting there in prison, just chilling allowed to live while his victims are not.

          I guess I’m riled up but the Chad Doerman documents I watch because, 3 kids man, 3 kids that did nothing dead and he did not give one shit. His wife was wounded as she lay trying to protect them right there on the front lawn. Maybe its retribution i wish but I just know why he is allowed to live.

          Fixing our judicial system is arguably easier to fix than the human condition. We need to help people out of poverty, we need to give people their basic needs, they need education, heathcare and a whole host of things, housing, jobs, the list goes on. I would say if people had access to proper service and live reasonable life will eliminate a lot of crime. Can we do that?

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        the people they are not sure of

        lol you mean you put people in prison when you’re not sure they’re guilty over there?

        “Yeah we’re not completely sure he murdered this woman so we’re not going to kill him, just put him in prison for 30 years in case he’s actually guilty.”

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          No,

          Executions should be reserved for the worst of the worst and not the legally ambiguous