If using terrorism laws will put a piece of crap like Morales away FOREVER then I say go for it. Otherwise, he would only get 25-life and that isn't enough for cold-blooded, premeditated murder.

The problem is that the legislature disagrees with you, or else they'd have allowed for stiffer sentences for premeditated murder.

I've gotta call bull$#!+ on that. A 70 count indictment? That's part of what's wrong with our "justice" system. If he's guilty of murdering a ten year old girl, then convict him of that and sentence him appropriately for that. Anything else just endangers the rest of us.

Note: my comment was directed at the blog post, not jpe's rather reasonable comment above.

I disagree on this one. Any power granted to the Gov ends up being miss-used. Mission creep. The TSA was set up to catch terrorists....but since there aren't any terrorists dumb enough get caught when flying coach, they end up hassling the rest of us and groping the cute women. Drug law, terrorist law, gun law...I think it ALL ought to be abolished.

Well, I guess we'll just have to disagree about this one. I think that anything that insures that a murderous mutant is locked-up forever is worth it, including piling-on charges.

Jeff, the obvious problem with that is that feds pile on charges on anybody, including those innocent of wrongdoing, knowing that the sheer magnitude of trouble faced by the accused will likely result in a plea-bargained guilty plea. That is, the murderous mutants aren't the only ones to get screwed by those tactics.

Jeff, nice blog, BTW.

The BATF is notorious for using the "piling on" tactics when going after people. Charging persons with an offense per bullet, and other such nonsense.