Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour suspended the sisters' life sentences for armed robbery.

They sure are especially if you are a black male.

Good on Haley Barbour!

Do you think your Governor would pardon two brothers who lured two women into an ambush then hit the women in the head with a shotgun and took their wallets, making off with only $11? I am sure not. I have no problem with these women release but I want to see this equal level of kindness towards men and women.

Brothers or sisters, it's a rare circumstance. I don't know what he would do. Do you?

I bet he would if it was saving the state money because one of them had kidney disease...I know you have a gender thing, but I think this one was more about money in the end....the state's money.

one of the rare cases where gender inequality benefits a woman...

one of the rare cases where gender inequality benefits a woman???

Name some that benefit men! How about kids? A woman can kill a man's unborn baby and never have to ask him. I have talked to dozens of men, some of whom were suicidal because they wanted the baby that was aborted. How about after a child is born. Can a man walk away from ALL responsibility no questions asked and even get sympathy for doing so? Not hardly. He can be forced to pay for 18 or more years often even if the baby is not his!

How about selective service? Men still have to sign up for it when they are 18 or they are incense felonies and lose a lot of benefits women take for granted and often have just because they are female. I am sure you have heard of AFFIRMATIVE ACTION that helps women but men need not apply.

How about divorce and child custody. You hear about divorce Barbie that cost $500,000 because it comes with Ken's house, boat, car and whatever else. It is only funny because it happens far too often. And she ends up with Ken's kids while he has to pay hefty child support even if he never gets to see his kids again because mommy will not let him although he can get court order after court order.

I could go on to dozens of other female only things but I think you get the point now.

I mean I really don't know where to start. Our entire society is male-centric. As a white man I certainly earn more money and am generally afforded more opportunities. In everything. Our criminal justice system tends to focus more on men...just like the rest of our systems.

Our criminal justice system tends to focus more on men...just like the rest of our systems and that is a PLUS for men? Prisons are about the only thing feminist want to remain male only. In fact, some feminist state that no woman should be sent to prison no matter what they do especially if they have kids but you are right about this statement as there are many things that are crimes for men only.

Oh pay? There is no real pay gap. How long have you been on the job? How much time do you take off? The Independent Women's Forum has shown many times that the pay gap is a myth. These are women who show but even they are starting to realize that there may be a pay gap. Never married women make more money in their late 30's or 40's than never married men.

I work in a hospital and I had an LPN complain about this so called pay gap. I asked her what she would think if a new female LPN who just became an LPN came and wanted the same pay she gets. She said it would make her angry. I asked why. She said well she just became an LPN and I have been working here as an LPN for 15 years so it would be unfair. BINGO....that is the very reason many women get paid less than men. It is suppose to be equal pay for equal work but that is not always the case either. Pro Tennis payers do not have equal work but because of the belly aching females, they now get the same pay as men but they still play 3 sets as compared to the men's 5. Is that fair? The feminist screams about equal pay in that case is deafening.

Check out If Men Have All the Power How Come Women Make the Rules? There are several places you can download it for free, just Google it.

I agree that the pay gap is disappearing as women gain more upward mobility in the workplace but I fail to see how they are making all the rules when men still hold a majority of the positions of power. I just can't cotton to any argument where the premise is a pity party for the white man because women and people with different skin colors are starting to get a say in things.

Are you kidding?

The men who were actually holding those guns were related also, they did the real "Dirt / Heavy Lifting) Why did the prosecution give plea deals to the ones holding the guns to get a harsher sentence for their accomplices ?

I am real lost and I can't find rationale in your argument.

Why so much hate in your soul? Do you real have a soul at all?

Too many bad attorneys to go around especially court appointed. Unfortunately justice only for those who can pay.

Who do you think will pay for the surgery when they are released? They have no job, no health insurance.

We don't know. Maybe family members or local church members will. I't's dangerous and reckless to assume that our tax dollars will, and what if our tax dollars did ? I don't mind at all. No one complains about the $12 billion plus in American tax dollars that go to Israel every year, even though there are less than 8 million people in that country.

I have no problem with tax dollars used to provide healthcare either in or out of prison. I do however have a problem with one justice system that forgives crimes commuted by women but not men. And media that plays on emotions to justify bias judicial system.

white collar crimes destroy families. an armed robbery is an anecdote to impress your grandkids with

not always, and being tongue in cheek, but i hope you see my point

You sure change your story quick when it is a Republican hopeful for President doing the pardoning. Haley made a good decision, it saved the taxpayers money and it saved a woman's life. I thought you progressive types believed in second chances.

With all respect, I beg to differ.

We need to look in the underlying problems here. Sometimes robbery and other street crimes are the by-products on white collar crimes. The real problems are at the top starting with bad socio-economic policies, financial loop holes, social injustices and escalates down to the lower class people. But again, it is the lower class who are the victims of the bad political and economic system who ends up getting harsh penalties but the source of problems always walk out free.

Have you seen their rap sheets? How many crimes have they comitted in the past?
The liberal news doesn't mention those facts, now do they.
Thise two will be scammin immediately when freed.

I have to follow you.

exactly. thats another reason this sentence was absurd. if i am risking life anyway, why bother leaving potential witnesses?

Very true. Does it make a difference to people if a teen was murdered for only his sneakers as opposed to a teen whom is murdered during a drug deal? The real answer is that it does matter, and that people's sensibilities will always be at play. Our criminal justice system is not autonomous and therefor will always have a thinking, feeling human at the helm. In reality those women would have committed this armed robbery whether the reward was $11 or $11,000, and if the victims had resisted chances are they'd be dead now. These two will always be guilty and in no way does releasing them from prison forgive or glorify their crime. It's something they themselves; as well as family, friends, and future aquaintances/employers will never allow them to forget. But, life does call for leniancy in some cases. Whether this is a deserving case is more for us to decide.

no but life for 11 dollars sounds more shocking i guess.. but even if they got a million dollars, life is still to me a harsh sentence

the problem with the 'thinking human' at the end of the equation is too often there isnt one. with mandatory sentence guidelines, put in place to supposedly make things 'fair', judges are no longer judging but simply referees to make sure proper protocols are being followed

I agree that life is a harsh sentence. But the $11 issue is raised to mitigate what they did, which was commit armed robbery. They threatened a man's life with a gun in order to rob him. The amount is inconsequential, it is not a mitigating circumstance. They didn't rob a safeway for bread and milk because they were starving..now THAT would be a mitigating circumstance to me. But the $11 is brought in to this conversation for one purpose, to generate sympathy for the criminal.

All that being said, I think a harsh sentence is appropriate for this particular case of armed robbery based on what I know, and I to be fair I don't KNOW much about the particulars of this case. But LIFE is a far too harsh a sentence in my opinion.

Media is spinning this story for the public to feel sorry for these two women. I have never seen men freed from serving life sentence because it was only $11.

Hey Einstein, exactly where and how did you conclude that the men were murdered? The article says the women were convicted of armed robbery, and at no place in the article is murder mentioned...sounds more like two chumps thought they were headed into the weeds for some hanky panky and got a different kind of whacking than what they were looking for. But hell, I'm terminally cynical...

and the black girls got two life sentences...for an $11 armed robbery where no weapons were fired?

Oh hell no, this was Mississippi, it had nothing to do with race or gender.

So how much do you have to get for it to be armed robbery? $100? $200? How much do you have to get if you rob a bank for it to be bank robbery?

Also, you are getting on someone for assuming they were murdered but here you are assuming these men wanted sex but nothing said anything about that either. They could have told them someone was hurt and needed help too you know but it seems much like society, it has always got to be the man's fault!

Well, I think you should actually be the one having to do the robbing. I don't like the 'if you were there you were just as culpable' premise. And you shouldn't be pulling a life sentence for any amount stolen. How much time did the Enron guys get?

noone is disputing it was armed robbery.. just that the sentence of life for it was harsh

We do not have all of the info about this case, these two violent women may have cased more harm to their victims BECAUSE they got only $11.

damn, that is EXACTLY what I meant...it is always the man's fault.

God I love it when someone reads right through all the BS to exactly what your actual point really is...

Yes, I made that unforgivable assumption that two chumps probably headed into the ...wherever the hell it is they headed for sex, but holy shit, a life sentence for armed robbery and no weapons were fired?

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well maybe, just maybe, we should try to get at least a little more of the info before we post stories like this...otherwise you end up with nothing more than idiotic, fired from the hip comments like:
"It has always got to be the man's fault"

sarcasm font is stuck in On position...my apologies.

What would you like the research on?

Statistics suggest that men are more often convicted and for longer sentences than women.

Statistics suggest a lot of things, INCLUDING the fact that men are more often violent than women.

well to be fair that would explain the more often convicted but not the longer sentences

WHAT! You posted some study that didn't come from a Women's Shelter?
Oh hell, current has gone to the dogs.

as to those injuries, you can do a lot of damage with a cast iron skillet to the head...just sayin

must we always be fair....can't we just be assholes once in a while?

lol apparently i was since one of my comments got ganked

my congratulations...although they just ganked my comment telling you that you could now consider yourself officially initiated by current, but hell, I just can't figure out which one of those community toes....err, I mean guidelines I stepped on by saying that.

Sisters also participated in beating two men with a shotgun and participating in robbery.

oh. guns.armed robbery. got it

still.. life????

so you feel life in prison is a fair sentence for that? i respectfully disagree, but hey differences of opinion make life interesting

I agree life is harsh. American justice system is extremely harsh and unforgiving.

yeah the people that commit acts are wrong, completely.. some might blame society for creating a world where we in turn create such uncaring creatures, but they should be punished. i just feel like if i was the type of person who would do armed roibbery, and knew i faced life for it, then i would be a murderer as well to better my chances to elude 'justice'. its black humor, (no pun intended) but like katt williams said, if i raped someone and they had that penis jaws of death thing up in them,, i am going from rapist to murderer in no point no seconds. if changes things from letting the punishment fitting the crime, to making the crime fit the punishment, i fear

If a person would think logically before commuting the crime they would probably decide against it altogether.

perhaps, but logic and morality are two separate things

And Haley Barbour, the Governor of Mississippi, pardoned them. Get that?

yup. although one would expect that at someone who was a politician with national aspirations would have a more 21st century viewpoint than the average podunk in Mississippi

Speaking as an average podunk in Mississippi, you never know about our viewpoints. We might suprise you if you give us a chance.

Eloquent and accurate response!

Why?
I would say it is the prevailing cultural rationale here on the N. A. continent, whereas that is not so is most Asian or Arabic countries where women are treated as chattel.

Judicial system in US does not treat men and women equally. Men get harsher prison sentences for the same crimes, men are incarcerated while women would get parole, and men face the charges more often then women for the same crimes. And let's not forget sex crimes and how easy it is to convict even innocent men, or the husband who will spend next 5 years in prison for simply reading his wife's e-mail when he suspected infidelity.

Yes, your points are valid, and so is mine.

Judicial system must be gender unbiased.

~ true.

Lady justice is peeking.