Issue Position: Crime and Criminals

Issue Position

I serve on the House Judiciary committee, which is the committee that deals specifically with criminals. Regretfully, criminals are viewed by most elected officials as victims. They argue that they turned to crime, for example, because they were raised by a single parent or because they grew up in a bad neighborhood. What about personal responsibility? I am sick of the bleeding heart liberals that want to protect criminals.
I support the death penalty. With today's technology there is little chance that we are convicting innocent individuals. I believe that with two eyewitnesses and a DNA match in a cold blooded murder case that the death penalty should be mandatory.
I believe that there should be truth in sentencing. By this I mean that a ten year sentence should be ten years not 6.5 years because of good time credits. I also believe that second time offenders in brutal crimes should never receive parole and early release.

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