offenders--the Three Strikes Law. Under this law, a person who is convicted of

three felonies is given a mandatory 25-to-life sentence. A felony is defined as any

crime punishable by 1 year or more in prison.

The law has been criticized for applying a one-size-fits-all sentence to repeat

offenders. The often noted example is one young man who received the sentence

after stealing a pizza. However, advocates of the law quote the large number of

repeat offenders that always seem to slip through the justice system without the

It provides a fix for a flawed justice system so that repeat offenders stay in prison.

To many crime victims, the U.S. judicial system has become somewhat of a joke.

Evidentiary exception rules, case backlogs, liberal sentences, plea bargaining, and a

protect-the-criminal-rather-than-the-victim mentality has far too often let criminals

slip through the cracks. Most of the crime nowadays is committed by repeat

offenders. The three strikes law is a way to ensure justice is done even if the system

The law provides a very effective deterrent after the 2nd conviction. Argu

If just one case violates the amendment, the law is unconstitutional and should be

offenders. Instead, it expends large amounts of money keeping older criminals,

The law applies to 3 convictions, not 3 crimes (i.e. criminals may get away

laws that potentially do so much good and obtain all their objectives, the question of

have a fourth option to consider in sentencing, to send a convicted killer to prison

year in current dollars . The intent of the three-strikes law is, of course, to lock up

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