Teah Wimberly sentenced to 25 years:
Teah Wimberly was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2008 shooting of classmate Amanda Collette in the halls of Dillard High School in Florida.
Amanda Collete rejected Wimberly’s romantic advances which led to the shooting.
Wimberly’s lawyers used the ‘she had a hard life’ defense.
Wimberly was tried as an adult.
Pretty rough sentence for a 15y old..
Not as rough as the death sentence she gave to her 15 year old victim.
Exactly.
Where I come from, the maximum sentence for juvenile murder is 10 years. This might be disputable, but a person 15 years of age is able to make significant change in personality and character. Nobody will take advantage from a prison sentence that long, not the relatives, not the offender nor the society. If she will be released from prison, she will probably be more of a criminal than ever before.
Fine. Then keep her locked up for good.
Trenchreynold’s you are a Perpetrating Faggot!!! All you do is Run Ur Mouth like a Bitch!!! Dont nobody want to hear that Shit!!! As long as We’re human being we’re gonna make Mistakes!!! When they Caught you in the Shower With that Man, Noone Crucified yo faggot Ass!!! So give the Not so perfect people a Pass!!! Its never been a Perfect World, and Never Will be!!!
I’m sorry. I couldn’t hear you from this side of the fast food drive thru speaker. Try not to get too much salt on the fries this time.
I just read this and I could not stop laughing. You’re a boss.
Like a boss as the kids say.
So you think it is right to destroy a whole life for a big mistake she has done when closer to being a child than an adult in a moment of anger and distress? What do your kids in the US get if they don’t murder for rejected love like it seems to be in this case, but just because of bad habits or upbringing? You lock them up for a hundred years?
A mistake? You’re going to call the taking of Amanda Collette’s life a mistake?
A mistake is taking the car out without your parents’ permission. What Teah Wimberly did was not a mistake. She willingly took a gun to school for the purpose of murdering someone who rebuffed her romantic advances. That is not a mistake.
She chose to destroy two lives. Amanda Collette’s and her own. She got what she deserved.
She’ll be like 40 when she gets out and can make the choice to have a normal life, Amanda doesn’t have that choice.
Regarding this you have to consider the age and length of the sentence. I’m not saying she shouldn’t be punished hard, but 10 or 15 years are a long time is well and it sure was a mistake in refering to a choice she made wrong.
At first, what seems to me not really anchored in American society is, that justice is never about revenge, it is about penance and resocialization. Incarceration of a grown adult for 25 years when a 1st degree murder seems justified to me, for a 15 year old girl, probably less developed in mental terms than in physical, is cruel. As you said Nancy, she will be 40 years old when beeing free again, which is when half her life is gone for a wrongdoing made, I repeat myself here, when nearly being a child. You can not simply compare this act with the one of an adult because it had the same consequences.
I don’t know if you guys are familiar with the sentence “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” It is an old saying over here in Europe and pretty much matches the situation here, obvious on your saying Trench, “she got what she deserved.” Ruining her life as a consequence of her bad actions won’t make anything better, even could prove as a reappearing danger for society depending on how she is developing in jail. Spoken in general terms, it would have been more efficient for everybody, giving here a lot shorter jailtime from 8-12 years (penance) and work with experts who are able to deal with occurences like this, helping her developing a character (resocialization) that society could release her with the feeling of having rewon a person.
Keep in mind: A court decision is never able to make up the worth of a human life, no matter how ungracious it is.
Do you think what Tim Kretschmer did was just a mistake? If he had been captured by authorities what do you think an appropriate sentence would have been?
Well, you need to consider that Kretschmer had psychological issues, but nevertheless probably killed out of hate and anger over his own failing and not only one, but 16 persons he did not know in person. As a 17-year old, he would sure have been tried as a juvenile, which means the maximum punishment would have been 10 years of jail, but it is safe to assume he would have been admitted into a mental institution, from the beginning or maybe after serving his jailtime.
It is difficult to find an appropriate sentence for such a cruel massacre, but, given the fact that the treating psychiatrists and responsible judges would have recommend so due to the change in his personality and concluding it is safe for society, it might have been acceptable to release him about 30-40 years after the murders.
However I guess, if this case really would have been tried in front of a court, I doubt he would have been incarcerated for a time this long, probably not more than 25 years.
That’s all well and good but with all due respect I asked what you think should have been a proper sentence.
I wish i can do something to help
I dont know teah or Amanda i wish could have meet them
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