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Cover photo credit WCAX – Haf and Suzanne Zantop, Dartmouth College professors murdered by two Chelsea teens in 2001.
| More than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for juvenile murderers are unconstitutional, Robert Tulloch of Chelsea is edging closer to a new sentencing hearing, the Journal-Opinion reports. Tulloch is serving two such sentences after pleading guilty to murdering Haf and Susanne Zantop in Hanover, NH in 2001. He was 17 at the time of the killings. A New Hampshire Superior Court judge agrees with Tulloch’s attorneys who have argued that their client’s sentence violates the state constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. “The state can still argue for life sentences without the possibility of parole during resentencing but must prove the facts, such as the child being incapable of change, beyond a reasonable doubt,” the Union Leader reported. Tulloch’s co-defendant, James Parker, also of Chelsea, was released on parole last June after receiving a sentence of 25 years in prison. |
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He was old enough to know right from wrong, he talked an accomplice into participating and that qualifies him for his original sentence. SCOTUS ruled in error. The offense was cruel and unusual and the sentence was commensurate with the offense. If you are of an age where a doctor can remove your genitalia because of gender confusion, then you are old enough to be sentenced for a vicious, unprovoked murder as an adult. Our society needs to stop obsessing about how we treat the worst among us. In most parts of the world, he would have been executed for what he did. Whether he is reformed and found Jesus or is still just pure evil, there is a price to be paid for his crime, if only to act as a deterrent to others. God may forgive him as may the family of the liberal professors, but society wants it’s pound of flesh.
Keep him in prison….
Amen, Rich. About as well articulated and as common sense an argument as I’ve ever seen. Thank you.
And to think that some of those same folks who would argue for a sentence reduction for this guy might also be the ones arguing to lower the voting age in Vermont…
Are you kidding me?? That little so and so shouldn’t be let out of his cell the rest of his miserable life! That was a horrendous crime and needs to be punished accordingly!
Poor baby, I’ve got no sympathy, but could someone please dox his partner in crime!