Laurie Troup was 28 when she was murdered during a video store robbery in Arkansas. Her mother Marge Utley and her son Joey were left devastated. One of the accomplices convicted in the murder has appealed his life sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court on the basis that it violates the 8th amendment prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment. The family of Laurie Troup have asked that the life sentence be upheld by the court, which they believe is entirely appropriate, given their innocent daughter’s brutal and permanent murder.
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". . . some persons will shun crime even if we do nothing to deter them, while others will seek it out even if we do everything to reform them. Wicked people exist. Nothing avails except to set them apart from innocent people. And many people, neither wicked nor innocent, but watchful, dissembling, and calculating of their opportunities, ponder our reaction to wickedness as a cue to what they might profitably do. We have trifled with the wicked, made sport of the innocent, and encouraged the calculators. Justice suffers, and so do we all."