murderers having to register like sex offenders do when they are out of prison

nice idea


how 'bout a tattoo to the face for both?

Drug dealers too.

...and jaywalkers.

If you are reffering to refined chemicals for example meth, coke heroin and alcohol I would agree.

If you mean God given plants intended for humanity such as pot plants, coca plants, poppys, mushrooms peyote etc. and coffee beans I would have to disagree.

Big suprise coming for the assholes who think they are smarter than God and put a man in a concrete and steel cage for possesing a plant God put on the Earth.

because murders are crimes of passion, and sex offenders are defected and cant be rehabilitaded.

Well if we continue as we are, getting crazier by the day. We might have to start executing people. It seems to me the craziness is growing exponentially.

That's a good one. Lol

Why are murderers even out of prison? That's the real problem.

I agree, but i guess thats just the society we live in today.

Remember this governer that pardoned 200 criminals, happened nit long ago

Mississippi ex-governor says pardons were misrepresented

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2012 (Reuters) — Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on Sunday blamed political opponents for much of the uproar set off after he pardoned more than 200 criminals.

State leaders often issue pardons in their waning days in office but the number of pardons by Barbour as he finished his term as governor on January 10 was unusually high. Those pardoned included murderers and the move set off a firestorm of criticism with Barbour's successor, Phil Bryant, proposing changes in the pardon process and a judge blocking release of pardoned prisoners.

In an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" program Sunday Barbour, a Republican, said his pardons had been misrepresented.

"Sure, we could have done it better because we had no idea that the reporting of it, in particular some of the misstatements by political opponents, would let the public think we'd let some 200 people out of the penitentiary," he said. "We had 26 people out of the penitentiary ... half of them for health reasons.

"Most of them had been out for years and years and years. They're no more a threat to the people of Mississippi now than they were the week before they got their pardon."

Attorney General Jim Hood, the only Democrat in a statewide office in Mississippi, has filed a complaint alleging that 156 of the pardons were unconstitutional because not enough public notice was given. A state judge has scheduled a hearing for Monday.

Barbour cited Hood in the controversy over the pardons.

"It is becoming public now that the attorney general's office was very involved in this," he said.

The pardons also have come under scrutiny on racial grounds. About two-thirds of the pardons went to white prisoners while two-thirds of Mississippi's prison population is black.

(Writing by Bill Trott; Editing by Jackie Frank) nytimes

Even if God planted those plants it is still against God's and man's laws to use them to get high. In Romans 13 we are commanded to obey the laws of those in authority over us because God has put them there to be in authority over us. Also we are told not to get "drunk". I would think that that command would also apply to getting "high" as both alters our mind and thinking process.

Regarding Sex Offenders - Here in Texas you can become a registered sex offender just by peeing on the side of the road (if a minor sees you in the act). So just being a "sex offender" doesn't necessarily mean that you molested a child. I agree that they should make ALL felons register, not just one group. Also, there should be a distinction in the label of sex offender so that people can tell if someone pee'ed on the side of the road or molested 20 children.

Who is the coward anonymous? Not all sec crimes are the same. Some are a boy friend is a year or two older than the girl friend and he has this liable for the rest of his life. The laws need revisited-, and redefined accourding to the severity

Because you have to make room for all the non-violent criminals.