We have become a society of non responsibility. No one is willing to take responsibility for their actions. Oh he was abused as a child should excuse murder? Like heck it should, the victim is just as dead! & his or Her family is grieving just as much. Prisons were never meant as a summer rest resort. They are prisons if they don't rehabilitate so be it. They are keeping a criminal off the streets & from injuring other innocent people. A person who commits a violent crime has demonstrated his or her inability to function in society & should be removed, it they are injured in the process oh well! I don't think they should be beaten or abused before they hit prison, but they should go to prison for a very long time. Frank