Posted on 08/03/2007 11:42:20 AM PDT by blam
Life Term for Teen in Principal's Death
Friday August 3, 2007 7:01 PM
By TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press Writer
BARABOO, Wis. (AP) - A 16-year-old was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the shooting death of his high school principal.
Eric Hainstock was convicted a day earlier of the first-degree intentional homicide of Weston Schools Principal John Klang last September.
Sauk County Circuit Judge Patrick Taggart said Hainstock would be eligible for parole in 30 years. The judge urged the state's Department of Corrections to place Hainstock in a juvenile center.
``I do believe you can be rehabilitated,'' Taggart told the boy, who showed no emotion as the sentence was read.
Klang's widow, Sue Klang, told the judge during the sentencing hearing that her life is now consumed with ``horror, agony, emptiness, despair.''
``John was the love of my life. My best friend,'' she said.
Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence. Prosecutor Pat Barrett argued that Hainstock knew what he was doing when he went to school with guns and ammunition Sept. 29, the morning homecoming was to begin at the school 65 miles northwest of Madison.
Hainstock's attorney, Rhoda Ricciardi, said her client was emotional and immature and never meant to kill Klang. She found him watching the children's cartoon ``SpongeBob SquarePants'' before his sentencing Friday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Why should we view him as any different than the Columbine killers?...........
There’s students killing other students, teachers, and principals yet administratiors are more concerned with instituting urine tests just for those select students who have enough self confidence and personal drive to enroll in sports, band, and choir.
Practice biting on pillows, Eric
This is the quality of the posts. These people could easily be the Future Democrats of America.
Too bad the kid will continue to be a danger to society.
Up for parole in 30 years.
His victim and his family gets no parole.
The judge believes he can be rehabilitated. After 30 years in prison he won’t be able to function in the outside world. He could be released in 2037. What will the world be like then?
If it keeps going the way it's going, he'll fit right in.........
The kid was badly abused and bullied, but that does not mitigate his action in murdering the principal. I’m not sure 30 years is long enough, but I rather suspect he’ll be so bullied and harassed in prison that he won’t survive - probably suicide if he’s as badly off as his supporters make out.
Well then it ain't really a life sentence now is it.
L
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
If this is intended to elicit "sympathy" it has the opposite effect.
Even accepting that he is intellectually and emotionally challenged, right and wrong are understood my millions of other equally challenged, who never hurt a fly.
The little SOB should have fried. Deterrence-by-example is a very neglected concept.
You got that right!
Society forgets that "children" go to school because they have not achieved the knowledge, experience, judgement and maturity to interact in society as adults.
Nutjobs like these "Youth Liberation" morons simply underscore the reality.
Personally, I think all deliberate killers found guilty should get the death penalty, regardless of age, if they kill more than one person. I think not executing them after killing just one is a gift from society, which many of us accept with utmost reluctance.
I take it you are posting the link just as a window into the idiot Liberal mindset.
At least I hope so!
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