Sorry - WA gave ridiculously low bail in an iron clad case of child rape, for which Clemmons should have been executed on the spot - for the hyper-technical.
That still has nothing to do with Huckabee’s rightheaded decision to commute his sentence when he was only a 16&17 year old robber and petty thief who had served 11 years. And yes, human nature and statistics show that such over the top sentences have often created monsters - which we must now try to avoid.
Interesting. You declare that long sentences ‘create monsters’ and OTOH declare that we should execute people without trials. Go figure.