Teen Sentenced to 25 Years for Prom Day Fatal Stabbing Source: Teen Sentenced to 25 Years for Prom

[smirkymonkey]

Source: CBS News

"A teenager from Milford, Connecticut, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder in the stabbing death of a classmate at their high school hours before junior prom in 2014.

Sanchez was stabbed to death in a stairwell at Jonathan Law High School in Milford on April 25, 2014. Plaskon's family and friends have said he was upset Sanchez turned down his prom invitation.

A judge sentenced Plaskon to 25 years in prison Monday morning, calling the sentence "appropriate, just and fair."
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Plaskon, who chose not to address the court at his sentencing, will remain at Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire until he is 22. He will be eligible for parole in 13 years, after 60 percent of his sentence, because he was a minor at the time of the crime and has served two years."




Read more: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Christopher-Plaskon-Maren-Sanchez-Milford-Prom-Day-Stabbing-Suspect-381905091.html

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Another outrage! This scum stabs this beautiful, talented girl to death for rejecting his prom invitation and he gets a paltry 25 years, eligible for parole after 13! Sickening! He should never be let back out into society again.

[PSPS]

1. This doesn't belong in LBN.

[smirkymonkey]

15. This story was published 3 minutes before I posted it.

n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Quarter century?

Look, I don't know what a life is worth, on a receipt, but heavy-handed no opportunity for rehabilitation into society punishment is not normally a hallmark of the political left.

What he did is inhumane, and cannot be un-done. Must we as society follow the same path to avenge it?

[christx30]

3. She doesn't get a life.

Why should he?
And especially when the reason for the murder was so petty. What else could he find in society as a reason to murder? Hope you don't get the parking place he was waiting on. I'd hate to think what he'd do.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. I know she doesn't.

Read my post over and over until you find the part where I said he should retain his life as it was.

Nor did I suggest he should be let out tomorrow. Parole is linked to efforts to rehabilitate, and acceptance of responsibility, and in many cases some form of restitution.

If we don't hold out the possibility of betterment and re-integration into society, what incentive do the incarcerated have to not just become mindless animals in cages?

If they were just savage mindless beasts I'd offer to put them down myself. Putting creatures in cages forever is cruel.
But these are human beings, and as horrible as he is, I have to assume he can be helped, that his behavior can be corrected.


Incarceration is partly as a warning to others. You get diminishing returns on the threat, so from a preventative standpoint, as a cautionary tale to other assholes that will so cheaply value human life, there's little difference between 25 years and life. So that's worth considering too.

[christx30]

16. Shoving a knife into a woman

because she turns you down is cruel.
And he's not going to be there forever. He could get out in 13 years. He could spend his 35th birthday in the world, while his victim doesn't get to go to college or get married or do anything else ever

I have no sympathy for him at all. Let him rot for as long as the law allows.
As far as treating prisoners as animals, well, he murdered a girl because of rejection. That's pretty animalistic behavior.

[smirkymonkey]

19. +1000

[DemMomma4Sanders]

4. Its a hallmak of the far right....not leftists.

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Teens, people ahouldn't recieve sentences like this until they're 23 and their brains fully developed.

The parents should recieve more scrutiny than anyone else.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Here's the litmus test I use.

Could I spend 25 years as that kid's jailer? Could I pass him food/let him out for exercise, interact with him for 25 years as the man who keeps him away from society, in a cage and a kennel? Would I utterly fail to see him as a human being for that entire duration?

And if he changed, if he worked to better himself, if he took responsibility, if he did what he could as restitution to the parents, could my rage at his crime burn long enough to KEEP him in that cage for the full 25 years?

And if I did, who is the prisoner? Me or him?


I agree, it's a far-right marker. I WANT to say something about the user name of one of the respondents upthread, and the statistical approval link between Christians and capital and corporal punishment, but it would be a cheap shot, and wouldn't really help anything I suppose.

[smirkymonkey]

12. He was old enough to know the difference between right and wrong.

Why on DU is the sympathy always with the perpetrator? Never with the victim and their family? No concern for what they have been through or have to live with for the rest of their lives.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Where did you get that ridiculous idea?

And why do you assume the victim's family wouldn't agree with me?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

17. The family did comment in the article posted

Sanchez's father. Jose Sanchez, called the 25-year-sentence too lenient.

"My daughter is not walking out of her grave. Her mother and I will not get her back," he said.

[StevieM]

9. On a slight change of subject, is 23 the age for full brain formation that you have heard?

I thought it was 25, and I have also heard that it can be as young as 23 or as old as 27. Where did you get your information from?

Also, just a heads up, but you misplaced a homonym. I think you meant to say "until they're 23."

[DemMomma4Sanders]

10. 23 for reasoning I believe, either way this kid shoulnd't receive life behind bars

if societally we wish to see rehabilitation.

Prison doesn't rehabilitate, study after study shows it simply creates sexual abuse victims and more effective criminals.

[cstanleytech]

6. No, paltry is getting 10 years probation for killing 4 people while driving drunk.

[GeorgeGist]

8. because he was a minor at the time of the crime

[Blue_Tires]

25. +1

[TexasBushwhacker]

26. And he pled no contest

Made things easy for the state.

[Ohioblue22]

11. It'd be a real shame if something were to happen to him in prison.

[smirkymonkey]

18. I wouldn't shred a tear if he was treated the same way he treated his victim.

n/t

[LanternWaste]

21. After we replace justice with vengeance, tears are often the last thing shed.

After we replace justice with vengeance, tears are often the last thing shed.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. The Supreme Court has determined that life without parole

Is unconstitutional for juveniles. They're quite right about that on science and law.

[udbcrzy2]

20. Life does not always mean life

In Missouri life without parole means that you are sentenced to 30 years and there is no parole until 30 years have passed. Some states offer 'good time' off for good behavior where they are given however many days off of their sentence. There have been people who committed murders who only serve 12 years and walk out of prison. Which they should do once they serve their time.

[Doctor_J]

22. 25 years in prison is not paltry

[christx30]

23. Compared to the forever of the death he caused,

yes, 25 years is paltry. Especially if he could get parole in as little as 13 years.

[Judi Lynn]

24. Thanks for the story. What a shame this couldn't have been prevented. n/t