A pimp beats a teenage hooker until she's bleeding from the ears, yet his sentence is too stiff? Fuck this guy, bury him under the prison.

Sure the drone ranger Obama has obliterated a few hundred brown civilians over seas, but he's really super sorry about Treyvon, srrrsly.

If one wants to understand the origin of "truth in sentencing" laws, one need look no further than a man with a 100 year sentence being eligible for parole in 36. In this context, a 300 year sentence actually makes sense.