Depravity scale: Weighing evil that men do

"For judges and juries, determining how depraved a crime is can be notoriously tricky and often clouded by gut-wrenching emotions.

But the task could soon become much more scientific, thanks to a local expert who is creating a first-of-its-kind scale to standardize what courts mean when they label crimes as depraved, heinous or evil.

"When is a murder like many other murders and when is a murder truly the worst of the worst?" said Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist at the NYU School of Medicine, who is developing a "depravity scale."

For example, which of the following two crimes warrants a stiffer sentence:
A father tortures and beats his underweight 7-year-old daughter to death for taking yogurt without permission, following years of abuse, or:

A man binds the face of a talented 24-year-old woman with packing tape, rapes and strangles her, then dumps her defiled, naked body on a desolate street.
Juries in New York may soon have to struggle with these gruesome crimes against Nixzmary Brown and Imette St. Guillen.

Though Welner's scale may not be in place in time to give these particular juries guidance, it's something that's sorely needed to establish consistent and fair punishments for the worst of crimes, legal experts and law enforcement officials around the country said."
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This is an easy one. ANY judge, or jury that doesn't send EITHER of the above scumdogs to the gallows should walk the last mile themselves. Have we really reached the point where years of molly-coddling minority criminals has left us with a misunderstanding of what 'fry-the-bastard' means?

Course not. Liberals probably DO need a primer so that they might point to a textbook and say one from column A, and one from column B, in order to sate their weepy rendition of "we shouldn't judge". Having it in black and white would take away the sleepless nights as Loons try to come to grips with punishing the underprivileged.