PAROLE: Board needs new blood

Maybe the governor should consider appointing seven new commissioners to the Parole Board.

Front page recently, two brothers granted parole after 32 years for murder.

Consider some of these facts: They burglarized a home, committed robbery, terrorized a house of women and children, shot one man in the leg and head and kidnapped another.

While fleeing on a high speed chase, shot at the police car chasing them. When finally tracked to another home, they shot at another officer and killed one officer with a 12 gauge shotgun.

The officer killed was a Navy veteran and 17 years on the job. He had a wife and two stepchildren. What has their life been like for the last 32 years? Just consider the financial aspect, loss of companionship and two children growing up with the loss of a stepfather. Their lives were changed forever.

Should we sorry for these two brothers, who were behind bars for 32 years? Maybe they were good prisoners and behaved well while being watched 24/7. Should this be a criteria for getting paroled?

The dead are just that, dead, they have no chance of changing their lives. So when you stone cold murder someone else, the same should apply to you, no change in your life behind bars.

I wonder if this parole board is of the same mind as some of the liberals who spout off about defunding the police, don’t prosecute criminals and having no bail, an equity thing.

I wonder how many of these commissioners has ever strapped on a gun belt and tried to protect innocent people? Time for them to go.

GEORGE SILVA

Coeur d’Alene