It has become clear that our criminal justice system in many states has been broken by weak laws, weak prosecutors, and weak judges when it comes to violent criminals who have been adjudicated to be “insane.”
Florida police recently arrested Ronald Exantus for a parole violation and failure to register as a convicted felon. In 2015, Exantus broke into a Kentucky home and stabbed a six-year-old child in the head multiple times with a kitchen knife. He was given a pathetic 20-year sentence in 2018, and the ghouls at the Kentucky Department of Corrections chose to release him after eight years, against the recommendation of the parole board. The department answers to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, who wants to run for president in 2018.
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This problem is bigger than Beshear, though he must not be allowed to escape scrutiny here. Exantus broke into a home and murdered a child as he slept, and was only originally given a 20-year sentence. There is no world where 20 years in jail is enough for stabbing a child in the head multiple times. There is no “context” you can add that makes that a sufficient punishment. But Exantus’s lawyers were able to convince a court that he was criminally insane, thus he avoided serious punishment and was set free just a decade after he brutally murdered a child.
This is not sustainable. If Exantus can’t serve any jail time because he is too “insane” to know that breaking into homes to murder children is wrong, he should be locked in a padded room for the rest of his life. Exantus is a threat to public safety every day he is free. He has proven himself unfit to live in society. If he wasn’t arrested in Florida, after openly flouting his parole conditions, who is to say when he would snap again and slaughter another first-grader in the middle of the night?
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There are multiple examples of this, starting with the violent schizophrenic, roaming free despite 14 prior arrests, who murdered Iryna Zarutska on a light rail in North Carolina. Our criminal justice system affords privileges to violent criminals who are adjudicated to be “insane,” allowing them to roam free, no matter how big a threat they pose to the general public.
This flaw in the system must be the focus of every state and local politician in the country. People are being murdered by people who should never be allowed to roam free, all because cogs in the system have determined that they are too “insane” to know that their violent crimes are wrong. If murderers like Exantus can’t be made to spend the rest of their lives in a jail cell, they must spend the rest of it in a mental institution. Anything less is a failure of justice and public safety.