Barred for Life

And what about the victims? "Behind all the banner-waving for victims," the attorney combatively asserts, "is a wasteful and abusive set of 34 prisons in the state where prisoners are not given the tools to make themselves and society any better. Like prisoners, victims deserve a justice system that looks to reconcile and restore the human tragedy inherent in any murder. And yet from the moment of the crime, the wheels of justice don't serve either person."

It's not a great answer. But perhaps there is no perfect answer here. Carbone cares about his clients' freedom. Yet his clients, in killing others, have forever removed the possibility of life, of freedom, from their victims and their victims' families.

If you believe in revenge, it's a no-brainer: Killers should never walk the streets again. If you believe in rehabilitation, it's a lot harder. You want to agree with Carbone, yet you don't want to dishonor the dead; you want to believe that souls can indeed be remade, but you don't want to get it wrong and release a predator onto the streets.

Charles Carbone, Esq., can be found atop the tightrope traversing the horns of that dilemma.