What do you think about the state's recent decision to release some prison inmates - most convicted of rape and murder in the 1970s - beginning Oct. 29, due to a decades-old law which defined the sentence term of "life in prison" as only 80 years?

I don't like it, but the courts have ruled on the law, and the state should adhere to it.

I think it's OK. If they paid their dues, they should be released if the law allows for it.

I don't too much care either way.

I think it is ridiculous. "Life in prison" for them should be just that.

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Poll Opened: October 19, 2009

Poll Closes: October 22, 2009

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