Fraser didn’t get second chance

Re: Niagara man sentenced to life in prison released from custody, May 16

Alexander Fraser was abducted, beaten, bound with duct tape and thrown from a bridge into the Welland River. His body was found floating three months later. Thomas Nagy was convicted of second-degree murder in 2017 and sentenced to life in prison but is now out due to new legal developments.

Do you notice how our justice system plays games when it comes to taking someone’s life? The courts will come up with several degrees of killing someone — first-degree murder, seconddegree murder, manslaughter, etc.

Thanks to legal jargon or the parole board, most murderers obtain a “get out of jail free card.”

Unfortunately, there are no degrees of being dead. Once you are dead, that’s it, you never get a second chance to come back.

If this case doesn’t deserve a lifetime in jail with no parole, then the courts have no more value for Fraser’s life than those who killed him do.

Lou Cesar St. Catharines