Michael Vick Released From Prison

Published by PETA Staff.
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Michael Vick

Michael Vick was released from prison early this morning after less than two years behind bars and is headed back to Hampton, Virginia, where he’ll serve the final two months of his sentence under house arrest.

In January, after a U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Vick’s dogfighting activities revealed that Vick had enjoyed placing family pets in the ring with the pit bulls he’d bred, raised, and trained to fight, PETA called on NFL Commissioner Goodell to require that Vick undergo a full psychological evaluation before any decisions were made about the future of his football career.

Until Michael Vick undergoes the rigorous psychiatric tests now available to determine his ability to experience remorse, there’s no way to establish whether he will reoffend. Someone who trained dogs to torture and kill one another for sport, who drowned and hanged dogs who wouldn’t fight, and who laughed while watching his own family dogs fight for their lives as they were maimed and finally killed does not deserve to be rewarded with a multimillion-dollar contract or be given the privilege to serve as a role model to millions of children. PETA will not take anything off the table when it comes to any team or league that may sign Michael Vick.

In the meantime, PETA has increased our efforts to get other athletes on board to speak out against dogfighting. Houston Rockets forward Ron Artest, mixed martial arts fighter Tito Ortiz, and world welterweight champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley, who shot an anti-dogfighting ad for PETA this week, have all spoken out against this cruel and illegal blood sport.

Written by Shawna Flavell

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