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Crime and punishment

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Herbert Johnson

Published: July 19, 2009

As we see and hear our national representatives argue back and forth about their responsibilities to approve or disapprove judicial questions, we long for some sanity.

Parole boards nullify sentences that fit the crimes and their punishments. Outgoing office holders grant pardons to hundreds of capital and other crimes. In these de-United States we house, clothe and fee mass murderers for years and years and then wine and dine them before their 13 or so seconds of painless death.

How can we reconcile these painless deaths to a judge's sentence of a helpless housewife to starvation and no water for 13 days of agony?

Whatever happened to constitutional punishments to fit the crime? Whatever happened to those who now worry about Muslim prisoners of war; none of whom were put to death by starvation or lack of water? Are those Geneva Conference guidelines protecting American prisoners of war anywhere in this world?

Herbert Johnson Sebring

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