"Peter Wiley" wrote in message
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Actually I agree with you but the risk is that someone will let them
out again. Aren't you guys about to repeal the 'three strikes' law? I
know it's resulted in jailing a lot of people who are plain stupid
rather than dangerous but the idea, applied to people who commit crimes
of violence, has a lot of merit IMO. I recall seeing stats somewhere
(and we all know what they say about stats...) indicating the majority
of crime was committed by the same small group of the population.

PDW

In most states judges have some discretion sentencing defendants, which is a
good thing, after all, they are judges. We have a case here in Michigan
where a confessed serial killer is due to be released from a Texas jail-a
long convoluted story-and he has vowed to come back to these parts and do
some more killing. The authorities in these parts are scrambling to build
cases against him in Michigan, where if he goes to jail he'll never see the
light of day as a free man. The ironic thing is that Texas is a death
penalty state, has been for a while, this criminal's story is a good example
of the unfairness of capital punishment, if there ever was a good candidate
for killing, this is the guy, but he never got the death penalty.

http://www.detnews.com/2002/metro/02...a01-563796.htm

John Cairns