"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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Why didn't they hang Charlie Manson?

Big difference, Charlie's never going to leave jail alive. AFAIK, he did
receive the death penalty, the Supreme Court declared the death penalty
unconstitutional, threw out the penalty. BTW, he would have gotten the
chair, IIRC.
John Cairns
"John Cairns" wrote in message
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"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