Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir / With regard to the TIME Essay, "The Death Penalty: Cruel and Unusual?" [Jan. 24], the main reason for imprisonment is the protection of law-abiding citizens and numberless future victims. It follows that as long as a life sentence means only a few years in jail before parole, as...
Advocates of the death penalty argue that an Aikens -or a Manson or a Speck or an Eichmann-must be cut out of society. If these people are usually poor, friendless or from a minority group, it is because that is the sort of person who commits such crimes. Whatever...
Although Johnson obviously does not need to return to crime-his earnings are being held in a bank for him -he has been turned down for parole three times. But, like every other con, he figures he will make it at his next scheduled parole hearing in 1973. When he...
"Justice delayed is justice denied," runs an old legal maxim. Former Nevada Judge Clifford Jones, 59, might be inclined to disagree. For him, it seems that the slower the law moves, the better. Having long since stepped down from the bench to serve a couple of terms as Nevada'...
Even before the Kaufman decision, the statute had fallen into such disrepute that it had recently been allowed to expire-though not in the case of anyone already convicted. As of last week, 236 youths were under sentence as wayward, and 221 of them, including the three girls, were out...