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Decades of well-intentioned brainstorms like this one--legal, medical, procedural, political--have accumulated into one thoroughly screwed-up system. Any other government program that delivered 3% of what it promised--while costing millions of dollars more than the alternative--would be a scandal, but the death penalty is different...
Last Thursday, on a conference call with 70 county chairmen, a few people raised concerns about a recent spate of stories concerning a convicted rapist who, after Huckabee allegedly pressured the parole board on his behalf, was paroled and went on to rape and kill at least one...
No kidding. Huckabee's new prominence revived the wrenching story of Carol Sue Shields, a Missouri woman raped and murdered in 2000 by a former Arkansas inmate, Wayne Dumond. He died in prison before being charged with the murder of a second Missouri woman, Sara Andrasek. As Governor, Huckabee supported...
Huckabee's first few hours in the big time weren't exactly reassuring. When a man in Newton asked him about Dumond, Huckabee answered with an airy discourse on corrections policy that left the misleading impression that Dumond's parole was the Arkansas legislature's idea. That's not likely...
In 1991, for instance, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals of a Michigan man who had been sentenced to life without parole for possessing 672 grams of cocaine. In 1980, the high court let stand a 40-year sentence for possession and distribution of nine ounces of marijuana.