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The Rhode Island effort is not a lone crusade. Citizens are increasingly taking up the environmental battle cry of NIMBY -- not in my backyard! -- and rallying to block former convicts from settling in their communities. Local groups are pressing state assemblies for tougher detention laws and parole conditions. When legislators...
Still, we shrink from the obvious inference: for a woman, home is, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place to be. Her worst enemies and potential killers are not strangers but lovers, husbands and those who claimed to love her once. Similarly, for every child like Polly Klaas who is killed...
As a liberal softy, I oppose the death penalty, but I'm not a sentimentalist about it. There are many other circumstances in which the state sanctions the death of its citizens for policy purposes. The decision to go to war is the most obvious example, but even the less...
Nobody could beat the "toughness" of the Californians, or so one might think. But in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, one legislator, who remained nameless in yesterday's Times article, is advocating "three strikes and you're dead." Now that guy's tough. Smart too, since he realizes that if...
No, I'm worried that criminals who are not deterred by these sentencing measures will become all the more violent, in a calculated move to evade arrest when facing life sentences without parole.