Word: streleski
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...California, meanwhile, authorities may be forced to release from custody a prisoner they regard as a danger to society. In 1978 Theodore Streleski, who had spent 19 years unsuccessfully seeking a mathematics Ph.D. at Stanford University, bludgeoned to death his academic adviser; Streleski reportedly told authorities that the killing was a "political" act to protest Stanford's handling of graduate students. A jury convicted him of second-degree murder and the use of a deadly weapon, which then carried a maximum sentence of eight years. In four weeks Streleski, 47, will have served his full term, with time...
...problem: penal systems that too often free prisoners who seem obvious threats to society. But the two cases also illustrate how difficult solutions are. The parole system many New Yorkers are so eager to abandon could end up being replaced by one like the penal approach that governed the Streleski and White cases. In eleven states, including California, parole release has been abolished for most offenders in favor of a fixed, or "determinate," sentencing system. Under it, a judge must impose punishment from a narrow range of options set by the legislature or some administrative body, and an offender must...
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