While the United States has a particularly bad record of
railroading people into guilty verdicts, the current
propensity for keeping admited multiple murderers around for
decades, and all too often setting them free eventually, is
extremely disturbing. Facts like these are fodder for great
crime fiction.
Patrick King
--- jacquesdebierue <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Patrick, we can't change the laws by discussing
them
> in this list. We
> discuss criminous fiction and the laws are what
they
> are. And the laws
> of any culture come from older codes, call
them
> people's rights or
> call them customary codes of conduct which end
up
> being enforced. All
> societies have had them since times immemorial.
Of
> course, different
> cultures have evolved different codes, but
at
> bottom, they're not that
> different.
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
>
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