When it's in California
by Bob Walsh
Jerry Brown is a former Jesuit seminarian and is a notorious and self-confessed liberal. He loves criminals and hates punishment (except possibly self-flagellation). Like most of his ilk he hates the idea of personal responsibility and labeling people as criminals. Unlike most people he has the power to do something about it.
Jerry has just launched into another orgy of prison sentence commutations. This time around it was a total of nine people, six of whom were murderers. Four of them, including one woman, were doing life without parole.
This begs an interesting question. Jerry said repeatedly (every time he was up for election) that, even though her was personally opposed to the death penalty, that he would enforce the death penalty. Strange, isn't it, that there hasn't been an execution in CA for ages and the population of death row now exceeds 700.
So, will Jerry commute all, or virtually all, of the death sentences on his way out the door? (He has commuted none thus far.) I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me one little bit.
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California Judge: I hereby sentence you to 20 years for manslaughter. Just kidding. Go on home and try to be nice.
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