Editorial: It's time to release Leslie Van Houten from prison (via latimesopinion )
after a parole board found her “suitable” for parole for the fourth time. The governor can appeal by asking state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta to petition the California Supreme Court to reverse the Court of Appeal.
The possibility of a parole is an incentive for convicted criminals to change. It is analogous to criminal punishment, which reminds would-be offenders of the line that separates acceptable and unacceptable conduct and imposes consequences for crossing it. Seeing people in prison reform yet be repeatedly denied parole, when reform and parole are built into their sentence, seems as unjust as seeing people repeatedly break laws without ever being held to account.
largely because her act was not a mere murder but in furtherance of Manson’s deranged plot to overthrow the government and society by spurring a race war and, somehow, emerging from it as a savior.Do we just let Sirhan Sirhan go?
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