Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Aljazeera criticizes 3-strike laws

Nothing, finally, surprises me about prisons and prison law.  But reading today a long story in Aljazeera:  Power & People, I discovered that people in the middle east find our laws excessive.  Whew!

 In Saudi Arabia, they still cut off the hands of thieves.  They hold public beheadings.  But still, the authors of this article find that the U.S. 3-strike law, requiring life imprisonment for a third crime, to be excessive.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/10/2012103164254329343.html

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