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08 April 2008

THE REVOLVING DOOR

In 1978, Lawrence Singleton abducted and raped 15-year-old Mary Vincent, chopped off both her arms below the elbow with a hatchet and left her for dead in a culvert near Sacramento, California. She was found the next morning wandering near a roadway holding her arms above her head to restrict blood loss.

Singleton, sentenced to a mere 14 years in prison, terrified his victim from his prison cell with many letters to her lawyer threatening to hunt her down and kill her. And still he was paroled in 1986 after serving only eight years! Vincent, with artificial arms and fearing for her life once again, fled the state and went into hiding until 1998.

In Florida in 1997, Singleton murdered Roxanne Hayes, a 31-year-old mother of three. He died of cancer while on death row.

Why was a monster ever freed to hunt Mary Vincent and kill Roxanne Hayes? Shame on the legal scholars who try to justify such insanity.

But the U.S. isn’t alone in spectacular stupidity. Far from it. Most Western countries suffer from this seemingly viral Mad Law Disease. I’ve got files bursting with examples from all over the globe. Here’s but one from our neighbor to the north:

Conrad Brossard had a habit of killing people or trying to kill them whenever he wasn't locked up behind bars. His violent crime sprees, and his turns through the revolving door of Canada's penitentiaries, stretches for decades. ... In 1970, after escaping from a jail where he was serving seven years for assault, attempted rape and armed robbery, he killed a motorist who picked him up while hitchhiking. ... Mr. Brossard was sent to jail for life. A decade later, however, he was on an escorted outing and managed to escape. He kidnapped a motorist at gunpoint, stabbed him 13 times and shot him in the liver. The victim survived by playing dead, and later said, "I can't understand how he can be constantly let out on parole.” ... Mr. Brossard, returned to jail for a 23-year sentence, was out again on parole after 7 years, and was arrested at that point for another attempted murder and armed robbery. He returned to jail again for a life sentence. Then the parole board was told that a psychiatrist had rated his degree of dangerousness as "weak to moderate." Board members ruled that "the risk he presents is not unacceptable." As soon as he was released yet again, he raped and murdered a woman.
Excerpted from The Toronto Globe and Mail – 08 May 2002

“During the past two decades nearly half a million Americans have been murdered, and an additional 2.5 million have been wounded by gunfire – more casualties than the U.S. military has suffered in all the wars of the past 200 years." [Stabbings, clubbings, strangulations, etc. multiply those totals.] ... “At the moment there are about 100,000 murderers locked up in America’s prisons and perhaps 800,000 paroled murderers living free in American society. The United States has more murderers than doctors, more murderers than college professors. It has more murderers than police officers.”
Excerpted from The Atlantic Monthly – September 1997

An estimated 630,000 prison inmates are released each year and nearly two-thirds are re-arrested for a new crime within three years, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The U.S. has roughly 650,000 cops.

I am not advocating the Death Penalty – I want no part of that debate. Simply keep a predatory killer in a cage as long as the victim remains dead – to protect the rest of us. I made a similar argument in Newsletter 12 February 2008 > Hall of Shame – Idiot Lawyer & Idiot Shrink Awards.

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