Show TOE LIFE SENTENCE of life Ufe imprisonment Is 15 HEN sentence it V V imposed upon murderers nowadays Isn't regarded as serious as in the old days when life meant life Ufe At each meeting of the state board of applicants who have served only a a afew pardons life life few lew years of what was intended tobe a sentence appear with petitions for pardon or parole The leniency of the state board In many cases has contributed largely to the present low estimate of the value of human human- life and release to the e expectation of early Next week the state board of pardons will have for consideration the application of one Trujillo who has served about six years of a alife alife life Ufe sentence for a particularly brutal mur- mur der in 1924 Going back to the scene of the crime atthe atthe at the time it it was committed the state board may well recall the extreme brutality which marked this particular homicide Returning to the courtroom at the time the jury returned its verdict of murder Inthe Inthe in inthe the first degree the state board can have no doubt as to the premeditation the motive an and the cold-blooded cold conduct of the mur- mur derer In less than seven years the state board is asked to forget these two pictures and to condone the murder by turning Trujillo loose It is unthinkable |