| Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Whose Dear I wish to fill in a few points missed in Miss Hale's articles of late picturing Jesse Garcia as an misunderstood Garcia was tried and convicted of murder MORE THAN and further appeals have been Miss Hale implies that prejudice sat with the jury when she says that the most naive could believe it possible to in this a jury not of peers free of such She emphasizes Bowne received but fails to give equal emphasis to the fact that also received the death Miss Hale fails to report how Jesse Garcia flaunted the court during his trials by calling the judge and his general disrespect of the judicial I suggest that the readers of Miss Hale's articles recognize that the series is strongly and written to enlist sup port and sympathy for convicted murderer Jesse MIKE KIRKMAN does not avoid the commission of murder because he knows he may die if his act is fulfilled entirely No supporter of capital punishment can use the excuse that the death sentence prevents It is equally obvious that the solution to the problem of crime is not but it would be insane to allow the constant chronic offender to get scot PRISONS and penitentiaries should serve two to attempt to rehabilitate the criminal who shows a desire and an ability to return to and to keep all offenders from repeating their crimes by seeing that these persons are kept from When a murder is the m u r d e r e not deserves to be The death sentence removes the possibility of another like crime by the same Life which usually mean about 10 or 20 years behind permit recurrence of crime and require the though to pay for support and legal aid for the convicted When a dog has shown by its actions that it is a menace it is put to Wh an elephant runs rampant through a native causing death and it is hunt ed down and s Why is it that when men or women prove that cannot be useful members of society and that they are danger they must be pampered and and the public con I PITY Garcia as I pitied Caryl Chessman and the rest of the misguided individuals who have seen fit to steal and in general spit in the collective eye of I pity Amori-can freedom is based on not pity or This is no frantic flag-waving but America has always been founded on a basic premise Z protection of the rights of the We do not demand conformity to our but we demand protection of our right to these We also demand protection of our right to life and We have the right to deal with any individual who takes these rights away from us without good RICHARD BISHOP |
