Let The Punishment Fit The Crime: Senate Bill 1437

July, 1978

Playboy forum: the lawThere is certainly much to be said for the reform of the criminal laws. A great deal more than that already has been said, for a good many years, without substantial or beneficial effect. There has been effect--New York State all but revived drawing and quartering and being pulled to death by horses, in Nelson Rockefeller's rabble-rousing, crowd-pleasing, showboating, grandstanding campaign-motivated motion that restoring the death penalty might deter heroin trafficking--bu...