Reader Response

January, 1991

Caller: My question is to Mr. Bennett. Why build prisons? Get tough like Saudi Arabia. Behead the damned drug dealers. We're just too damn soft.Drug policy Director William Bennett: It's actually—there's an interesting point. One of the things that I think is a problem is that we are not doing enough that is morally proportional to the nature of the offense. I mean, what the caller suggests is morally plausible. Legally, it's difficult, but say—Larry king: Behead?Bennett: Yeah. Morally, I don't...