Three Strikes And We're Broke
September, 1994
Why is everyone so squeamish about killing criminals? The death penalty for habitual offenders is preferable to the "three strikes and you're out" fad that is now federal policy and is about to become the law in almost every state.The $28 billion crime bill that Congress recently passed mandates new and longer sentences, but that is just another way of coddling criminals by supporting them into old age, when they are no longer much of a threat to anyone. If the idea is to prevent these...
