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Fascinating juve crime and modern parole story from Georgia

By Douglas A. Berman

The front-page of CNN.com has this interesting story of crime and punishment from Georgia that implicates a lot of modern issues about sentencing law, policy and practice. The piece is headlined "Family uses killer's letters to keep him behind bars," and here is how it gets started: Billy Ray White vowed 20 years ago that when he got out of prison, he would track down the relatives of the man he'd murdered and subject them to gruesome deaths.   In a handwritten letter to J.D. Hall's daughter, the convicted killer promised to carve her up like a turkey and make her head into a flower pot. In another letter to Hall's son, he said he would put him through a meat grinder and force his relatives to eat him.... The letters were from "Charles Manson," but White has admitted to writing them...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).