To the Editor of The Star:
Now there is another brutal murder as a runner-up to the Baniszewski savagery. Liberals and left wingers try to excuse these criminals on the ground that society is to blame. Sympathy goes to the murderer instead of to the victim. The argument is bad. Even if other people are also to blame, the criminal is not thereby exonerated.
Nor is it true that society as a whole is responsible. The people who are responsible for these savage murders and the sharply rising crime rate are the voters, the legislators, the juries, and the judges who oppose capital punishment. Too few criminals are executed. Life sentences turn out to be seven years. Then the paroled and rehabilitated criminal returns to crime.
To reduce the crime rate and make our streets and homes safer, the voters should turn out the liberals, and increase the swiftness, the certainty, and the severity of punishment. What is needed is a sense of justice.
Gordon H. Clark
345 Buckingham Drive
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