I am in partial agreement with you Thorn at the moment, as the full story to how the prison guard was killed has not been talked about. All I am saying is you must have strange laws for your prisons in the USA. Your President has the bare face cheek to go to China and condemn them for an inhuman prison record and is own is not that much better. I think the key words are Prison Guard, if it had been anyone else say a con man doing the last year of a ten year stretch fuck all would have been said. That in my post, reference these two men was revenge justice, not real justice, [take note thir and leo9] and the justice the prison authorities meted out was worse that a person would treat a dog. If the crime was so bad....yes they should have been executed. Come to think of it did Louisiana have the death penalty then in 1973, and if so why was it never used?
For the prison authorities to take the law into their own hands is a dangerous road to travel, because that is now stooping to the level of the prisoners themselves. I would also think that it is against the American constitution as said in the post, and that is not a human right of the prisoner I am talking about, it is the laws that Americans live by, well it was up until now. I doubt very much if there is a Judge anywhere in America that would condemn a man/woman to 40 years solitary confinement, because they know the next step is putting straw hats on and pulling rickshaws. I’ll bet though that they would be falling over themselves to give the sentences I have suggested in my OP.
Be well IAN 2411