Currently, someone who is caught with a stash of drugs to use for a month can spend longer in jail that a person who kills another person while driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This is wrong!We need a top-down review of all levels of crime and their punishments to assure more equitable penalties—more heinous crimes receive higher fines and longer sentences. Furthermore, we need to address payment to the victims for theft or property destruction.
The overturning of many death sentences lately by the use of DNA has shown the corruption present in some offices of prosecution. Prosecutors must be held criminally accountable for withholding information that could clear defendants. We should enact a moratorium on capital punishment until we can reform how it's used.
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