Funny too that nobody remembers the Willie Horton story was first put out there by the AlGore campaign, during the Dimocrat primary extravaganza.
Willie Horton murdered a young white college student who was working nights at a service station. After stabbing him, Horton stuffed his body in a dumpster behind the station. Horton was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Horton was staying in a half-way house intended as a temporary place for prisoners who were soon to be released. On June 6, 1986, he was released as part of a weekend furlough program but did not return.
On April 3, 1987 in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Horton twice raped a local woman after pistol-whipping, knifing, binding, and gagging her fiancé. He then stole the car belonging to the man he had assaulted. He was later shot and captured by Corporal Yusuf Muhammad (formerly named Joseph Bell) of the Prince George’s County Police Department after a pursuit. On October 20, Horton was sentenced in Maryland to two consecutive life terms plus 85 years. The sentencing judge, Vincent J. Femia, refused to return Horton to Massachusetts, saying, “I’m not prepared to take the chance that Mr. Horton might again be furloughed or otherwise released. This man should never draw a breath of free air again.