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  • 4 Decades After Shooting, Effort to Make Punishment Fit the Crime (Obama Disciple?)

    02/25/2008 11:33:18 AM PST · by Syncro · 12 replies · 162+ views
    The New York Times ^ | Feb 23, 2008 | Catrin Einhorn
    4 Decades After Shooting, Effort to Make Punishment Fit the Crime By CATRIN EINHORN Published: February 23, 2008 CHICAGO — What punishment should be imposed on a man who shot a police officer almost 40 years ago and fled to Canada, but went on to live an upstanding life as a husband and father who worked in a library?**snip** In 2004, he was arrested, but fought extradition. Last month he gave up that fight, saying he was inspired by the new political climate he saw in Chicago, symbolized, he said, by the support of Mayor Richard M. Daley and other...