It seems some people go into politics just before they go totally brain dead. This is the only explanation for the announced effort in New York State to increase the penalty for killers of children to life without parole from the current 25 years to life. "I hope that will play a deterrent," said a Brooklyn assistant district attorney, urging on the politicians. Where do we get these people? Let us see: Envision an enraged parent or some other custodian of a child (the sort of person the law has in mind) who is abusing his or her ward and,...