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Old October 4, 2005, 02:22 PM   #21
SIGSHR
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After the Civil War, Congress established the Federal Court for the Indian
Territory (Oklahoma) under the "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker, and appeals to
the Supreme Court were disallowed. The result, if you were a bad guy and you were tried in Judge Parker's court, found guilty, and sentenced to hang, you hung, unless you recieved Executive Clemency, something hard to come by back then since 1. It had to be paid for 2. Back then, it seen as being
Soft on Crime. And I wonder how much of the crime surge of the 1960s and
70s was due to the Warren Court's overexpansion of the rights of criminals.
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