For the past decade, The Daily News has asked the governor to declare a moratorium on the death penalty and to ask the Legislature to study the problems and address them.
Judge Fine Doesn’t Make The Rules
Here’s a defense for the death penalty. It is the law. Judge Kevin Fine is a judge. It is his job to uphold the law, not make it.
When a state district judge takes it upon himself to decide what is constitutional and what is not, we have a dictatorship of the judiciary. Shall we raise our arms in a “Sieg Heil?” Or is it just that “some of us are more equal than others?” Is the law what he says it is? I think not.
A lot of good men and women have paid the ultimate price for our system of representative democracy. A judge like Judge Fine does no honor to their memory. Autocratic fiat from the bench is tyranny of the worst kind.
Larry Porter Galveston
Judge Blew It On Both Law And The Facts
In response to “Judge’s critics not arguing right facts” (The Daily News, March 9): I’m one of those pro-death penalty people. I only care about the facts, the law and the opinions.
People and judges with past addiction problems and current tattoos can be as thoughtful or stupid as anyone else.
With that said, the reality is that Judge Fine blew it on both the law and the facts.
I reviewed a few of those problems in the article.
The legal process, which will overturn Fine, will raise many more issues.
Dudley Sharp Houston
Where Did The Cemetery Flowers Go?
Where have all the flowers gone at Oleander Cemetery on Broadway?
After the first of the year, I put out several bunches of silk flowers at the cemetery on four grave sites.
A few weeks later, they were gone.
Upon further inspection, I found them with all the other bunches of flowers in the aisles of the cemetery in big piles. I replaced mine on the graves again.
I went by there recently and saw all the flower bunches gone again.
This time, they weren’t anywhere around the cemetery.
I also noticed there are no silk flowers anywhere.
My question is, where have all the flowers gone? Can anyone please answer this question?
Kathy Leonard Galveston
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