Las Vegas Sun

April 15, 2024

Letter to the editor:

Equality doesn’t pass the killer test

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If all people are created equal, why is it that when a famous person is killed — Robert Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan, John Lennon by Mark David Chapman — the murderers are still incarcerated more than three decades while other killers of “ordinary” people can be set free after a few years? Equal justice my foot.

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