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On October 20, 1987, indignant Maryland judge Vincent Femina tried and sentenced the convicted Massachusetts murderer Willie Horton to two consecutive life terms plus 85 years for crimes committed in Maryland, including assault, armed robbery, and rape.
Horton pleaded with Judge Femina to send him back to Massachusetts where he could serve out the remainder of his life sentence for the brutal murder of a teenage boy.
At the time, technocratic Massachusetts Governor Dukakis was releasing violent criminals for weekend furloughs “as an experiment” in case the overcrowded prisons might someday release hundreds of criminals back into society. On one particular Friday, Horton was furloughed, fled to Maryland, and tortured a young Maryland couple, telling them, “I like this life. I choose this life.”
Judge Femia refused to return Horton to Massachusetts, stating, "I'm not prepared to take the chance that Mr. Horton might again be furloughed or otherwise released. This man should never draw a breath of free air again."
Horton continues to rot away in a Maryland maximum security prison.
Against Utah Valley University for negligence and wrongful acts.
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“Old men declare war. Young men die for it.”
Herbert Hoover, Chairman of the American Relief Administration mission to Europe and later post-revolutionary Russia after World War I, which fed millions of starving war survivors.
