What a shocker that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who came into office through the largess of his corporate backers, appointed a member of the Chicago School Board who is allegedly profiting from their position! Why shouldn’t that person do so? The mayor’s corporate backers profit from every public school he closes and every charter school that is opened. The corruption of the system begins and ends with business/corporate people having any say whatsoever in the education of children of Chicago. It is a form of child abuse that must stop.Edward D. Juillard, Morgan ParkLETTERSFew killers get death penalty
Your excellent editorial on the death penalty focused on the probability that a flawed criminal justice system will allow the conviction and execution of innocents, but those enamored with the notion of an-eye-for-an-eye should be even more exercised at the number of killers who escape death by perfectly legal means: mob hit men who make life saving deals with prosecutors; well-off murderers who can afford good lawyers; women, even mothers who kill their children; the list goes on. One Supreme Court justice, who approved of the death penalty in principle but came to believe it couldn’t be applied fairly, observed that the prospect of being convicted and actually put to death is akin to being struck by lightning on a golf course.Thomas W. Evans, Mundelein
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