`3 strikes' challenge makes ballot. PENALTIES TOO HARSH & RACIST
Tuesday, June 8, 2004 at 01:34AM
TheSpook
California voters will have a
chance this fall to decide whether the ``third strike'' in the state's
"three strikes, you're out" law takes punishment too far by locking up
thousands of prisoners for decades for non-violent crimes such as
shoplifting and petty theft. In an attempt to do what the U.S. Supreme
Court would not, backers of reforming the nation's toughest sentencing
scheme this week succeeded in getting enough signatures to put a
measure on the November ballot that would soften the "three strikes"
law. [more]
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