The “Free” Poets, by Michael Monahan. The Phoenix, September.
Pearls from The Outlook for August 11, in regard to the Becker trial:
What can we learn from this story of trust betrayed, of dishonor in high places, and of a three years’ legal battle over a crime which demanded immediate retribution? Certainly the law did not come out unscathed from this controversy. It is a familiar story, but it will bear repetition until it is remedied—we are very much behind England in our administration of criminal law. The efficiency of punishment as a deterrent to crime is largely based upon the swiftness and sureness of justice rather than the severity of the penalty inflicted. Becker is dead; but who can deny that whatever social effect may result from his execution would have been trebled had his death come within a reasonable interval after the commission of his crime? The case is significant, not because it is an exception, but because it is typical of the process of American law.
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