So the Reader would think that very few crimes can possibly fit that description. Think again. There are 20 separate crimes listed, eight of which are drug-related, as in possession of dangerous drugs, their importation, cultivation, or unlawful prescription, and maintenance of drug dens. How these activities can be considered wicked, vicious, atrocious and perverse, and therefore “heinous,†is kind of a stretch. The other 12 include treason, planting evidence, and car theft (with murder), which again stretches the imagination to fit the description of heinous.
Since 40 percent of these heinous crimes are drug-related, it looks like the war on drugs weighs heavily on the minds of our congressmen, as it does on our President. But why put it in the law when the police and “vigilantes†are already practicing the death penalty with impunity, sans a judge’s imprimatur? Strange.
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