* I wonder if former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will accept his share of responsibility for the murder of four police officers in Washington state, who were gunned down by one of the many violent criminals whose sentence he commuted out of a misplaced sense of sympathy (“Freed To Kill,” Dec. 1).
Those who loved them have been dealt life sentences of misery and pain. How many more people must die before we pursue justice?
Oren M. Spiegler
Upper Saint Clair, Pa.
* For the GOP, the party of “Willie Horton” political-attack ads, this shooting is the coup de grace for yet another ultraconservative presidential aspirant.
Huckabee’s political career is over.
Meanwhile, law-enforcement agencies throughout America seethe with anger at his placing the blame on the “failure of the justice system,” instead of where it absolutely belongs: squarely on himself.
D. Duane Wall II
Cambria, Calif.
* This tragedy shows the idiocy of executive pardons. The practice has always seemed like a throwback to the absolute rule of kings.
Let the court system, which is intimately involved in each case, decide the sentence. Politicians, keep your noses out of it.
Wayne Olson
Suffern