“This is exactly the kind of revolving-door justice that puts criminals on the streets to victimize and kill again,” said Mary Beth Ruotolo-O’Neill, whose police-officer husband, Thomas Ruotolo, was murdered in 1984 investigating a stolen moped.
“Had he committed this crime today, he would have been given life without parole, which is the only appropriate sentence absent a death penalty,” said Linda Sledge, speaking of the man who killed her husband, Cecil Sledge, in 1980 during a car stop.
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