Editorial: A mass killer walks free
by The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
May 01, 2018
2 minutes
On June 29, 1972, the United States Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision ruling capital punishment, as applied then, unconstitutional. Every state that wanted to use the death penalty would have to rewrite its laws to pass muster, and not until later did the court approve its restoration.
That was lucky timing for Carl Reimann. On the
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