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The mantra of death penalty opponents for all of my adult life has been Blackstone’s ratio:\u00a0 “better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.”\u00a0 But what if one of the guilty allowed to escape is a murderer?\u00a0\u00a0 William Lee of the Chicago Tribune reports<\/a> that last month the posterboy for compassionate release, Steven “Mustafa” Hawthorne, was arrested for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.\u00a0 In 1984, Hawthorne was convicted of killing two people and sentenced to life-without-the-possibility-of parole (LWOP).\u00a0 Because he was 17-years-old at the time of the murders, Hawthorne was allowed to petition for re-sentencing\u00a0 after the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling in Miller v. Alabama<\/a>.\u00a0 In 2017, based upon findings that he had been rehabilitated, Hawthorne was released from prison. \u00a0 As noted<\/a> by Hans Bader in Liberty Unyielding, the sentencing reform group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, celebrated Hawthorne’s release noting that “there are\u00a0 too many people in Illinois serving long prison terms that don’t make communities safer.\u00a0 More of them need the same chance that Steven got.”<\/p>\n

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Because he was released in Chicago, as Hawthorne’s so-called rehabilitation began to unravel, he was allowed to remain in the community even after being arrested for gun possession in 2020.\u00a0 Soros-backed progressive DA Kim Fox was not going to lock up a black celebrity, released under a policy she vigorously supports,\u00a0 just because he was a convicted murderer in possession of a firearm (a serious felony in most states).\u00a0 Last January Hawthorne was arrested again for possession of five guns including a dreaded AR 15.\u00a0 The arrest occurred during a traffic stop.\u00a0 Progressives are demanding a new policy that prohibits traffic stops in Chicago, patterned on similar bans in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Oakland and Berkeley. \u00a0 In any event, District Attorney Fox again kept Hawthorne on the street.<\/p>\n

Then at 1:30 a.m. on April 16, Hawthorne walked into his ex-girlfriend’s home and executed her boyfriend as he slept.\u00a0 The girlfriend managed to run out to the street where Hawthorne chased her down shot her once, then pinned her to the ground and beat her with a pistol.\u00a0 He finally crushed her head with a large rock, all in front of witnesses including the girlfriend’s two daughters, 3 and 5.<\/p>\n

Compassion should always be a part of the criminal justice process.\u00a0 When the system was working effectively in the late 1990s, most first-time offenders got second chances and programs to put them on a different path.\u00a0 But if they re-offended, especially with a violent or serious crime, the system provided real consequences.\u00a0 Declining crime rates evidenced the worth of this policy.\u00a0 In the name of “social justice” these policies have been abandoned in most big cities and many blue states.\u00a0 The result is much more crime.<\/p>\n

In exchange for the compassion Illinois gave to Steven “Mustafa” Hawthorne, and District Attorney Kim Fox’s choice to put her idiotic social justice politics ahead of enforcing the law, even for a convicted double-murderer<\/em>, two more innocent people are dead and the lives of two young children are ruined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mantra of death penalty opponents for all of my adult life has been Blackstone’s ratio:\u00a0 “better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.”\u00a0 But what if one of the guilty allowed to escape is a murderer?\u00a0\u00a0 William Lee of the Chicago Tribune reports that last month the posterboy for compassionate release, Steven “Mustafa” Hawthorne, was arrested for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.\u00a0 In 1984, Hawthorne was convicted of killing two people and sentenced to life-without-the-possibility-of parole (LWOP).\u00a0 Because he was 17-years-old at the time of the murders, Hawthorne was allowed to petition for re-sentencing\u00a0 after the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling in Miller v. Alabama.\u00a0 In 2017, based upon findings that he had been rehabilitated, Hawthorne was released from prison. \u00a0 As noted by Hans Bader in Liberty Unyielding, the sentencing reform group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, celebrated Hawthorne’s release noting that “there are\u00a0 too many people in Illinois serving long prison terms that don’t make communities safer.\u00a0 More of them need the same chance that Steven got.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nNo Second Chances for Victims of Repeat Chicago Killer - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8917\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Second Chances for Victims of Repeat Chicago Killer - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The mantra of death penalty opponents for all of my adult life has been Blackstone’s ratio:\u00a0 “better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.”\u00a0 But what if one of the guilty allowed to escape is a murderer?\u00a0\u00a0 William Lee of the Chicago Tribune reports that last month the posterboy for compassionate release, Steven “Mustafa” Hawthorne, was arrested for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.\u00a0 In 1984, Hawthorne was convicted of killing two people and sentenced to life-without-the-possibility-of parole (LWOP).\u00a0 Because he was 17-years-old at the time of the murders, Hawthorne was allowed to petition for re-sentencing\u00a0 after the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling in Miller v. 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