What is the appropriate penalty for murdering two innocent people? Is 30 years in prison enough? Too much? What is the goal of punishing a murderer?
Is there anyone speaking for the victims? Or just the criminals?
During the 40 years convicted murderer James LeRoy Iverson watched from his prison cell window, he saw a field transform from a nesting ground for geese to a Walmart Supercenter site.
A week after being paroled as North Dakota's longest-serving inmate, the 70-year-old got his first look inside the Bismarck store.
"I'd never been to a Walmart before — they have oodles and oodles of stuff in there," said Iverson, dressed in a crisp new blue jeans and shirt purchased from the retail giant. "It took me three hours to walk all the way around that place."
Four decades after his 1969 conviction for strangling two women in Grand Forks, Iverson is among a growing number of senior parolees returning to communities nationwide.
The AP story sounds like boosterism for the put the criminals back on street movement. Read it here.
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