Prisons | Prisons Should Punish Inmates

About the author: Rowland Nethaway is the senior editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, the newspaper of Waco, Texas.

The porno videotape of mass murderer Richard Speck taking drugs and living it up in prison makes a piercing argument for the death penalty.

Speck says aloud what many law-abiding Americans fear most about their prison systems.

‘‘If they only knew how much fun I was having in here, they would turn me loose,’’ Speck said. Actually, had they only known how much fun he was having in prison, a lot of people would have wanted to take...

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