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    9 October 1997
    Los Angeles Times
    Ellie Nesler
    re: "Ellie Nesler Apologizes as She is Released",
            L.A. Times, October 2, 1997

    How is Nesler's crime different from that of Sirhan Sirhan? She executed a man still considered innocent by our justice system, and did so inside a courtroom. If she was insane, she should be treated (for life) in a mental facility. If she wasn't, she should be incarcerated (for life) in a prison.

    Given the indisputable facts, her scripted apology and Lungren's disingenuous condemnation of vigilante justice, not to mention the hero worship of Nesler by a bloodthirsty public, are absurd. We are not really a civilized society.

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