Hi, Ed, well, I was shocked to read in your paper that the gangs are still threatening to kill witnesses. Jeeze, I thought with Shirley Turner’s bill abolishing the death penalty in New Jersey, these gangs would follow suit, like soaping up car windows, or maybe toilet-papering trees, or sticking toothpicks in the doorbells of potential witnesses. Go figure! I guess the threat of life in prison isn’t such a deterrent after all.

Skeptic

At least abolishing the death penalty removes the badass mystique of “death row.” What kind of sissy wants to kill somebody if it will only grant him the not-nearly-as-tattooable status of “imprisoned for life.”—Ed. Note