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You treat The Green Mile as if it's a humanist milestone on the order of To Kill a Mockingbird . But it has been more than a third of a century since Mockingbird 's Great White Father and that shambling, saintly black martyr who pays for the sex crimes of white men--and in-between came the civil-rights movement.
The United States inherited English common law, which made adultery, as well as fornication (sex between unmarried people) and sodomy (oral and anal sex), punishable crimes.
In fact, the bill is a failure: The three-strikes law clogs the courts and fills prisons with older inmates unlikely to commit serious crimes again; cities will go broke paying for the "100,000 new cops" when federal seed money runs out; and the assault-weapons ban has too many loopholes.
Article II, Section 4 allows for the president's removal if the Senate convicts him of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
(Note: The online version of USAT 's story links to: "Discussion: Does media coverage of shooting sprees lead to copycat crimes?"