Katha Pollitt wrote:
> It sounds like a lawyer claiming that his
> client is innocent, and anyway the victim deserved it.
What's wrong with that? If you consider the major charge against the Rosenbergs -- the charge which justified the death penalty -- was starting the Korean War and causing all the deaths that followed, one can only say it's quite true: they were innocent, and besides the victim deserved it.
And more -- while they were sentenced to death for starting the Korean War, the sentence was actually carried out because they refused to confess and join the war on communismn. Go back and read the headlines on Eisenhower's reasons for refusing to commute the death sentence.
Carrol