Punishment Should Fit Crime of Murder

Allow me to attempt to answer Sharry Holland’s vintage whine in your July 15 article (“Killers’ Mother Questions Fairness of Life Sentences”), wherein she asks: “How many years do you have to spend repenting for a life you have taken inadvertently?”

Perhaps the correct amount of time is until the victim inadvertently comes alive again.

First-degree murder with special circumstances is hardly “heedless, inattentive or accidental,” which are dictionary meanings of inadvertent.

CHARLENE ARNOLD

Simi Valley