Punishment Fits Crime

Summary


A judge's order that a woman be served only bread and water the first three days of her 30-day jail sentence in Texas might not withstand legal scrutiny, but he deserves a pat on the back for trying to make the punishment fit the crime.

Dawn Sweeney was convicted of leaving two horses outside her home without food or shelter for four months. One of the starving horses had to be euthanized. The other was adopted.

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Punishment Fits Crime

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