My, but this country is getting awfully biblical lately. Not that I'm particularly on the side of sex offenders ... but if you can demonstrate (by lack of offending and psychological testing, one assumes), that you are no longer an offender or particularly at risk of offense, you still have to register for the rest of your life? Even if the state agrees that you're no longer a threat?
And how does the government plan to cope with a state like Texas? Its legislature doesn't meet again until 2003; they received notice about the time the legislature disbanded and face a deadline that occurs before the legislature meets again.
I guess some crimes are so egregious that society has decreed that you must be punished for them until the end of your days. Even when society in your state has said no such thing.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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