PhDeac
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It won't. These people were sentenced under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which this New Yorker article describes as "surely one of the worst statutes ever passed by Congress and signed into law by a President." Should people who started two fires on their own property, fires that spread onto federal scrubland and burned 160 acres, be sentenced under something passed in the wake of the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings?
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-destruction-of-defendants-rights
They burned 160 acres of public land? That's kind of a big deal.