[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 15 (Wednesday, February 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H582]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    LEGISLATION MUST ENSURE THAT HEINOUS CRIMES RECEIVE APPROPRIATE 
                               PUNISHMENT

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, 20 years ago Larry Singleton picked up 
Mary Vincent. Singleton raped her, and to escape discovery, chopped off 
her hands and threw Mary into a ditch for her to bleed to death. Mary 
survived and helped convict this bum.
  Larry Singleton was out in 8 years, Congress. Yesterday Mary Vincent, 
in a courtroom with two metal hands, fingered Singleton once again, 
because, you see, 20 years later, Larry Singleton picked up Roxanne 
Hayes. He raped her, and to make sure he did not get caught, he 
executed her.
  Beam me up. Enough is enough. Eight years. We have victims screaming 
out from graves all over America, and Congress is coddling to 
criminals. It is time for Congress to look at the rights of the 
victims, not the murderers. It is time to legislate that those life 
sentence people who murder again do not get another life sentence. They 
get put to death.

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