Steve Beshear on Crime Democrat

Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals

Beshear supports the following principles concerning crime:
• Impose “truth in sentencing” for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
• Expand funding for community policing programs.
• Support the use of “boot camps” as alternative sentencing for adult first-time felons.
• Deport all permanent resident aliens convicted of a felony.

Limit death penalty appeals; impose it for drug traffickers

Beshear supports the following principles concerning crime:
• Limit the number of appeals allowed to inmates on death row.
• Prosecute youths accused of murder as adults.
• Impose capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers.