#crime-and-punishment

#crime-and-punishment

McLoughlin, the Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company's fort in Vancouver, Wash., receives more attention than any other figure. Long does a good job in revealing McLoughlin's personality, his reactions to crimes, and his advocation of crime penalties. Parts of this information will be new to many readers. Similarly, the author's treatment of the murders of the Whitmans and the later hanging of five American Indians for that crime also includes material fresh to most readers.

"He is a hollow vessel, something less than human. A body without empathy, without remorse," Mr Mortenson said, describing the impact of the brutal stabbings.

David Kaczynski wrote to his brother Ted, the Unabomber, expressing his moral obligation to stop the violence, but was met with Ted's refusals and anger.