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Criminal activity and incarceration. On October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Horton and two accomplices robbed Joseph Fournier, a 17-year-old gas station attendant, and then fatally stabbed Fournier 19 times after he had cooperated by handing over all of the money in the cash register.
13 Μαΐ 2015 · An attack ad in 1988 reshaped criminal justice politics and the presidential election, fueling tough-on-crime rhetoric. Does being "Willie Horton'ed" still matter?
Horton’s crimes were nonetheless used against Dukakis first by Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and then by Lee Atwater, the political operative, and George H.W. Bush, the Republican nominee for president.
29 Φεβ 2020 · The Article ends with proposals for reform the commutation process to counter the fear of the “Willie Horton Effect” experienced by public officials involved in pardon decisions.
29 Ιουν 2016 · There is increasing evidence that, in general terms, much transnational lesson-drawing in criminal justice has been at the symbolic rather than the substantive level. Much of what has been ‘transferred’ has been terminology or rhetoric rather than the technologies and techniques of crime control.
26 Φεβ 2020 · Within roughly 90 days, he murdered two people, raped and kidnapped a third, and possibly murdered a fourth. McFadden proved to be Lieutenant Governor Mark Singel’s “Willie Horton.”
Although the decline of clemency in Massachusetts was part of a broader shift toward harsher punishment that occurred around 1980, memories of specific crimes—like those committed by Willie Horton—sufuse political rhetoric with such emotional force that those with authority to restore.
