JustASC

Jonathan Pollard’s advocates tend to be on the Right, but the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, a reliably liberal group, has joined those asking President Bush to commute the convicted spy’s sentence:

Writes Rabbi David Saperstein:

…Mr. Pollard’s sentence is grossly disproportionate to sentences that others have received for comparable espionage offenses. Only those who spied for enemy nations have received life sentences. No other individual convicted of disclosing information to an ally has received such a sentence.

For more than 20 years, Mr. Pollard has remained in prison, including significant time spent in solitary confinement. In the interest of justice, it is now time to commute Mr. Pollard’s sentence to time served.

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