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Watching TV news reports of the wayward televangelist Jim Bakker entering and leaving the federal courthouse in Charlotte, N.C., in chains-restrained almost to a point of immobility-suggests to this viewer ”cruel and unusual punishment” of the accused.
It seems ironic, in a society that furloughs from prison hard-core rapists and murderers, that a meek televangelist accused only of diverting funds to his own use, but not yet proven guilty in a court of law, should be restrained in chains like a wild beast.
