Where is the justice?

I have no pity for Bernard Madoff as he probably deserved what he got. But what I don't understand is what about the killers, robbers, rapists and the like who get less sentences for far worse crimes, especially murder?

Is a human life worth that much less than paper money lost in this crime as fraud? Isn't the taking of a life "extraordinarily evil?" Isn't sticking a gun in someone's face and taking their money "extraordinarily evil?"

What makes something "extraordinarily evil?" What makes Madoff's crime so? I would think that our judges would look at crimes that involved killing someone or hurting someone as horrendous and give out sentences matching the crime, but that is not always the case. Killers and the criminals that hurt people leave our prisons far sooner than 150 years.

I have to look back at a television interview with one of the victims who invested $5 million in Madoff's scheme. Of course, this victim was very happy with the sentence of 150 years, as I would be. But does one have to look at the victims to smell large amounts of money invested and lost in the scheme to invoke such a long (life) sentence in prison to have justice?

As I said, I do not feel bad for Madoff but at the same time I have to look and ask where the justice is for the other victims of horrendous crimes?

Kenneth Labuda

Elgin