I am determined that Alabama will become a leader among states in providing technology for our students. Next, we will raise the stakes on those who endanger the lives of our school children. I will support the speaker and Rep. Howard Hawk's legislation to make school bomb threats a felony. If you even so much as threaten Alabama school children, you will face up to 10 years in prison. Finally, we will put video cameras and character education in our schools and take violence out.
Parents are concerned about the rising tide of school violence.
As a parent and as governor, I am committed to providing the safest school environment possible. We are going to put civility, common courtesy and good old-fashioned Alabama values into our schools, and this is where we will start. The families of murder victims must relive their tragedies year after year after year as endless, senseless and needless appeals clog our court systems. Justice delayed is justice denied. And justice takes too long in death-penalty cases.