Mark Wahlberg should not be pardoned

In April,1988, Mark Wahlberg, 16, set upon a Vietnamese immigrant named Thanh Lam, and, with a wooden stick, beat him so severely that Lam fell to the ground, unconscious. Later that night, according to contemporaneous accounts, Wahlberg found another Asian man, Hoa Trinh, and, calling him a "gook" and "slant-eye," smashed him in the face. Trinh lost sight in his right eye. Wahlberg was arrested, convicted, and spent 45 days in jail, an experience that hardened him for the rest of his younger da...