Letter: How could Blago and Rudd get same sentence?

After reading Tuesday's Daily Herald regarding the guilty verdict of Donnie Rudd for killing his wife, I am totally baffled by our judicial system. Mr. Rudd's sentence was a minimum of 14 years. When I read the "14 year sentence" it jarred my memory - didn't our former governor Rod Blagojevich receive the same sentence for intent to sell Obama's senate seat?

I don't understand the vast disparity in the crimes leading to the same verdict. There is something drastically wrong with our laws when someone can kill another human being and get the same sentence as someone who was trying make an illegal profit selling a senate seat.

Judith Reed

Mt. Prospect