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Oct 30, 2001, 10:51pm

If I may make a point. Sounds cold-hearted, but since it's my taxpaying
dollars going to keeping these killers fed and clothed, I say kill em off.
Big I digress. On a more less-selfish point, when you commit a crime that
is the taking of another human life (or more), I think the old saying "an
eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" applies.
--
SW Chris
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[View Quote] As far as prisons, the courts, and the death penalty goes... the European
Union has, as a body, unanimously condemned the death penalty as a
punishment for any sort of crime. They seem to have trouble understanding
why we here in the United States have no trouble with keeping the death
penalty as a punishment. To their way of thinking, we're supposed to be one
of the more advanced-thinking countries, and yet we continue to perpetuate
what they consider a backward mentality. Our use of the death penalty puts
us on a list of countries that includes Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, etc.
Is that the sort of company we wish to keep? *shrugs* Russia is currently
at the top of the list of countries that routinely use the death penalty,
the sheer numbers of prisoners killed there is outrageous, and yet our own
numbers of prisoners, our increasing numbers of prisons, and our use of the
death penalty will shortly rival theirs. Has this method of dealing with
crime and criminals been very effective? I'm not certain it has, and I have
no idea what method would work better, but it seems to me that what we're
currently doing isn't going to lead us into a world where we can "all just
get along."

Áine

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