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Old 08-08-2007, 06:39 PM
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Capital punishment, the solution to recidivism.
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Old 08-09-2007, 11:38 AM
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I have no such qualms about the DP. To me it is very simple. As members of society we all enter into a social "contract" with one another. When a member of the group breaks the contract, by doing something like what this waste of skin did, he forfeits the right to live in our society.

Separation from society, by mean of the DP, is the price he pays for his actions.


My qualms arise from working on two cases where the wrong guy was on the row. It happens and unlike the law of averages being ok in most cases, it isn't when we are talking about a human life.
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Old 08-09-2007, 11:04 AM
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It's amazing how many people are wrongfully convicted of crimes in a system which is designed to err on the side of letting the guilty go free as opposed to wrongfully convicting the innocent. I can't imagine the per centages of wrongful convictions where the system is far less liberal.

John Grisham's recent book An Innocent Man was pretty scary. This fellow (there were actually several mentioned) was failed by the whole system, not just ONE police dept., prosecutor,court, etc.
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Old 08-09-2007, 11:34 AM
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Yes I have very mixed feelings about the death penalty, but not for this bastard. The learned Judge just issued his ruling that Couey is not "retarded" (his words, not mine) and is therefore eligible to be removed from the gene pool.

I for one now hope that the Judge will follow the jury's recommendation (10-2) and put him on the row.

I know this thread will probably only last ten posts or so, but I had to get it off my chest.
I hope that the general popuation in prison will take care of it sooner than the government.
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Old 08-09-2007, 11:49 AM
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I hope that the general popuation in prison will take care of it sooner than the government.
If he is sentenced to death as the jury has recommended he will never be in gen pop he will go to a solitary cell on the row. Too bad because I agree with you.
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