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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 1577
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 11:13 am: | 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/national/16juries.html |
The Libertarian
Citizen
Username: Local_1_crew
Post Number: 615
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 7:51 pm: |
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we say killing is wrong so as a punishment we will kill you. the hypocracy is palpable. |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7946
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 9:51 am: |
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California has more than 500 inmates on death row. The average time from conviction to execution is over 15 years and apparently increasing. More death row inmates have died from natural causes than from execution.
Scott Peterson, will be joining the group shortly.
In theroy I don't have a problem with the death penalty. However, it tends to be handed out unevenly from county to county in a given state, there are a lot of people on death row who are innocent (see Illinois as an example) and it costs a small fortune to administer.
Give 'em life I say, give 'em life with no parole and let them rot in their cells until the day they die I say.
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themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1582
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 11:30 am: |
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Everyone can say "Scott Peterson should die." That case is a slam dunk. It's the weakest cases you have to justify in order to be a death penalty supporter. I think this is fascinating, though, that Jews were being kept of juries. It just shows the political nature and the divisiveness of the whole issue. |
Carrie Avery
Citizen
Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 219
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 2:34 pm: |
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Are you kidding? When did they mention the juries were Jewish? And, besides that, being on death row, is not the same as being in jail for life without parole. Killing is wrong, I agree., in the sense it is done with no probable cause. The death penalty is "punishment" and those that are waiting will wait a long time, but I am sure they know the differance between the two. They know that we are thinking that they deserve to have the same treatment. In a philosophical sense, for them to die, would be put them in a place where they might not be as comforted, if you believe in the after-life. If you don't, then perhaps they are doing them a benefit. Time will tell.Noone has come back and said there is a heaven or a hell..and those that have had minutes of death have only said they have seen a "light" , so your guess is as good as mine. |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1585
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 - 5:21 pm: |
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'When did they mention the juries were Jewish?'
Huh? Did you read the article?
"Case Stirs Fight on Jews, Juries and Execution"
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