08-03-2006, 07:15 AM
Quote:Doc! Please stop making these Death Penalty threads!
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My problem with the "Some people just need killing." position, is who chooses and when do you stop? We could rewind the clock 2000 years and bring back all the good old Roman Empire persecutions to keep the masses cowed and under control.
Indeed Kandrathe.
Doc, we say you have to stop making these threads because you don't read anyway what we have to say about it.
If you give those cases you just mentioned, I think we can all agree that such a person does not deserve to live for numbers of reason. I even would agree with the let's call it euthanasia of this Andrea Yates.
The fact is that there is not just those single cases. If we would always have complete truth, 100 % security that someone is guilty or innocent, sane or insane etc. this would be far more easy.....but we don't. And I know the bad feeling it gives you (a person) when you see such a sadist person commit a hideous crime, and is not sentenced to death. But we all know that there are many innocent people on death row, and already put to death. We also know that in a lot of countries people get a lable, so that they can be put away in some mental institute or prison (while actually they are just political opponents). Your country uses the term terrorist for that, and some years ago communist, and before that negroes.
If there is one thing worse than terrible crimes commited by people, and because of law and being a civilized country they cannot have their rightfull punishment, and that is a government that can decide this to easily...and you know it will happen.