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Creativity
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Yes..true to the American way..
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Take this example.
A man walks into a store with a 12 gauge, shoots the shopkeeper in the side of the cranium at zero distance with both barrels, killing him instantly. Picks up a packet of cigarettes and walks to the door having been witnessed by 10 upstanding citizens including the mayor and the chief of police. (assume for a minute they are not corrupt.) This is all caught on camera from multiple angles.
He is arrested at the door and taken to jail where he freely admits the crime in front of his lawyer.
Should this man get the chair?
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Jun 26th, 2001 08:19 PM |
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Ushgarak
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No
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"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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Jun 27th, 2001 12:45 AM |
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queeq
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What would that solve?
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Jun 27th, 2001 12:52 AM |
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keokiswahine
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closure.
pays his dues for the life taken.
one less for the taxpayer to support in luxury, while the innocent impoverished homeless starve on the street.
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Jun 27th, 2001 08:34 AM |
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Edna Witch
Magic
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He committed the crime yes so he should be punnished. But we cannot play god and say when he should die. It just isn't right!
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"This Party's Over" -Mace Windu, epII
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Jun 27th, 2001 05:30 PM |
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Ushgarak
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Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
You take his life and I dislike you just as much as him. The idea that taking someone's life could solve anything is abhorrent. It won't give true closure; it will only give revenge, which is no basis for justice. Saying a life for a life is dues is just bas bad as murder; his dues is to be removed from society, not to be killed by people thinking they are morally superior! And the financial issue is a complete red herring. Not only would it be more expensive to kill him, not only are the sums of money involved in the tiny fraction of death sentendce negiligible, but to say we should kill him simply to save money is utterly wrong! You pay for prisons; it is one of the costs of justice. You don't discard that route just to make you feel better.
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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Jun 28th, 2001 12:16 AM |
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queeq
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What was that saying again? "We kill to show that killing is wrong"?
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Jun 28th, 2001 01:02 AM |
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keokiswahine
Confusion
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YUP 
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Jun 28th, 2001 10:05 AM |
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finti
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If you kill someone and it`s not self defence you dont earn the right to live. Why should they be locked up in a cell and be a burdon to tax payer. I say fry them, next case please.
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Jun 28th, 2001 11:47 AM |
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queeq
Chaos
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I certainly hope you don't get wrongly accused someday and get that sentence you just issued.
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Jun 28th, 2001 07:50 PM |
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