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To: festus
"It would seem to me that a law that allows certain classes of people to be actively killed but didn't allow the killing of everyone would be a flaming violation of the equal protection clause."

Sounds like a good anti-capital punishment argument...
21 posted on 03/31/2005 6:56:12 PM PST by NJ_gent (Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
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To: NJ_gent

Well there is that bit that says to get capital punishment you have to commit a crime............


22 posted on 03/31/2005 7:27:14 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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