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To: Graybeard58; hinckley buzzard; rellimpank; ex_desert_cowboy
My opinion is not "set in stone". To the contrary, I was very pro-death penalty just 3 or 4 years ago. However, this reality we live in forces us to make tough choices. We claim we want to protect the innocent and disadvantaged but the poor and minorities are at a distinct disadvantage in obtaining an adequate defense against any crime, including capitol crimes.

We are not "all men are created equal" when it comes to our legal system.

In just the last 25 years 80+ "criminals" on death row have been released because they were later found to be innocent of the crimes they were accused of. I can only assume that most of them were minorities and/or poor and had to rely on public "defenders".

A state-sponsored death penalty can give people an excuse for vigilantism. "Hey, this child molesting slime ball is going to be executed anyway, so let's just do it now!" I see this attitude nearly every day on FR. I want no part of it.

If the state executes an innocent the state becomes nothing more than a goverment-sponsored lynch mob. That makes us no better than Islam or the KKK. I want to believe that we are more civilized than the KKK, Muslims and Chinese.

Finally: grownups are allowed to think, reconsider and disagree without their "adulthood" being called into question, Hinckley Buzzard. Apology accepted.

24 posted on 03/25/2006 1:32:08 PM PST by manwiththehands (Islam is as Islam does. Islam is as Islam allows.)
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To: manwiththehands

When a thread is posted about child molestation, there are always calls for an immediate execution, not only execution but torture and a slow lingering death, with volunteers aplenty to do the deed. The man hasn't been tried yet but let's dispense with that little formality.

It's almost always a man but when a woman is the accused molestor we hear calls for pictures of her, before judgement is passed and an execution called for. If the woman is properly good looking, she will likely get a pass, with regrets being expressed that, "I never had a teacher that looked that good".

Child molestation is an awful crime and if molestors can't be cured and I believe they can't, they should be locked up forever to protect our children.


25 posted on 03/25/2006 1:47:42 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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