Like most Australian governments, the odds of the Victorian government listening to mere people rather than their ideology is remote.
To: naturalman1975
California has the death penalty but more convicts die from old age than by injection. If a country or state is going to have the death penalty, I wish they would enforce it. It may just deter crime like it’s supposed to do.
To: naturalman1975
“Mercy to criminals is cruelty to all.” I’m not certain who was the first to make this statement, but it has been repeated by many. I’m not only for the death penalty, but I would like to see it expanded to include pedophiles and child rape.
3 posted on
10/01/2009 5:15:00 PM PDT by
Nosterrex
To: naturalman1975
"He's done it before and he'll do it again."
Criminal penalties are not for preventing future crimes. They're for punishing past crimes, i.e. balancing the scales of justice, squaring the books, etc.
The question then becomes how to balance the scales when a life is taken by murder. What do we put in the other side of the scale? Our punishment for murder tells how highly we value life.
4 posted on
10/01/2009 5:20:26 PM PDT by
LearsFool
("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
To: naturalman1975
Is this another Polanski story?
5 posted on
10/01/2009 7:30:57 PM PDT by
depressed in 06
(ZerOcare: Bureaucratic best practices equals death panels.)
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