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To: mvpel
What are the benefits of killing a person in a drug heist, or for a wallet, or just for the thrill of it?

You'll have plenty of time to find out now that Ryan has granted the perps a chance at life that they denied their victims. Go pick their brains as they lounge around at taxpayer expense, getting three squares a day, free medical care, access to weight rooms, cable TV etc.

65 posted on 01/12/2003 8:29:32 PM PST by Kevin Curry
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To: Kevin Curry
What are the benefits of killing a person in a drug heist, or for a wallet, or just for the thrill of it?

Again there's that parallel drawn between killing perpetrated by the government in the name of the Almighty State and killing perpetrated by murderous criminals in the name of evil. First Barnacle, and now you too.

If you object to the prison conditions that murderers are subjected to, that's fine, but it's not germane to the question of whether or not they should be killed as the ultimate expression of government force.

You raise "taxpayer expense," but I think it's been fairly well established that providing due process in death penalty cases costs more than warehousing murderers for the rest of their lives.

Some might argue that they get too many costly appeals, but lack of due process, judicial abuses, and corner-cutting is exactly what scuttled the Illinois death penalty.

66 posted on 01/12/2003 9:45:10 PM PST by mvpel
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