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To: Indy Pendance
So if you kill someone who is 61 1/2, you may not be eligible for the death penalty, but if you kill someone who is 62, you are. Okay.
3 posted on 02/21/2003 2:56:36 PM PST by ambrose
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To: ambrose
{So if you kill someone who is 61 1/2, you may not be eligible for the death penalty, but if you kill someone who is 62, you are. Okay. }

This is the rational behind hate crime laws. Some victims are more valuable than others.
6 posted on 02/21/2003 3:12:54 PM PST by Kuksool (Fight The Axis of Evil: ACLU, NEA, & NOW)
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