>What do we do with them, then. We are running out of real estate to house all of our criminals. I do not know of any rehebilition (sp?) that has worked successfully for the ones that get the death penalty, the murderers.

Yeah well you can keep a criminal in prision for about 800 years for the same cost of executing one, so the realestate/finances argument doesn't wash. Unless of course we get rid of all the appeals processes and perhaps hire some illegal immigrants at $2.00 and hour to do all the legal work involed.


>>Justice too often is about revenge rather than anything else..
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>>The death penalty is babaric regardless of the form. In that sense the US is totally backward to any other western country.
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>>"Thy shall not kill"
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>>>--Oh there were quite a few comments. The dutch vice premier, Zalm had some comments on the barbaric way hussein was punnished.
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>>>Most comments contained emotional pretexts and biases regarding the use of the death penalty.
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>>>I read some commentary about how it 'returned to the 18th century'....as far as the death penalty goes, I think maybe we need a little more of that.
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>>>There's too much concern about making it 'peaceful and painless', to the point where so-called civil rights activists scream their heads off when a condemned man suffers 10 minutes of pain because they can't get the needle in correctly.
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>>>Kevin