>>>I don't agree that allowing someone to suffer and die for fifty years in a 6x6 room is "more civilized".
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>>>>I agree with you Alan. A lifetime imprisonment is a better (and more civilized) punishment than a death sentence IMO.
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>>>>>Well. It's about time Mississippi became civilised.
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>>That the government gives itself an exemption that allows it to kill someone with impunity is uncivilised. Once it removes the perpetrator from society, that should be enough.
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>Dedicating public resources to the care and feeding of this person is removing him from society - it is awarding him a special, protected status.
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>He should be removed from the board.

We'll just have to agree to disagree. We could go on forever on this one so I'll just say, Capital punishment; Like Groucho sang, I'm agin it.