>>>For me its a red herring. The state should never kill .
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>>I agree with that...and I think more Americans are believing that each year.
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>I don't know about that. There is an anger level in this country that is just below the boiling point.
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>Here is the paradox I don't get. A death sentence essentially says you have done the most unforgivable thing you can do, which is take a human life. And for that we are going to kill you.
Seems pretty clear. Object lesson, punishment and prophylaxis - not to mention if done properly ( i.e in a very timely fashion) much cheaper than room and board forever.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
