(January 13, 2017 at 8:22 am)A Theist Wrote:(January 13, 2017 at 7:24 am)Rhythm Wrote: I'm familiar with Bundy, I'm also familiar with the fact that we have capital punishment, you probably remember this about me, but I grew up in florida...I remember old sparky, lol.
OFC I can object all I want, and yeah, they'll axe the guy all the same. I'll keep objecting, not for his sake. Used to be that we could lawfully put a homosexual, or...lol..a witch.... to death...so, to me, reciting off what is and is not lawful doesn't mean much. Sometimes, we lawfully do shitty and downright idiotic things. There have always been those who prosaically rattle off comments similar to yours above as though they contained some insight into the subject.
They never have.
We're old enough, (at least I am, that is), to remember the events with Ted Bundy as they took place. I can still remember the news reports of his killing sprees and I can still remember watching him take his own defense at his trial on television. I can still remember watching the news when the judge told Bundy at his sentencing, what a waste of humanity and that he would have made a good lawyer but he (Bundy) went another way.
Come on, Ted Bundy was hardly put to death for being a witch or a homosexual. I wasn't giving any special insight to the subject. What I gave were the facts of his murder sprees, an indictment of facts that sent Bundy to Florida's electric chair. I would venture to say, aside from a few of us, that not very many members on this forum are old enough to remember the events of Bundy as they took place. Some may not even know who he was, and some may only have a vague knowledge of him from what they read. So, I gave some facts to give some background on what Bundy did.
Out of curiosity, if you were called upon to plead for the lives of the likes of Ted Bundy, Dylan Roof, Timothy McVeigh, John Wayne Gacy, etc...at their trials, what evidence would you give, or what would you say to convince a courtroom that their lives should be spared?
I'm not old enough for Ted Bundy, but I have watched many documentaries about him as well as an interview he gave while behind bars.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
