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RE: Death Penalty
August 8, 2009 at 2:54 am
Quote:The cost is in the legal system for doing the appeals. You see, it is preferable that the person executed actually be guilty

In an ideal world,indeed. Sadly,DNA technology has shown there are rather a lot of unsafe convictions within the US penal system. I think it would be naive to assume new technology has done any more than to scratch the surface.


My position on Capital punishment began to change when I was 12 and the case of Caryl Chessman.He was held on death row for 11 years and then executed. At the time I was horrified,and thought such a system cruel, unjust and barbaric. I still do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryl_Chessman

Capital Punishment was suspended in the UK in 1965,the suspension became abolition in 1969.

The last person executed in Australia was Ronald Ryan,in 1967. Capital punishment was finally abolished in ALL Australian states in 1984.
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Death Penalty - by Eilonnwy - March 23, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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RE: Death Penalty - by Kyuuketsuki - June 14, 2009 at 4:28 am
RE: Death Penalty - by bozo - June 14, 2009 at 6:45 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Kyuuketsuki - June 14, 2009 at 11:57 am
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RE: Death Penalty - by LEDO - June 13, 2009 at 9:06 pm
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RE: Death Penalty - by Giff - June 16, 2009 at 8:27 am
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RE: Death Penalty - by Kyuuketsuki - June 16, 2009 at 3:55 pm
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RE: Death Penalty - by Samson - June 16, 2009 at 7:43 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by LEDO - June 16, 2009 at 9:42 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by padraic - June 17, 2009 at 2:21 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Tiberius - June 17, 2009 at 2:41 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Edwardo Piet - June 17, 2009 at 8:21 am
RE: Death Penalty - by padraic - June 17, 2009 at 7:57 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Edwardo Piet - June 17, 2009 at 8:20 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by padraic - June 18, 2009 at 12:10 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Edwardo Piet - June 18, 2009 at 10:49 am
RE: Death Penalty - by RodneyEpicurus - July 29, 2009 at 8:31 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Meatball - August 2, 2009 at 4:41 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by chatpilot - August 3, 2009 at 3:06 pm
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RE: Death Penalty - by bozo - August 3, 2009 at 3:57 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Violet - August 7, 2009 at 10:52 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Minimalist - August 8, 2009 at 1:38 am
RE: Death Penalty - by padraic - August 8, 2009 at 2:54 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Minimalist - August 8, 2009 at 1:51 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Violet - August 8, 2009 at 8:43 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by theVOID - August 12, 2009 at 6:50 am
RE: Death Penalty - by bozo - August 12, 2009 at 7:33 am
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RE: Death Penalty - by dry land fish - August 12, 2009 at 9:09 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Minimalist - August 12, 2009 at 9:49 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Giff - August 25, 2009 at 4:11 am

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