RE: The Reglion of peace strikes yet again
May 23, 2013 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2013 at 5:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure, it adds another killing to the tally though, doesn't it? I've always thought that serial killers, for example, should be given credit for at least one more victim - themselves. In any case, reducing the re-offending rate by means of execution would work on any crime. Like tax evasion. So if that's why we're doing it, why not do it in the case of every crime? No, no, it's not about the rate of repeat offense, that's just a convenient point of diversion for something else.
My objections would probably derail the thread, sufficeth to say that I'm uncomfortable being complicit in a killing carried out at the behest of a fallible system - which is then called justice. Here in the states, we have a disturbing number of overturned sentences.
My objections would probably derail the thread, sufficeth to say that I'm uncomfortable being complicit in a killing carried out at the behest of a fallible system - which is then called justice. Here in the states, we have a disturbing number of overturned sentences.
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