Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Kathy:
Thanks, you got where I was coming from. :)
I have often wondered the same thing, why do they wait until a week
before the executions to start yelling for them not to happen. Maybe
they are working on it all along but nothing is said about it. But I
doubt that. It seems to me that if they really didn't want someone
executed that they would start yelling the minute the sentence came
through.
Sue
>
> Well I'm Catholic, though non practicing. I have always believed in the
> DP myself. Yet I tend to think these pleas from the pope do get ignored
> mainly due to the fact they are so common for him to do them. One takes
> notice of something that rarely happens, but when something is normal we
> tend to ignore it.
>
> One thing that has always bothered me, and I still don't have the answer
> for this is, the people who are pleading to stop the execution of
> someone, why do they wait so long? Why wait until the last minute to
> suddenly say, "oh my! We can't have him executed?" Isn't that a bit
> cruel on their part also?
>
> Case in point was the recent execution here in Virginia, why in the hell
> did they wait this long to do anything? Maybe due to the fact they
> really didn't care. It was just plain old politics at play IMHO.
>
> I saw the supposed outrage and cries of injustice, (funny no one tried
> to say he was innocent, just his delegates weren't told he was arrested,
> would them knowing make him suddenly innocent and his victim alive?) but
> all I could think of is, You folks knew three years after this man was
> convicted that he was in jail with the DP, why didn't you do anything
> then? Why wait until now, when the situation is completely out of your
> control? Perhaps due to the fact they knew he did kill his victim and
> they didn't really care at all but were just trying to make it look like
> they did attempt to stop the execution.
>
> The type of chest pounding and alleged outrage in cases like that
> disgusts me, it's not people actually trying to right a wrong, it's
> people just playing politics to me, if they had really cared they would
> have done something years ago and not waited until the last days to try
> to stop the execution.
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