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Hi Joan and Richard,
Richard does indeed point out some of the problems of LWOP, which is a dodge
used by many opponents of the death penalty. It is lazy thinking or more
accurately sloganeering to head off the heedless passion of those who demand
the death penalty. There is no rational argument for the death penalty. It
may actually increase murders but it does not deter them to the best of our
ability to understand. The victims' family and friends are ignored in
either case. Families in Oklahoma City and innumerable other cases have
begged for the life of the killers. Their voices are as little heeded as
those who cry out for vengeance.
The greatest problem with the death penalty is the fallibility of our very
faulty justice system which is designed for drama rather than truth. Our
fine governor, George Pataki, who proudly proclaims his reinstatement of the
death penalty once used the case in Illinois where two men were railroaded
in the rape/murder of a young girl to scream about the abominable and
unjustified delays in carrying out the death penalty. Prosecutors and
investigators have been indicted for the things prosecutors and
investigators often do. The killer as usual goes unpunished. Killers
usually do in this country.
>"Joan Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hello Sody,
>
>You make a valid point as to how merciful LWP really is. Also, a point
>about the goal of rehab when the individual will not be released or will be
>released many so very many years in the future. I don't have a hard and
>fast position on the DP. I find myself able to agree with it in some
>instances and not in others.
>
> Joan
Richard Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> How can you justify putting anyone in a cell for twenty five years?? I
>> see no sense in our present system of criminal justice. Prisons if you
>> must have them should be a sincere effort to reform the individual and
>> getting him back as a productive member of society. If that is not
>> possible than dispose of him so that he is no longer a burden on society.
>> I can't imagine anything more horrible that sentencing a young person (
>or
>> an old person either) to Life Without Parole, really Life Without Hope..
>On
>> one hand we talk of assisted suicide and euthanasia as a relief for such
>a
>> life and on the other condemn people to that very thing in the justice
>> system.
>> Someone suggested twenty five years for a thirteen year old. In jail
>until
>> thirty eight?? What kind of a person will he be and what kind of life
>will
>> he be able to lead??
>> I guess I am the Dr. Kevorkian of law and order.
>>
>> The dirty old Gandy Dancer
>>
>>
>>
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Best, Terry
"Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law" - The Devil's Dictionary
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