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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60056)2/6/2005 10:02:51 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Mq,

Re: There's something to be said for how Saudi Arabia handles crime.

Saudi Arabia has a public beheading nearly every week. Somehow, I don't feel that they quite have the answer...

I'm more inclined toward the non-lethal approach of Singapore, or of the EU.

I suppose I'm in the minority here in the U.S. But I had a friend who turned me around on the issue of capital punishment in 2001, even before the Republican govenor of Illinois set up a commission which discovered that there were many men on Illinois' death row who simply hadn't been tried fairly.

The U.S. Constitution specifically prohibited the federal government from engaging in murder to punish criminals. I believe we were a better nation then...
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