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To: KonKilo who wrote (18958)	5/17/2006 8:47:34 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) of 543328

GWB turned my wife and I off in one of the first debates, when he made the macabre little comment, with accompanying facial expression, about how the people he'd had executed as Texas governor were no longer a problem. Yes, that was a nice Freudian moment. The percentage of the public that identifies with him on this issue, if not the majority, is still really significant, and it's votes that count. Look at how many people seemed to passionately follow a sordid case that hardly concerned them like the Scott Peterson trial here in CA. Result - Schwarzenegger waited till the last nanosecond "because it was, oh, such a difficult decision" to pronounce on that Tookie execution we recently had. They say that exceptional cases make bad law, and capital punishment seems to illustrate this. In practice it is applied so sparingly, and with such a long delay after the crimes come to trial, that it hardly can be said to be any kind of effective deterrent. You get a good media circus out of it more than anything. My feeling is that there are unfortunately far more important problems facing the US going forward than a hot button issue like the death penalty.

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