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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (849053)4/10/2015 5:59:40 PM
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>> Personally I don't see any reason why we should keep the death penalty around. If the penalty cannot be administered swiftly and quietly (so that the convict doesn't become a Cause célèbre), then we shouldn't even bother.

Exactly. It is a joke.

The reality is that if you keep people on Death Row for 30 years and get them a new trial because of the most recent technology evolution, all of the witnesses will be dead or their memories will have faded. The death sentence degenerates to a 30 year or shorter stay on Death Row.

If you carried out executions the way we used to, it actually might serve as a deterrent. As it now stands it is just a mechanism for getting even which probably isn't a really good reason for having it.

Personally, I think if the grant a continuance for a month, they ought to jail the attorney requesting it for half the time. I think the court would start moving right along.
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