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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: E who wrote (29978)2/4/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Life is a lottery. It is a lottery to be murdered in the street. It is a lottery to be murdered by the State. The fact that there are people out there who would kill me if they could, especially if I were out alone, at night, somewhere unpopulated, makes me cautious- I don't go out. The death penalty for careless victims changes my behavior- I would be surprised if the death penalty for murder didn't change behavior. But it must be more liberally applied. No matter what your color, or wealth, if you are caught red handed in a murder with special circumstances you should die. Prosecutors should not attempt to reduce the power of the death penalty by using it in borderline cases- or cases where guilt if in doubt- as in those cases where one criminal testifies against another. But in cases where proof is very strong, fry 'em all. I never cared much about the one innocent man, in with the 99 bad ones- because if you let the 99 go and even half kill again then you have 49 more deaths than you should have had.

I see no point in warehousing dangerous predatory individuals. If I had a dog and it bit someone to death I would shoot it. I wouldn't keep it in a cage in solitary confinement for the rest of its life- that would be cruel and expensive.
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