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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: E who wrote (30552)2/9/1999 8:45:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
E,

Many years ago I recall somebody asking my grandfather, a very conservative man, how he felt about the death penalty. He replied that it was unacceptable in any civilized society. Asked why, he replied "because sometimes they get the wrong guy". Which stopped the argument, as it always must.

I have always thought that a condition for the imposition of the death penalty be that if the individual was later proven innocent, the judge and jury should be promptly executed. I suspect that such a requirement might significantly change the proceedings.

Refusing to put anyone to death is simply recognition of our own fallibility. Who can argue with that?

Steve
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