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To: E who wrote (17065)	4/17/2000 7:20:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I don't think anybody is seriously claiming that the death penalty has significant deterrent value; there is simply no evidence to support this, and that is pretty widely known. The principal arguments for the death penalty are: 1. It's cheaper to kill them than to lock them up. and 2. Revenge is sweet, and it feels good to kill the bastards. Saving money and feeling good are a compelling combination; who cares if a couple of innocents get caught up in the mess? They were probably poor anyway, and very likely minorities, so why worry?

To: E who wrote (17065)	4/17/2000 10:26:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<State of Illinois (? i think) has a moratorium on executions because of discomfiture with the numbers of innocent people executed or on death row. (DNA has exonerated a number of death row inmates. >> More than were executed last year. All from democratic Cook county. <<I figure it's one thing to execute... but it's another, or says another thing about you, that you ridicule and mimic the pleas of the condemned. It says, at best, that you're a callow s**thead.>> No argument on my being a shithead but if everyone who found religion were commuted there wouldn't be a death penalty. Didn't mean to diss the lady as she went to her death, I do hope she went easily into the arms of her Savior for final judgement. I didn't mean to mimic her.