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To: Neocon who wrote (81677)6/14/2000 9:07:00 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 108807
 
Better not to make decisions that are irreversible when such finality is unnecessary and extremely and inefficiently costly, imo.



To: Neocon who wrote (81677)6/14/2000 9:17:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 

In either case, despite care, a death was inadvertently caused.


Not true. An execution can never be a death inadvertently caused. Nobody drives a car intending to kill; all executions are intended to kill.

If execution was demonstrably necessary, or if there were some measurable practical benefit to be gained by it, one might think it sufficiently important to justify the occasional mistake. I have seen no convincing argument supporting either of those contentions.