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To: epicure who wrote (81679)	6/14/2000 9:13:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well said.

To: epicure who wrote (81679)	6/14/2000 9:18:00 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Finality is necessary in order to promote justice. The cost and inefficiency are the price which must be paid to safeguard the transgressor's rights. JLA

To: epicure who wrote (81679)	6/14/2000 9:21:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Life imprisonment is irreversible, too, unless you assume an early discovery of error. Are you going to give that person back the years taken from him? Well, it all hinges on the question of appropriateness of penalty, since we sentence on the assumption of a very high degree of probability that the person is, in fact, guilty. When an offense is particularly heinous, for example, when someone bombs a federal building during business hours, with a day care center inside, then IMO it is appropriate to impose death as a penalty......