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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (21672)	6/27/2000 2:17:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The system is "terribly flawed" if there is no way an innocent person can be guaranteed protection from execution. The need of society to protect itself from possible murderers is does not supercede or negate the rights of an individual not to be murdered by a system the State maintains. Needs do not surpass an inalienable right. Any "law" to that effect is lawless. Perhaps there is no documented case because once a person is executed there is little motivation and less money to continue to investigate the person's claim of innocence. Ann Coulter Writes: The Bedau-Radelet Study cited such indicia of "innocence" as the executed man's sustained protestations of his innocence (for the record, criminals always claim to be innocent). This is a lie, criminals do not "always" claim to be innocent. There are other lies as well within her highly slanted article. Plus, she is guilty of twisting facts to suit her opinion as much as the professors' study she attacks. Finally, an observation. If she follows the Jewish religion, one of its tenets is" "An eye for an eye." Perhaps an acceptable moral code amongst primitive sheepherders 8,000 years ago, but certainly not one to entertain in the dawning of the 21st Century... Oh... but I forgot... Americans overall are a rather bloodthirsty, vengeful lot, and American culture is not that advanced past the mindless primitive. Perhaps that is why so many Americans support a death penalty in the first place. Since they do not understand needs versus rights, they advocate an immoral "moral code" of values. At one time, the people living during the French Revolution were in "modern times" too.