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To: kash johal who wrote (126824)	10/25/2000 4:58:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577071

OT Then our positions are not too different. I think abortion should be legal. I personally find it abhorrent, based on my personal beliefs. Kash, We both seem to have a somewhat libertarian leaning in this area. I think abortion should be illegal, but thats because I see abortion as something more then just immoral. As for the death penalty - I was talking about the issue more in a theoretical sense. In practice a lot of money is spent and I suspect you may be correct that somtimes innocent people are executed. I think with all of the appeals available that these mistaken executions would be very rare, but is it something that almost never happens or is it just something that happens occationally? I do think that the death penalty is almost useless to deter killings commited in fits of rage (and it often would not be applied in those cases anyway), but it may deter some criminals who have commited lesser crimes from killing thier victims to eliminate the witness. If the death penalty could be both efficently and fairly applied, and somehow it could be made so that it would never be used against some one who is innocent would you support (or atleast accept) it then? In other words are you opposed to it in theory (even with an almost perfect system) or are you only against the way it has been implimented? Tim