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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (67009)	2/13/2001 11:57:41 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122088

How do you know that is not a chain letter hoax? w3.gwis.com snopes2.com

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (67009)	2/14/2001 12:04:51 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122088

Just found it: Murder of Jamie Bulger snopes2.com >Is there a right answer in all this? Only one -- that it makes no sense to forward a call to arms agitating for a course of action that has already been ruled out. Venables and Thompson will likely be released within the next few months, and they have been granted lifetime anonymity. All the e-petitions in the world cannot change that. < ------------------------- Current Urban Legends and Netlore snopes2.com

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (67009)	2/14/2001 11:45:06 AM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122088

I don't think any international petitions will work. Look at the efforts many Canadians and others made in petitioning George W. on executing children and the mentally infirm. They boys were under the age of majority and the rule of law was applied in the U.K. The rule of law applies to all minors, regardless of an appearance that "they knew what they did was wrong". What's your solution? Is it the George W. one? I've always viewed execution as state-sanctioned murder. It's barbaric and fails as a deterrent. It's pure revenge. The state takes revenge... Would we then expect then any better from the general public? What kind of higher role model (e.g. George W.) is this? I don't want a justice system based on revenge. I say that for executions to be effective, they must be made public and gruesome (e.g. Medieval style drawing and quartering, followed by decapitation). Never mind hiding the condemned in a room and injecting them with designer drugs. To be effective as a deterrent (as the protagonists say it is), the consequences must be made viscerally obvious to the prospective criminals.