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To: E who wrote (15571)6/26/2002 1:36:10 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
lost support, both logical, judicial and public.
Or maybe not.

In 1997, 75 percent said they believed in the death penalty and only 22 percent opposed it.
uaa.alaska.edu

Recent Tennessee poll results

Do you support the death penalty?

Yes
74.59 %( 20301 out of 27216 voted)
No
25.41 %( 6915 out of 27216 voted)

prodeathpenalty.com

DNA testing? Given that it could reliably identify killers in some cases, it can be justification for a death penalty when it is available.

How about a law requiring RELIABLE PHYSICAL evidence backing all DP impositions?



To: E who wrote (15571)6/26/2002 3:07:27 PM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 21057
 
everyone holds conflicting views all the time. It's part of the human condition

The sickness is not in having incompletely thought out ideas or conflicting pieces of information but in the deluding of oneself that that there is no conflict by compartmentalizing each contradictory fragment in it's own mental image and flipping between them.

TP