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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (31885)	1/12/2003 9:18:51 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

I would have much preferred he looked at individual cases before commuting everyone but there is no doubt that there were and are people on death row who were innocent. I believe he only pardoned 4 who were proven innocent is that correct? And then just commuted everyone else to life? Personally I have no problem with getting rid of the death penalty if life truly meant life as in you leave here in a hearse. In WI I think I read somewhere that the average life sentence is about 13 years served and that is obscene.

To: Ish who wrote (31885)	1/12/2003 9:45:29 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Ish, Ryan must be a Clintonite, and is trying to prove that he can pardon worse criminals than billy boy did. Down here, we haven't been able to read all of the stunts he has pulled, but from what I have seen, he must be on the far side of crazy.

To: Ish who wrote (31885)	1/12/2003 10:26:57 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Did you read George Bush's book "A Charge to Keep?" In that he explains why he made certain life and death decisions for death row prisoners. There were two basic principles, one of which was "did the inmate receive the full consideration of the law." It seems like a much better principle than the one used by Ryan to let all those guys out. I'm not against the death penalty, but on one hand I wonder if it's worth the perpetual battle over it. Life without parole is a pretty severe sentence, and unlike death it's undoable. Ryan's argument that only two percent of the perps get the death penalty while 98 percent get sometimes much less carries no weight with me. However, there should be some comparability between sentences. I don't like to hear prosecutors like Janet Reno declaring for political purposes "We WILL seek the death penalty [for the perps at Oklahoma City, unknown at the time]." She sure didn't mind applying it to an evil white guy, but you sure hear a lot of whining about the consequences facing the beltway sniper.