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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Bill who wrote (315)1/15/2003 2:45:36 PM
From: marcos  Respond to of 828
 
This is sort of an appendage to the Dubya thread, isn't it ... aargh, i never thought of that, endless one-line jabs posing as comment but really a post-modern kind of dance

You two are distorting LPS5's position ... which is, if i may take the liberty of paraphrasing it, that the state should and must be held to a higher standard than is the individual citizen ... like, duh ... nowhere did he advocate vigilantism

Btw, i heard yesterday that the cost of imprisonment in the US is around usd40k per prisoner per annum ... cost of capital crimes trial roughly usd3m, non-capital criminal trials roughly one-third that or less .. 'maybe half a million' ..... this from a guy with some degree of knowledge in the matter, he is a crown prosecutor here