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To: abstract who wrote (76794)	10/12/2004 12:10:40 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

Are you also one of those who see no moral difference between executing dangerous murderers, and killing innocent unborn children in the womb? I used to be against the death penalty until I paid attention to the particulars of a nasty prison riot that left a number of inmates and prison guards dead. Men who had been sentenced to life in prison were the masterminds. They didn't care what happened to them, they had nothing to lose. Putting them behind bars doesn't lessen their propensity to commit murder, nor their ability to commit murder. It just concentrates them in a population of other violent men. Whether to have the death penalty isn't a question for the Texas governor, it's a question for the Texas legislature, and ultimately, the Texan people. The governor carries out the law. The alternative, the only alternative, would be to pardon each and every murderer and commute their sentence. In other words, put them back on the street. Is that preferable?