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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (114113)	2/1/2008 4:24:43 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Edit: thats not the way I remember it.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (114113)	2/1/2008 4:41:25 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

You should be able to determine from the first two paragraphs that, 1) I believe the term 'death penalty' to be illogical legal language. I can't conceive of death as any more a penalty than birth is and 2) The use of or threat of death as a punishment can only be represented by the most reprehensible of human emotions, certainly not logical or practical solutions to anything and to be used by any justice system I could support. 3) If you are looking at death as an immoral treatment then you must compare it with other treatments, as I demonstrated for you. Forcing someone to die at the end of many years of being chained in cages with heinous and brutal convicts is a treatment. Both are death sentences. What do you mean by 'effectiveness'? Effectiveness has to do with achieving something. 1..."The 'death penalty' is a misnomer as far as I am concerned because death is a natural outcome of life for all of us, no less good and no more evil than birth. 2...Death as a Penalty for one’s conduct carries with it certain connotations: Revenge, Vendetta, pay back, Cruel Unusual, Degrading Punishment, giving up, an imperfect trial system or carrying the risk of unjustly killing someone wrongfully convicted. Any of that lacks the element of consideration and mercy in judgment that lifts human beings to noble status. " Is death a penalty, no. Is death bad, no it is natural and unavoidable fact of the human condition. Is death immoral, no for the same reasons. Is killing another immoral, ... depends.