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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (4221)	2/2/1998 4:54:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 20981

alexa: I personally believe that all people who support the death penalty have no regard for the sanctity of the innocent individual. There ARE innocents on death row -- over 10 were proven innocent in just the last few years, at least one after two stays of execution. It has been proven that innocents were gassed, electrocuted, hung or shot in the past. If the death penalty were perfect: say truth drug induced confession, then I might support it. But having been involved with the "justice" system on several occassions I can tell you I would never trust my life to twelve yokels swayed by emotion, a silver-tongued politically hungry prosecutor, or a process that is breaking down right before our eyes. I have no faith in the justice system from personal experience. And I say it is WRONG to execute one innocent person to get back at the other 99 who are guilty. Such a system is immoral and must be destroyed. Public opnion be damned. If 73% of the public believed in a return to discrimination and segregation for blacks would that mean it 's moral or right? Of course not. The same holds true of killing an innocent individual who has become a death row victim of the courts. Father Terrence