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To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (1685)	6/23/1998 7:02:00 PM
From: WTMHouston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32882

Lisa: <<I disagree strongly with you>> That is an opinion that you are welcome to have and express: it is not, however, an assertion of fact, which was my point. <<just because you are a lawyer does not mean what you say is always right... morally, intellectually, or legally>> I don't recall saying or implying that it did. I certainly do not think that it is. Let all the world know: I have been wrong in the past -- at least once - although I can't quite recall when...:) I assume that you have been wrong on occassion as well, but I will grant you that I may be assuming too much. <<and if you say morals dont have anything to do with deciding court cases once again I would disagree>> I didn't say that either. Clearly, morals do play a part in deciding some cases simply, and if for no other reason than, because legislators, judges, and juries are human and morals influence, in one way or another, most human behavior. <<try to tell that to someone who requests a stay of execution in a death penalty case as it goes up the chain of command.....>> I have told many people on death row (on occasion, just a few minutes prior to their death) that morals would play and had played very little part in whether they obtained a stay or were executed. Quite frankly, these days a moral argument carries very little, if any, weight when it comes to a court granting or denying a stay of execution. The surest way to get a stay request denied is to simply make a moral argument. Indeed, most courts couldn't care less about moral arguments against death (or most anything else for that matter) since these days many, and perhaps most, judges think that it is immoral not to exceute someone that has received a death penalty from a jury. Morals are in the eyes of the beholder..... After all of this, I find myself wondering (although not asking) just what it was that you disagreed with since I said nothing remotely similar to anything you posted ... Troy P.S. - I do not want to (and will not) get into a debate with anyone over the morality of the death penalty - talk about OT....