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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (29961)	2/3/1999 10:45:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Bob, I agree with you that justice is applied unfairly in the United States. I would also note that in the case of your position on the death penalty, your attitudes reflect a really ethical Christian position. On the other hand, I think it is normal and natural that a population would want to cull its members who prey on others. So looking at from the point of view of preserving the healthier portion of the population, and protecting that population from predators, an argument can be made that the death penalty is good for the species as a whole. I don't think it would ever be a perfect system, but I agree that poor minority defendants should have the same level of quality legal representation if we are to continue to have the death penalty here. I think it would be interesting, though, to try to evaluate whether more innocent people have been put to death through wrongful justice than have been protected by repeat offenders who killed and somehow eventually got out of prison, when the death penalty wasn't enforced.