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To: E who wrote (30589)2/10/1999 2:00:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 108807
 
And a 16 year old who commits a triple murder should not be executed? Why would that be? Anyone over 9 or 10 should be able to form sufficient intent for murder and understand the nature of killing. Of course I don't see any difference between executing adults and children- it is a pure matter of cleaning up the nasty bits after a crime- do you warehouse of do you kill? I find there are too many people in the world- so I think we should get rid of as many as possible- within societally acceptable means. I don't want to live like a rat in an overpopulated cage- and I especially don't want to live with murderers- and of course, violence and over population are related- so killing off a significant portion of the population via the death penalty would probably have ancillary benefits.



To: E who wrote (30589)2/10/1999 5:13:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 108807
 
You proved my point. You could not name one innocent person who was executed in the past 10 or 20 years. You also proved that the present system works because, by your own admission, 76 people sentenced to death were released from prison before they were executed. I'm sure these people were not too happy about being on death row, but the fact remains, no innocent person was executed.

Jim