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candystripper -> RE: Jury Duty (11/13/2005 3:07:07 PM)
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Not if you assassinate now. After all the victims were. Why not the person who did the killing? Yes, I know in this country the laws will never change the way I'd change them.
Sadly we have laws for the criminals here. Not much for the law abiding citizen.
If you are a homeowner and someone robs you, you take matters into your own hands you are sent to prison for hurting the burglar.
I'd be all for getting rid of the red tape and taking it back a hundred years when if you did a crime you were punished. Of course they could even use today's technology to help them so they get the right person. No mistakes.
sub4hire
Ah....a woman after my own heart. For one thing, i have never understood why executions are carried out in secrecy if doing them is supposed to deter crime. Why not draw and quarter the bastard in a public arena and sell tickets, televise, etc.
There is only one major problem; some people on death row are innocent. When the US Supreme Court outlawed the execution of the mentally retarded, the state of Florida tested its death row inmates and more than half were found to be retarded. Since state-paid psychiatrists did the testing, it's apparent that the mentally retarded are over-represented on Florida's death row.
One of my old bosses told me this happens because a crime occurs, people are afraid, so the police drag in the local mental defective and feed him the details of the crime and get a confession. They make no real effort to find the killer; that may be impossible and such a result is intolerable to the community. Then of course, a public defender represents them. In one memorable case, the US Supreme Court ruled that a lawyer who SLEPT through most of the trial was not "incompetent counsel" and the defendant was denied a new trial.
There is another problem as well. The victim's family are not lawyers and every time an execution date is set, they go through hell, believing the killer of their loved one will die on that date. However, deaths usually occur only after an execution date has been set several times...they are on a roller coaster, for many years, without any sense to it.
So i agree with FlButtSlut; the death penalty should be repealed. i also agree with her that prision conditions have gotten out of hand and that "hard time" should mean just that; evven if it's a pointless task of breaking rocks; prisioners should work -- hard -- for their entire sentences.
People with sentences that dictate they will eventually be released should be able to get a GED for free in prision, but paying for college degrees is too much. i like that show "Parole Board" on A & E, and one prisioner had become a licensed optometrist! In prision! That offends me as a taxpayer and as a member of the community.
candystripper
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