popeye1250
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u Second that...so now I will assume I can continue to hold the views I hold on Capitol punishment? Third. The death penalty has been proven time and time again to NOT be a deterrent in capital crimes, it has aready been shown by Julia to cost far more than incarceration, and it makes us a nation of barbarians, no better than the perpetrators of the crimes themselves. Gotta love a place that executes mentally handicapped people. . This isn't the wild wild west and cowboy nation is over. The asshole from Texas has left the building. Aynne, I don't think the death penalty was supposed to be a "deterrant" to make other people behave themselves but a "punishment" for the offender. It's pretty obvious that anyone who thinks that it's a deterrant is wrong with all the killing going on. I fail to see what purpose it would serve to have Ted Bundy or that clown guy from Illinois (can't remember his name) still in prison to this day. And, if you remember Bundy escaped from prison twice! In cases like that there's no doubt of guilt. But yes, we do need to do something to protect innocent people from being executed , give them "life" to start with and if there is evidence to prove their innocense let them go with a big fat check so that they can buy a yellow corvette, a house on Sebago and live the high life. If they're proved guilty they get a "promotion" to the death penalty. And have it public like the old days when they had public hangings. You could make a "day" of it, hotdogs, games for the kids, frisbees, baloons, radio stations could do a "remote" " (WRKO, comming to you today from the gallows on Boston Common brought to you by Olson Cadillac of Woburn, Mass, Howie Carr drives one of our cars!") and you could have like an "anchor pool" on when the guy dropped, and maybe win a new Cadillac from Olson Cadillac! And for better "action" don't let the guy "drop" but just kick a chair out from underneith him and watch as he does some "skywalking." I don't know why they do executions in private. Lots of people would like to see them public. "Mark Twain" saw his "first hangin'" at age 12.
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