peacefulplace -> RE: Murder vs. Adultery (9/24/2010 4:26:09 PM)
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Getting back to the original post... Anyone who seriously considers anything that the Holocaust denying, teenage homosexual hanging, secretly nuclear weapons gathering Ahmadinejad has to say is as crazy as he is. Stoning someone to death on (probably fabricated) charges of what amounts to nothing more than fucking around is in absolutely no way equitable to killing someone for planning a murder. Iran needs to shut its fat, human rights abusing mouth. In his twisted mind, I am sure that Ahmadinejad equates stepping out on your husband with killing your husband, which shows how sick his senses of masculinity and masculine/ feminine honor are. The question with this execution in VA is one of fairness, though, as all executions are. When was the last time someone of wealth was executed? How come women routinely serve longer sentences for crimes against men (often men who are, in turn, attempting to kill the women through constant abuse)? When was the last time a white person was executed for killing a black person? How about comparing the statistics to the answers to these sorts of questions? If someone were attacking another person, much less someone I love, in front of me, would I use deadly force to stop that person if I thought it were warranted? Oh, absolutley!! However, judges, juries, prosecutors, defense attorneys all show up after the fact and then someone winds up on death row. It is too much like "state sanctioned murder," although I do not exactly think of it in those terms. I think, "Could I live with myself if I were the doctor who pumped those chemicals into the inmates' arms?" Regardless of what they have done, the answer is no. Harry Blackmun said it best: "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death." In the U.S., the death penalty works like a machine. We do not need more dehumanization in this country or this world.
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