From: den Otter (otter@globalxs.nl)
Date: Tue Mar 10 1998 - 13:10:18 MST
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John K Clark <johnkc@well.com> wrote:
/snip-a-lot/
> By the way, I have no problem with capital punishment (if it is painless) but
> I do think it's a shame to fry perfectly good organs with electricity or
> poison them with cyanide. Waste not want not.
Just out of curiosity: why do you object to painful capital punishment?
Wouldn't it be more logical (and fair) to match the punisment to the crime?
I don't see why a guy who raped tortured and killed several people
should get the same "easy way out" (by lethal injection for example) as
a guy who killed someone painlessly.
By the way, what would the rationale be against corporal punishment for
violent but non-lethal crimes?
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