From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 19:43:18 MST
...How much depends on whether you think all murderers are 'bad' (I'm
not talking about those who kill in self-defense or by accident here) or
all murderers are 'mad', as in, insane? If you think all murderers are
psychiatrically disturbed (and some people would say that to
deliberately use physical violence at all without provocation betrays
mental illness) then is it fair to execute?
I mean, what we are doing here guys, is _eugenics_. We're either
executing the 'bad' or the 'mad', and removing those genes from the gene
pool, quite deliberately and with premeditation. It's a heavy concept.
My main problem with it is I know how easy it can be to get 'set up', ie
someone makes it look like you committed a crime, and you take the
punishment for that. I'm not convinced that in all cases we can be sure
enough to know we've got the right guy...
I'd be interested to know how a convicted killer can kill again, as I
thought 'convicted' implied you were a convict, ie in prison? If proven
convicted killers are being released, that's plain dumb, but if they're
in there killing each other, I suppose it saves us the trouble and I'd
tend to leave them to it, y'know.
Ramonsky
John K Clark wrote:
>"Alex Ramonsky" <alex@ramonsky.com> Wrote:
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>Yep it's theoretically possible. But it's not only possible it has actually
>happened that people CONVICTED of murder have murdered again, and to my
>mind that is just as big a failure of the law. In 1984, the last year I
>could find statistics, 810 convicted murders later killed another 821
>persons. If you placed roadblocks in front of their execution that
>makes _you_ a murderer of 821 innocent people.
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