On Sep 23, 10:20*am, rosie > wrote:
> On Sep 23, 11:55*am, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
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> > > On Sep 23, 11:35*am, Christopher *Helms > wrote:
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> > > > On Sep 22, 11:16*pm, "DavidW" > wrote:
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> > > > > Mark Thorson wrote:
> > > > > > All it takes is one jerk to ruin it for everybody.
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> > > > > >http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2040000
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> > > > > They could simply place restrictions on it instead.
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> > > > It's Texas. Be grateful that the guy they executed was actually
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> > > I look for the day when the death penalty is totally abolished.
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> > I look for the day when we don't have to wait years and years before
> > we execute. I suppose if you husband and kids were brutally murdered,
> > you'd still want the killer to get life in prison? Three meals a day,
> > all the sex they want, drugs, tv...
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> I think I would be devestated if something of that sort happened.
> However, I do not believe death penalty is the way to deal with a
> crime. We all die anyway, if we can give them life with out parole, it
> can be pretty bad. As for the food, I doubt very much if iit is all
> that tasty. Sex? Well.. I am not sure if it is all that pleasant in
> prison.And on a practical note, it costs more to go through a death
> penalty phase with all the hoopla that goes with it than it does to
> house them the rest of their lives.

I think the average cost to house a criminal is around $50K a year. If
the perp was 21 when he murdered an entire family just for fun of it
and he lives to be 90...well, you do the math. We have become so soft
on crime it's disgusting. I wonder if you're family was brutally
killed, would you forgive the guy and say...let's just let him live
out his life in a warm cell with three squares a day? Career criminals
actually like jail. If someone killed my family, I'd be in line to
pull the latch and I would never forgive them.