Text 33139, 51 rader
Skriven 2006-07-08 19:41:01 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
  Kommentar till text 33128 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
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 ST>> The Death penalty serves a greater good, and I'm glad we have it.
 BF>> What good does it do? Does it prevent others from committing crimes?

 FS> It has an excellent record of preventing recidivism ...

So has locking them up for life....

 BF>> No, I don't but by killing them shows that you aren't any better then
 BF>> they.

 FS> While I am against the death penalty I shed no tears for those who *are*
 FS> legally executed here.  They've all had trials as well as *years* of
 FS> appeals.  This is completely unlike the procedure in uncivilized nations
 FS> in which a person is killed without trial ...

And how many have after they have been killed been found innocent?
If you have them locked up it's just to release them but you can't wake the
dead.
We've had cases like that here as well where a girl accused her father of rape.
Six years later she said she had lied so he did six years for nothing.

 ST>> Again, you can't possibly compare the slaughter of innocent men, women
 ST>> and children to our death penalty.

 BF>> Why not? The result is the same. They die. Killed by the government. To
 BF>> Saddam they were criminals.
 BF>> Same shift, different places different laws.

 FS> "To Saddam they were criminals"!!!  How can anyone respond to such an
 FS> utterly thoughtless claim?!!?!?!

And how wold you have said it?
In his (sick) eyes they were insurgents, just as you see ObL and his followers.
You have your laws and he had his, what's so difficult with that?
We have laws against executing people while you have laws for that we don't
understand.
And isn't USA the only civilized country that have death penalty?

 ST>> You are writing as though
 ST>> you support the atrocities committed against the Kurds by Saddam.

 BF>> Then you are reading what I say like the devil is reading the Bible.

 FS> When you equate American justice to Saddam's "justice" you *do* support
 FS> Saddam's crimes ...

No, and I don't support your justice about death penalty either.

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