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- From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
- Subject: Re: A Stolen Life, A Dying Soul
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:27:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.145643.4764@memstvx1.memst.edu>, kebarnes@memstvx1.memst.edu writes...
- >In article <nate.990@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>,
- >nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu
- >>(Nathan Engle) [Our intelligent-liberal-in-residence] wrote:
- >> I think that your gut reaction may lead you to wish for something less
- >> than purely poetic justice. IMHO the most appropriate thing that could be
- >> done would be to throw those three guys and a case of A1 sauce into a cell
- >> with Jeffery Dahmer. (There you go, Simon, you weren't nearly as crude
- >> as me)
- >>
- >> Nathan Engle Software Juggler
- >
- >What are we to make of the case of Wesley Allan Dodd, convicted serial
- >child rapist-murderer in Washington state who says he wishes to
- >be executed by hanging, since that is what he did to the 4-year-old
- >boy who was his last victim?
- >
- >I find it discouraging that the ACLU wishes to contest this proposal,
- >and that the only way it seems for someone such as Dodd to be put
- >out of his own misery and everyone else's is for him to request that
- >the execution be carried out, ala: Gary Gilmore's request for a
- >Utah firing squad.
-
- Yes. If anyone is being cruel and unusual, it has to be the ACLU,
- bouncing those on deathrow back and forth as their political
- playthings.
-
- >
- >Does execution deter?
- >If we were to execute any criminal who murdered while committing
- >another felony, we could have our answer. If there were fewer
- >murders associated with the commission of felonies, the effect
- >of such a law could readily be demonstrated. The necessity
- >of convicting the accused twice, first of the felony, and then the
- >capital murder charge, should add an extra measure of protection
- >against executing the innocent. It would be a good experiment to
- >try, and might ease jail overcrowding :-}.
-
- I've always believed that it would be far more of a deterrent to
- televise executions. It may seem barbaric and inhuman, but I really
- believe it would have a lasting effect on those who watched.
- >
- >
- >For the sake of the victims now, and in the future, our national
- >"soul" must be found, and healed. And fast.
-
- Yup. And one doesn't have to force religion on anyone to achieve this,
- IMHO.
-
- It makes good common sense.
-
- >
- >[Standard disclaimers appply.]
- >
- >--
- >*.x,*dna**************************************************************
- >*(==) Ken Barnes, LifeSci Bldg. *
- >* \' KEBARNES@memstvx1.memst.edu *
- >*(-)**Memphis,TN********75320,711@compuserve.com**********************
- >"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged
- >to stick to possibilities, Truth isn't."--Mark Twain
-
- Jim Graham
-
- -> ->Disclaimer: I do not speak for my company. <- <-
- Neither do they speak for me.
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