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Post by Tenarke on Jul 17, 2005 13:38:16 GMT -5
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Post by Tenarke on Jul 19, 2005 17:13:13 GMT -5
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Post by Wyndham on Oct 3, 2006 12:12:40 GMT -5
Wow. Gunman shoots little Amish girls in the back of the head, and then kills himself. Had he lived, I'm guessing he'd be a poster child for the death penalty, no? I mean, I can imagine myself Charles Manson (whacked out on drugs) or one or another of the weird Goths (whacked out on drugs, music and a member of a counter-culture which hates everybody, and has a morbid interest in death). What can you have, however, against a reclusive sect of absolute pacifists, how live in the 19th Century, and sell strawberries on the roadside to make the money to pay their taxes? Bad berries? Hate the movie 'Witness'? Very odd.
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Post by RobertGraves on Oct 3, 2006 15:19:54 GMT -5
Another little girl 7 died this morning.
It certainly is 'evil' beyond belief. His wife's statement suggest he was a good guy and if this is the case? what happened to send him into such a calculated rage.
It makes Manson seem pretty understandable.
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Post by Tenarke on Oct 19, 2007 13:15:38 GMT -5
The death penalty may be approaching its own demise as the Supreme Court ponders which means of terminating life are neither “cruel” nor “unusual”. Perhaps the end is coming, though not with a bang, but a quibble. www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/washington/19scotus.html?th&emc=th Note that several states have suspended executions until the Supreme Court has resolved this riddle. Texas, however, continues to be macho, righteous and lethal.
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Post by RobertGraves on Oct 24, 2007 4:08:11 GMT -5
Big fires in California.
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Post by Tenarke on Oct 30, 2007 14:01:45 GMT -5
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Post by RobertGraves on Oct 31, 2007 13:30:35 GMT -5
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Post by Tenarke on Oct 31, 2007 15:44:15 GMT -5
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Post by RobertGraves on Nov 1, 2007 1:50:16 GMT -5
Symbolism burns.
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Post by Tenarke on Dec 15, 2007 15:41:31 GMT -5
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Post by RobertGraves on Dec 15, 2007 17:58:17 GMT -5
The 'national unease' - what a euphemism.
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Post by Tenarke on Feb 27, 2009 19:22:16 GMT -5
The following article indicates that the death penalty issue is being raised again oddly enough as a result of the financial bind in which the several states now find themselves. Not on ethical grounds or in the interests of justice, but simply because carrying it out costs too much. www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/us/25death.html?_r=1&th&emc=thIt would be wonderful if we were to discard a bad practice simply because it was bad, but if it is to be discarded as too expensive and legally too unwieldy may not be as noble; it at least gets us there.
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Post by Aravis on Mar 3, 2009 13:57:08 GMT -5
True. But then what happens when the economy recovers and people want to reinstate it? Still, a step in the right direction, as you say.
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Post by Tenarke on Sept 20, 2009 18:06:46 GMT -5
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