From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   >>bryan_styble  wrote:   
      
   >>>What's striking about it is the condemned man Carey Grayson's   
   >>>position on the vicious, ultimately dismembering crime:  he claims,   
   >>>perhaps quite honestly, that didn't do the nastiest things to the   
   >>>victim's body nor was ever privy to the gang's motive, [...]   
      
   >>Legally and morally irrelevant.   
      
   >>>>"not his problem".   
      
   >>>Observers might argue that now it's more HIS problem than that of   
   >>>his confederates, given all three managed to get their death   
   >>>sentences later overturned.   
      
   >>Note that the vacation of the death sentences had nothing to do with   
   >>participation levels, but merely the fact that three defendants were   
   >>under 18 at the time of their crime.  Grayson was 19.  If this   
   >>distinction seems silly, that's because it is, but it's settled Eighth   
   >>Amendment law from the Supreme Court, so that's just how it is.   
      
   >Regardless,governments should never be killing unarmed prisoners   
   >at their mercy no matter what the crime or circumstances.   
      
   I have no moral objection to executing the actually guilty.   
      
   Some murderers continue to be real shits despite being in prison, like   
   contacting friends and family of the victim by letter. Execution ends   
   that practice.   
      
   And of course women outside prison propose to them; they always know   
   where they are at night.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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