From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   >   
   > In the previous article, 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.   
      
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   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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