From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   So could other methods that,simply by falling short of outright   
   killing,are preferable.   
      
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