XPost: alt.activism.death-penalty, talk.politics, alt.law-enforcement   
   XPost: alt.true-crime   
   From: swayser@optonline.net   
      
   Critter wrote:   
    >>> Both life in prison without parole, and the death penalty are   
    >>> vile punishments.  Everyone should be eligible for parole after   
    >>> ten years, but parole boards should consider the nature of the   
    >>> crimes comitted, as well as prison record and interviews, and   
    >>> murderers paroled after 10 years would be few and far between, if   
    >>> any at all.   
    >>   
    >> I suppose if you were the parent of 5 children (including a mix of   
    >> infants, toddlers, juveniles & adolescents) and someone abducted   
    >> them all, subsequently raped them, skinned them alive, performed   
    >> "surgery" on them without anesthesia and posted pictures of their   
    >> humiliation where billions of people could see them, 10 years would   
    >> seem fair to you.  If this is true and you haven't already done so,   
    >> may you never have children.   
    >   
    > Quit babbling incoherently. No-one has ever committed such a crime in   
    > recent years, except for various governments. Most murders in the US   
    > are crimes of passion, or some other financial dispute or something   
    > like that. Most people who are murdered are killed by someone who   
    > knew them closely.   
    >   
    > Lets not be irrational about it.   
    >   
   He may have been a bit out of line, but not by much. Seems to me I heard   
   something about a woman drowning her 5 young children. And wasn't there   
   something about a pair of snipers in the Washington area? And something   
   called Woodbine just popped into my head. Somehow the death penalty   
   seems appropriate in these cases, or at least life w/o parole in the   
   child slaughter case.   
      
   --   
   If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an   
   equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.   
   Carl Schurz (1829-1906)   
      
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