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Old Aug 13, 2007, 11:21 am   #8 (permalink) (top)
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I'm only for capital punishment if it is necessary for
the safety of the public, such as in a place
where the prisons are too shoddy to succesfully keep a
murderer from escaping, or maybe a person who has committed
a heinous crime and is too well connected and powerful
to actually be kept in prison.
Capital punishment is not safe or unsafe to the public. It is public-funded murder of people in prison. It's enforcement of our cultural value that killing solves our problems and makes us safe. Some of the biggest murderers in the land are in Washington or in tall, respectable office buildings.

Grandpa h.


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