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Originally Posted by Jim O
I thoroughly respect your opinion, Pete. Perhaps it's my personal discomfort with the death penalty in general that's speaking, but the image of getting an 85-90 year old man out of his wheelchair, carrying him up the gallows steps, and holding him up while the noose is tightened around his neck and the trapdoor is sprung seems rather distasteful to me on a gut level. Of course I recognize that is a thoroughly emotional response on my part, and that's why it's best that I have never been a "policy maker".
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I agree with both of you... strange, but one part of me keep saying that justice may be not quick - BUT MUST BE DONE.
And another is visualising nursing home, drooling elderly bloke led to the gallows...
I'm against death penalty in any time, country and form.
The main principle of "state revange", which death penalty essentially is, would be that executed criminal must be fully conscious and healthy.
I know, all of us read about the cases, when convicted to death penalty criminal was undergoing complicated operation costing taxpayers a fortune, just to walk him in a good shape onto the gallows.
I think that 90 years old bloke just doesn't give a f...k.(please forgive me this expression).
I would just lock him in a cell and show him 12 hours a day documentaries from Belsen Bergen, Mauthausen after liberation and so on.
This would be more appropriate penalty.
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